Understanding publishing

If your organization has SharePoint Server, either the Standard or the…Enterprise Edition, some of your sites may be using something called the…Publishing feature in SharePoint.…You'll also hear the phrase Web Content Management applied to the same idea.…This is not something you use on every site.…It's something that you use on sites intended for a large group of people where…you need a lot more control over what your Web pages look like.…Now, what I'm looking at here is a site template called the Publishing Portal,…pretty much as it looks immediately after it's created.…

The Publishing Portal is a site intended for either a large intranet or a…public Internet site.…As such, it's little bland to begin with.…I'm logged on with high permissions, so I still have a Site Actions menu.…I've got a lot of options in my Site Actions menu.…But I do still have the ability to edit the page, for example.…However, if I shift into Edit mode, while it might immediately look very…similar, there's actually a big difference in what's happening here.…