This video shows how the page publishing process works in a site created using ‘Publishing Site with Workflow’ site template. The publishing pages that are used to present content on a publishing site go through an approval workflow process before they are displayed to the visitors of the site. Members of the site are the ones creating the content while the Approvers are the people who approve/reject the content. You will see the whole lifecycle of this process in this video.

A Publishing Portal is based upon the Publishing Site template provided with SharePoint. Publishing sites are different from Team sites. Team sites generally have a large amount of contributors while a publishing site’s content is controlled by a few contributors and there is a large number of consumers for the site’s content. Publishing sites are used for creating internet sites or large divisional intranet sites.