Updated: September 27, 2011

This section provides information that helps IT pros plan publishing sites by using Microsoft SharePoint Server 2010 features.

In this section:

• Publishing features overview (SharePoint Server 2010) describes the features that become available when publishing is enabled at the site collection and site levels for a nonpublishing site. This article also describes any dependencies between features, and it lists changes to the user interface that occur when publishing is enabled.

• Plan Web pages (SharePoint Server 2010) first introduces the elements of Web pages: master pages, page layouts, content pages, style sheets, Web Parts, Web Part zones, and server field controls. Next, this article provides guidance about how to plan each element of the Web pages in your publishing site.

• Plan Web page authoring (SharePoint Server 2010) describes the steps that are involved in planning how Web pages are authored.

• Plan content approval and scheduling (SharePoint Server 2010) contains general guidance about how to plan content approval and scheduling for use with SharePoint Server 2010 publishing sites.

• Plan for caching and performance (SharePoint Server 2010) provides information about how and when to use the BLOB cache, and it lists key considerations for planning to use it. This article also describes performance considerations for when to use Bit Rate Throttling, and it describes the limitations of upload file size restrictions.

• Plan for large Pages libraries (SharePoint Server 2010) describes the use of large Pages libraries in SharePoint Server 2010 publishing sites. Also, this article provides information to help you determine whether to use large Pages libraries with your publishing solution and information about how to plan for them.

• Content deployment overview (SharePoint Server 2010) provides an overview of the content deployment feature, describes how it works, and lists important considerations for using content deployment with your publishing solution.

• Plan content deployment (SharePoint Server 2010) discusses how to plan for using content deployment with your publishing solution.

• Design content deployment topology (SharePoint Server 2010) describes elements of topologies designed for content deployment and illustrates typical content deployment topologies.

• Variations overview (SharePoint Server 2010) provides an overview of the variations feature. It describes the elements of the variations feature, provides an overview of site and page creation for variation sites, lists some of the limitations of variations, and describes scenarios for using variations in SharePoint Server 2010

• Plan variations (SharePoint Server 2010) provides information about important items that you should consider when you are using variations in publishing sites, and it describes the tasks that are involved in planning a solution that uses variations in SharePoint Server 2010.

• Variations design considerations (SharePoint Server 2010) provides design considerations for planning a variations infrastructure within a publishing environment, and makes recommendations about how to approach common scenarios.

• Plan information architecture for Web content management (SharePoint Server 2010) provides general recommendations for planning the information architecture for a Web content management solution.

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