Can you differentiate the Publishing sites with other available sites options while creating the site.?

Hi, one of the most important differences between the publishing and non-publishing site are that you have a lot more workflow capabilities and ribbon options to support an author / editor scenario. In addition you can work with publishing templates and sites where you can assign a custom CSS without the need of adding it with SharePoint Designer. You can find futher valuable information on this older blog entry: http://blogs.msdn.com/b/mossbiz/archive/2009/06/23/clarifications-collaboration-vs-publishing.aspx br, patrick follow my blog http://patrick.lamber.blogspot.com to get additional tips and information about SharePoint, Project and ASP.NET

"one of the most important differences between the publishing and non-publishing site are that you have a lot more workflow capabilities and ribbon options to support an author / editor scenario" Dont agree with this explanation, when you activate Publishing Features there are a lot of business in behind that are change on the SharePoint Site. One of the improvemente you can find when activate the Publishing is the ability to use Web Content Management and create custom Page Layouts and change the way you can mange and display the information. What you can do with WCM, here you can manage Content and how this content will be shared to all users, you can work with Content types and associate with Pages to change and categorize you information and display to public, i use for SharePoint internet Site because is a very easy way to users create new content and display to public this information, there another features you can use with publishing feature like active the Output Cache this feature will improve performance in the page load because the webpart, metadata and page will be stored in cache, you can also define if you want to manage the profiles for this cache, anonymous access or authenticated users. Another change you have when you activate the Publishing feature is the navigation menu options, this new options will help manage and how to display the info in a very easy way.... Customizing sites and pages http://office.microsoft.com/en-us/sharepoint-server-help/CH010178495.aspx?CTT=97 Customizing and Branding Web Content Management-Enabled SharePoint Sites (Part 1 of 3): Understanding Web Content Management and the Default Features http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/aa830818(v=office.12).aspx How to Optimize a SharePoint Server 2007 Web Content Management Site for Performance http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/bb727371(v=office.12).aspx This is a litle overview of the publishing features but you can find more in the links i shared... Andr Lage Microsoft SharePoint, CRM and Sybase Consultant Blog:http://aaclage.blogspot.com Codeplex:http://spupload.codeplex.com/http://simplecamlsearch.codeplex.com/

Thanks for ur valuable reply.