Once your site configuration properties, site categories, and shareable type components are defined, business users can begin creating sites using Site Administration in the Business Control Center. When you create a site in Site Administration, you are adding a siteConfiguration item to the Site repository. Each siteConfiguration item has a unique ID that identifies it. Sites are deployed assets and must go through the standard CA process to deploy them to the production instance (create a project for the new sites, create the sites, review the project, and deploy it to production).
Many site configuration properties point to other resources, which may be either repository items like catalogs and price lists, or file-based assets like images and resource bundles. These other resources must exist before the site can be fully functional and tested. Also, business users will need to know how to reference them (for example, they will need the paths to image files and resource bundles).
If you are converting an existing non-multisite application to multisite, you must start by creating a site configuration item that represents the existing application. See Initial Steps to Converting an Existing Non-Multisite Application to Multisite for detailed instructions.
