What is the use of site in Sharepoint 2010?

What is the use of site in Sharepoint 2010?

- Sites: this is a collection of pages, lists and libraries and these are configures for the purpose of showing something on the web front.

- This can consists of sub-sites and they can be divided further in a hierarchical fashion.

- The site can be created according to pre-defined templates and the functionalities provided with it or it can be created from scratch.

- The site can be in the form of a blog or a team collaborative site or document workspace or any other groupwork sites.

- Sites have all the functionality that is given in a normal web page. It has navigation, themes, permission, workflows and ability to configure and customize.