{"id":1719,"date":"2017-12-01T18:27:33","date_gmt":"2017-12-01T18:27:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.turtle.works\/knowledge\/?p=1719"},"modified":"2017-12-01T18:31:33","modified_gmt":"2017-12-01T18:31:33","slug":"communication-site","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.turtle.works\/knowledge\/communication-site\/","title":{"rendered":"Communication Site"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3>SharePoint Communication Site<\/h3>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000; font-family: Calibri;\">Are you after a different kind of <a href=\"https:\/\/products.office.com\/en-us\/sharepoint\/sharepoint-online-collaboration-software\">SharePoint<\/a> experience?<\/span><span style=\"color: #000000; font-family: Calibri;\">\u00a0 <\/span><span style=\"color: #000000; font-family: Calibri;\">Tired of the same old look and feel that the OOTB experience offers?<\/span><span style=\"color: #000000; font-family: Calibri;\">\u00a0 <\/span><span style=\"color: #000000; font-family: Calibri;\">Well I agree, we need to create something more visually appealing and Microsoft has done just that, The Communication Site.<\/span><span style=\"color: #000000; font-family: Calibri;\">\u00a0 <\/span><span style=\"color: #000000; font-family: Calibri;\">So how do we create a Communication Site?<\/span><\/p>\n<h4><span style=\"color: #000000; font-family: Calibri;\">Let\u2019s get started\u2026<\/span><\/h4>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000; font-family: Calibri;\">Log into your Office 365 environment<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000; font-family: Calibri;\">Navigate to the SharePoint tile<\/span><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-1731\" src=\"http:\/\/www.turtle.works\/knowledge\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/WPC1.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"147\" height=\"140\" \/><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"margin: 0px; line-height: 107%; font-family: 'Calibri',sans-serif; font-size: 11pt;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Near the top middle section click on <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-1732\" src=\"http:\/\/www.turtle.works\/knowledge\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/WPC2.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"234\" height=\"52\" \/><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000; font-family: Calibri;\">A window will open, select Communication Site (or play around with the <a href=\"https:\/\/social.technet.microsoft.com\/wiki\/contents\/articles\/40067.sharepoint-online-modern-team-sites.aspx\">Team site<\/a> if you want)<\/span><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-1733\" src=\"http:\/\/www.turtle.works\/knowledge\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/WPC3-300x144.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"144\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.turtle.works\/knowledge\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/WPC3-300x144.png 300w, https:\/\/www.turtle.works\/knowledge\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/WPC3-768x369.png 768w, https:\/\/www.turtle.works\/knowledge\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/WPC3-1024x492.png 1024w, https:\/\/www.turtle.works\/knowledge\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/WPC3.png 1346w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000; font-family: Calibri;\">Select the design you want to create\u2026<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000; font-family: Calibri;\">Selecting Topic, Showcase, or Blank from the dropdown will allow you to see the different layouts.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000; font-family: Calibri;\">Give it a name, and a description, click Finish<\/span><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-1728\" src=\"http:\/\/www.turtle.works\/knowledge\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/WPC4-300x207.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"207\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.turtle.works\/knowledge\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/WPC4-300x207.png 300w, https:\/\/www.turtle.works\/knowledge\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/WPC4-768x529.png 768w, https:\/\/www.turtle.works\/knowledge\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/WPC4-1024x705.png 1024w, https:\/\/www.turtle.works\/knowledge\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/WPC4.png 1077w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000; font-family: Calibri;\">Voila!<\/span><span style=\"color: #000000; font-family: Calibri;\">\u00a0 <\/span><span style=\"color: #000000; font-family: Calibri;\">You\u2019ve just created a Communication Site.<\/span><span style=\"color: #000000; font-family: Calibri;\">\u00a0 <\/span><span style=\"color: #000000; font-family: Calibri;\">The Topic design will look like this when first created\u2026<\/span><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-1729\" src=\"http:\/\/www.turtle.works\/knowledge\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/WPC6-300x196.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"196\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.turtle.works\/knowledge\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/WPC6-300x196.png 300w, https:\/\/www.turtle.works\/knowledge\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/WPC6-768x502.png 768w, https:\/\/www.turtle.works\/knowledge\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/WPC6-1024x669.png 1024w, https:\/\/www.turtle.works\/knowledge\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/WPC6.png 1130w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-1730\" src=\"http:\/\/www.turtle.works\/knowledge\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/WPC7-300x188.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"188\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.turtle.works\/knowledge\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/WPC7-300x188.png 300w, https:\/\/www.turtle.works\/knowledge\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/WPC7-768x481.png 768w, https:\/\/www.turtle.works\/knowledge\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/WPC7-1024x641.png 1024w, https:\/\/www.turtle.works\/knowledge\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/WPC7.png 1090w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000; font-family: Calibri;\">Click on <\/span><span style=\"font-family: Calibri;\">Edit in the blue box<\/span> <span style=\"color: #000000; font-family: Calibri;\">on the right to begin editing.<\/span><span style=\"color: #000000; font-family: Calibri;\">\u00a0 <\/span><span style=\"color: #000000; font-family: Calibri;\">Go ahead and customize your new site as you see fit.<\/span><span style=\"color: #000000; font-family: Calibri;\">\u00a0 <\/span><span style=\"color: #000000; font-family: Calibri;\">Happy creating!<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>SharePoint Communication Site Are you after a different kind of SharePoint experience?\u00a0 Tired of the same old look and feel that the OOTB experience offers?\u00a0 Well I agree, we need to create something more visually appealing and Microsoft has done just that, The Communication Site.\u00a0 So how do we create a Communication Site? Let\u2019s get &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.turtle.works\/knowledge\/communication-site\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Communication Site&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20,23],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1719","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sharepoint","category-sharepoint-online"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.turtle.works\/knowledge\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1719","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.turtle.works\/knowledge\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.turtle.works\/knowledge\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.turtle.works\/knowledge\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.turtle.works\/knowledge\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1719"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.turtle.works\/knowledge\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1719\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1741,"href":"https:\/\/www.turtle.works\/knowledge\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1719\/revisions\/1741"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.turtle.works\/knowledge\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1719"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.turtle.works\/knowledge\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1719"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.turtle.works\/knowledge\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1719"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}