Creating the community site
To get started we will need to provision a new site collection using the Team Site Template, activate the supporting features, and create a landing page to support our community.
In this case I have selected a Team Site Template because it is a good generic building block for sites like this, and it can also be used to create Web Templates that can be used to provision additional sites.
Activating supporting features
After choosing a site template and provisioning the site collection, the next step is to activate the initial features needed to support the Intranet site. The robust feature deployment and activation system supported in SharePoint makes it very easy to fine-tune the functionality available within a site. In many cases these features may already be activated by default depending on your settings for the Web application and overall farm.
Following is a list of the features that should be activated on the site being configured:
