Amazing Web Parts in SharePoint
Are you starting to get more complex intranet design requests from your stakeholders? We have the perfect solution for you.
The basic SharePoint web parts are perfect for building a classic intranet page. They are the building blocks of your site pages after all. But you can easily level up your game further with expert design software that can work directly and seamlessly with your out-of-the-box web parts in SharePoint: ShortPoint.
Let's explore how SharePoint web parts and ShortPoint complement each other to create a modern, engaging, and captivating intranet site.
Using ShortPoint in SharePoint Website Design
Designing with web parts in SharePoint offers a significant advantage: fast and easy page construction. Add to it the flexibility of mixing and matching them based on the content you want to share with your end users - and you have a powerful, all-round design system. ShortPoint expands existing SharePoint customization options and provides an even wider selection of elements.
Below are a few tips and tricks you can use as you start designing your SharePoint page.
With SharePoint, you can choose between 7 layout options from the get-go. These are enough to just cover the basic scenarios. However, any design that looks a bit more creative requires you to go beyond the binds of the SharePoint design platform. This is where ShortPoint’s versatile layout options become helpful. You can choose to display content at full page width. Alternatively, you can completely customize the width and number of columns, unlocking endless design combinations.
SharePoint offers built-in site navigation with two specific style options. You can customize the navigation list and links to direct your end users where you want them to go. However, if you need to create a secondary navigation, your choices for web parts will be limited.
ShortPoint, in comparison, solves this by providing ready-to-use elements like Tiles and Image Titles, ideal for creating a modern and intuitive navigation section on your page. This allows you to carefully consider how your users will interact with your page and determine the best approach to deliver the information and experience they need.
Now, you can assemble all the content you wish to showcase on your intranet site using SharePoint's web parts. Utilize your page layout strategically to direct your users' attention through your content. When layout alone isn't sufficient, ShortPoint offers additional tools to organize your content effectively. These design elements wrap around web parts to enhance their visibility and attract your users' attention. You can incorporate Panels to highlight important content categories, add background images or videos, utilize tabs to condense multiple content sections into a compact space, and many more.
The choices of SharePoint web parts you can use to present your content are many. You will most likely find one that fits the content you want to incorporate into your intranet page. However, you might end up using the same web parts repeatedly across many pages of your intranet site.
With ShortPoint, you gain access to numerous additional design elements, enabling greater creativity in your intranet design. These ShortPoint Design Elements are highly customizable, so even if you use the same element multiple times, you can personalize each instance to make it look unique.
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Create a SharePoint Intranet Site Fast With ShortPoint
Designing a single SharePoint page is one challenge, but building an entire site to meet your organization’s needs is another. Now that you’re familiar with the available SharePoint web parts and the added value ShortPoint brings to your design process, you can approach your projects with greater creativity, efficiency, and impact.
As you create SharePoint intranet sites for your organization, you can ensure you are saving time, effort, and resources by applying these best practices:
- Aim for an intuitive site structure
Begin by planning a site structure that aligns with your users' needs. Use journey maps and user interviews to gain a clear understanding of how they will benefit from the intranet, how they are likely to interact with the pages, and what kind of experience they expect. This planning will be key to the success of your SharePoint site.
- Access customizable templates
Using templates is the quickest way to build your site collection. Instead of starting from scratch, you can choose from several generic templates provided by SharePoint. However, because of some limitations in modifying these templates, it may become more difficult and time-consuming to go this route.
ShortPoint offers a wide range of page and section templates that are easy to add to your pages. These templates are also highly customizable, so you can set up your page in just a few clicks and adjust the components to fit your needs. - Select and apply expert-designed web parts
Design your pages by combining SharePoint web parts and expert-designed ShortPoint design elements. It is like you have a complete set of tools at your fingertips to complete a fully functional and value-adding intranet site.
- Copy and paste existing designs
When you already have the perfect page designs, there is no stopping you from applying them to scale on other SharePoint sites on your tenancy. ShortPoint web parts are very easy to replicate across different site collections. Simply copy and paste the designs from one site to another. After that, you can edit and replace them with new content.
Intranet Redesign with ShortPoint
Already have an intranet site but it is not performing as expected? You are ready for a SharePoint site redesign.
ShortPoint makes reinventing your intranet sites straightforward and almost effortless. The intranet design tools outlined above are also highly effective in giving your old SharePoint pages a refreshed and modern look.
Revamp your site pages using templates
Just the same as building new intranet sites, you can use ShortPoint templates for a quick and effective redesign. They are expertly designed with the latest User Interface best practices in mind making them inherently effective in presenting content and have functionality that are available in modern intranet sites.
Use modern elements to refresh your site
As you redesign your intranet pages, you may want to add interactivity and elements that encourage engagement to them. ShortPoint offers a large variety of design elements that are built with this in mind. Use the design elements individually or a combination of elements that let your content pop out.
Update your site theme effortlessly
ShortPoint comes with a Theme Builder which helps to apply your company brand and typology across your site pages. It also gives you flexibility in the look and feel of your site collection. Redesigning your menus, headers, fonts and typography, and more is made quick and easy.
Launch your redesigned sites in phases
With ShortPoint, you can update individual pages and site themes at your own pace. Designers can keep their designs unpublished until it is all ready to launch. This allows you to plan changes to your site without disrupting the current usage of your site.
Using SharePoint Intranet Site
SharePoint is a powerful platform that you can fully utilize to promote a fully connected and collaborative workforce. If set up to be user-friendly and engaging, the use of your SharePoint sites will be extensive. It will become the hub of information, knowledge, and resources for your employees which fuels their productivity. It unifies the workforce and builds teams that bring their best work forward.
ShortPoint helps in expanding the features and capabilities of how you use SharePoint as your intranet. It shares the aim of encouraging communication, connection, and collaboration across your workforce. It does so by continuously offering, developing and evolving the following tools:
- a powerful add-on that helps you to create SharePoint intranet sites as well as redesign intranets,
- a wide selection of the best SharePoint intranet templates that are easy to customize,
- a SharePoint page builder with over 60 Design Elements that complement SharePoint web parts,
- a Theme Builder that makes it easy to apply company brand and customize site themes,
- and a Connect feature that allows you to integrate Microsoft 365 and external resources.
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Download the trial or speak with our product experts to learn more. Bring ShortPoint to your organization and design a SharePoint page today.
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