This week’s SharePoint tips gives you information about creating a site design and some of the main characteristics of the SharePoint design principles. You can also get some useful tips on authoring pages in a SharePoint Site.
How to create a site design and register it in SharePoint?
- Visit the SharePoint start page on your developer tenant.
- Pick Create site.
- Team site and Communication site modern template sites will be seen.
- Select Communication site.
- From the Choose a design box, pick either Topic, Showcase, or Blank.
- SharePoint then creates the new site and runs site scripts for the site design.
What are the main characteristics of SharePoint Design Principles?
- Fast and Optimistic.
- Authentic and Useful.
- Futuristic.
- Optimized and Accessible.
- Dynamic and Alive.
Tips to consider while authoring pages in a SharePoint Site
You need to have nice familiarity with the SharePoint Environment.- Make a good understanding of the purpose and for whom you are designing the page.
- Keep it simple and work on ideas that are proven.
- Keep the audience in mind and the goals they want to achieve from the site.
What are the different modes involved with the SharePoint authoring experience?
- Edit and Published.
- The function of the Edit mode is to let page authors add and configure the web parts to add content to a page.
- The Published mode let the audience of your team to view the content and make necessary interactions with the available web parts.
- To allow users to view all page contents on mobile devices, all SharePoint Pages are made responsive by default.
Written by Alex K Joseph, Digital Marketing Strategist, Dock 365
Alex K Joseph is a digital marketing strategist at Dock 365 with deep expertise in content marketing and Microsoft technologies. His published work covers SharePoint administration, Microsoft Teams, Power Automate, Microsoft 365 admin workflows, and Dynamics 365, the underlying platform that Dock 365's contract management software is built on. He has been writing for Dock 365 since 2021, producing technical content that helps SharePoint and Microsoft 365 administrators evaluate CLM solutions in the context of their existing Microsoft stack.


