Customizing and Branding Web Content Management-Enabled SharePoint Sites (Part 3 of 3): Creating and Configuring WCM-Enabled Sites

Introduction to Creating and Configuring WCM–Enabled Sites
Web content management (WCM) is enabled in Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007 through a set of features—many of which rely on Microsoft Windows SharePoint Services 3.0—that are discussed in the first article of this series. The second article discussed the extensibility options you have as a developer. (For links to the first two articles in this series, see Additional Resources.) To conclude this series, I take an administrator's approach to WCM. Starting with the steps to create an Internet site, I show you how to configure and tune your site for anonymous access and forms authentication. I also demonstrate how you can create and configure site variations.

Creating a Publishing Portal
A company typically hosts an Internet site in its own site collection and a dedicated Microsoft Internet Information Services (IIS) Web site (a Web application). The steps to create a site are not much different from the steps you take to create team sites or a portal site. You actually make the decision very late in the process at the level of the site template you select. For an Internet site, you select the Publishing Portal template.

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