Microsoft has always come up with many new features to keep SharePoint updated and it has found a new way to create and distribute the mobile friendly content on SharePoint though Communication sites.
Since the announcement of this feature, it has been rolling out to Office 365 customers and it is a great way to start taking advantage of it.
Starting from news to reports, information to statuses, presenting everything in a visually compelling format, communication sites are beautiful, super easy to use. The Microsoft’s team did a fantastic job by introducing communication sites for the users.
But before we delve deep into what you should consider to start a communication site, it is important to understand what it actually is.
What Is A Communication Site?
Communication sites is a dynamic site that anyone from an organization can create from the SharePoint home and it is used for broader communications and allows you to reach out to the broad audience within your organization.
It can work across all the devices and can also be used to communicate effectively with the audience. Scenarios where organizations can use communication sites are some event announcements, product launches, campaigns, topics of interest, news or etc.
Communication sites in SharePoint are used to broadcast information to a huge audience base and typically only a set of small members contribute content that is consumed by large audiences.
Best Practices to Get Started With Communication Sites:
Plan a little:
To create a SharePoint communication site, proper planning is not essential, because it is easy to try different configurations on the site itself. But for complex sites, that have lots of pages, proper planning is essential.
First of all, it is important to plan a template including a list of all the pages that is needed for the site and a place to document all the content that is needed for every page. This helps the SharePoint developers to create amazing user experiences.
Consider The Pages And The Content First:
Every element of the communication site should be connected to something. In most cases we connect the pages to other pages that are created on the site.
It is easy to create the pages first and then wire them to the web part. When you create a page, you can also add an image to serve as the banner and this will replace the grey swirl on the modern pages.
When you connect the page with the hero web part, your page banner will become the image for that title of the web part.
Make Us Of Web Parts:
The templates are used to get you started with the communication sites. However, you can have an option to remove the sections or even add new sections or make changes in it.
A template is something that allows you to start with a block from which one can work. It is recommended to start with a template so that the SharePoint developers can see how the editing works.
The panel of the site is made up of web parts that can be chosen and used on the pages.
The company has created a prebuilt so that anyone can create the layout without having to write much code. SharePoint developers only have to write the steps of adding the text or dummy content into these web parts.
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