In this recipe, we will create a new publishing site, and get familiar with creating new web pages. In the world of Web Content Management, web pages are created and edited by content authors and then must be published by web masters before the page actually becomes visible to the public. In-between is a special publishing approval workflow (not like the out-of-the-box approval workflow that we saw back in Chapter 7, Web Content Management) that kicks off to notify the approver (for example, the web master) and allows him/her to accept or reject the request to publish the page.
Carry out the following steps in order to create a site collection for this chapter:
Go to Central Administration and click on the link for Create Site Collections.
Ensure that the correct web application is selected. Enter Chapter 8 for the title and Chapter8 in the textbox for the URL.
In the Template Selection section, choose the Publishing tab and select the Publishing Portal...