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# About Webs and subwebs

When working with a large Web site, it's often easier to break up the site into smaller subwebs. A subweb is a complete Microsoft FrontPage-based Web site that is located in a subdirectory of the root Web site or of another subweb. Each subweb can have many levels of subdirectories.

A root Web site is an FrontPage-based Web site that is the top-level content directory of a Web server or, in a multi-hosting environment, of a virtual Web server. The content of the root Web site can be contained in many levels of subdirectories. However, there is only one root Web site per Web server or virtual server.

For example, if a company has an intranet, a good strategy is to have a subweb for each major department. That way, each group can manage their own site and the main home page in the parent Web site can provide links among the departmental sites.

There are several benefits to setting up your Web sites with subwebs:

- Each subweb can be maintained by a different owner.
- Each subweb can maintain separate security settings.
- Performance can improve, because the time required to recalculate hyperlinks is directly proportional to the number and size of the documents stored in a single Web.

Even though subwebs appear below other Web sites in the Web server's file system and URL space, the content of a subweb is not included in its parent Web site. An author of an FrontPage-based Web site does not automatically have permission to edit any of its subwebs, and users cannot browse from a parent Web site to a subweb. FrontPage Server Extensions 2002 maintains this separation of content automatically.

| About managing subwebs

| Should I create a subweb or a virtual server?