There are several site templates available that let you create a new SharePoint 2010 site. This video shows a couple of different ways of how you can create a site, within a site collection, using those templates.

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.

Publishing sites are usually used to publish content on a large Intranet or an Internet site. There are plenty of consumers for this type of site and only a few contributors. On the other hand, a Team site has many contributors who collaborate effectively with each other on documents, announcements, and other artificats. This video shows the differences between the two types of sites.

Meeting workspaces are similar to sites in SharePoint, but provide additional functionality such as a strong tie-in to Outlook and the ability to create and link meetings to SharePoint events list. Learn about these things and more by watching this video

Learn how to create SharePoint Sites using SharePoint Designer. Also, this video shows how to create an Empty Web Site – site without a SharePoint Template applied to it and then letting the end user apply the template through the browser.

Creating a Blogging site in SharePoint is now possible. Use this type of site to host internal or external blogs

SharePoint comes with multiple site templates. This video shows how to create a SharePoint site using those templates