hi all, Please tell me the process of creating Site Definition in SharePoint.... thanks in advance.....

Hi, I have included a link to Andrew Connells post on using a minimal publishing master Using a Minimal Publishing Site Definition in the field Earlier this year I blogged about how you don't need to create site definitions. The gist of that post was this: Custom site definitions are not very flexible and hard to create/debug. Create lightweight site definitions; in essence copies of Blank Site with a new name & ID, but nothing else. Create Features and staple them to the new site definition you just created. This process allows for effectively changing the site definition down the road via adding/removing stapling Features. I don't take the same approach as some others who've blogged. Funny... one guy got a ton of feedback for his black/white post on this subject a month or so ago and then rewrite the post. Quite amusing it looks almost identical to mine earlier this year... even the title is very similar! At any rate, I still get questions about how I like to create new Publishing sites. Seems people have taken that blog post I did earlier this year along with Ch5 in my book that demonstrates how to create what I call a "Minimal Publishing Portal" site definition, and taken these positions a bit too literally. So... let me try to clear it up... Check out the rest of the blog @ http://www.andrewconnell.com/blog/archive/2008/12/06/Using-a-Minimal-Publishing-Site-Definition-in-the-field.aspx How to cteate a custom site definition http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms454677.aspx Creating a site definition from an existing site definition http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/dd587280(office.11).aspx Cheers, -Ivan Ivan Sanders My LinkedIn Profile, My Blog, @iasanders.