This post was most recently updated on September 25th, 2017
In SharePoint 2013 when you create new site there are four site template selection are there
- Collaboration
- Publishing
- Enterprise
- Duet Enterprise
Team Site – Team site is present in collaboration site template. It is simple site template designed to help a group of people (a team) work together to exchange information and ideas. It’s usually lightly branded (themed), but overall looks and acts like “SharePoint” should.
In team site basic site collection are Site Assets, Site pages and one document library
Team site usually lightly branded mean here no option to create pages from page layout so less branding is posible
Even if in Team site you can also activate the publishing features from site collection.
To Activating the SharePoint Server Publishing Infrastructure feature adds the Administrative links on the Site Settings page, including the ability to manage Master Pages for both publishing and non-publishing Web sites, Navigation, Searchable columns, Content and Structure, Content and Structure Logs, Variations and Translatable columns.
Publishing Site – Team site is present in publishing site template. Its widely used site template in SharePoint. Publishing site similar to the collaboration portal, but more “blank slate”, mean more designed to be customized to your heart’s content.
In publishing site basic site collection are images, document library and workflow task
In publishing site more branding is possible because here we create page from page layout so it mostly use public facing site or an extranet that is exposed to the internet.
