Forum Discussion
Header area for Modern Pages
I have the new editing features on my dev tenant but they have not made it to my employers tenant just yet.
These are great features, love the new column templates and the ability to change the header image
But! Modern pages are still unusable for my employer.
There is no way to scale the header image, therefore your images are set to fit the space and this destroys the resolution, hope this is changed before the final release.
We still need the ability to either remove the header and shrink the white space, you can choose to not have an image but it still leaves a big gap between the Page Title and the Page Body.
Users do not like a lot of white space between these elements.
Hi - definitely hear your feedback on a need for more customizations (specifically removing the title region) on pages. We are currently looking into more title layouts to support more scenarios and make pages look great.
Could you explain the scenario where you'd want to remove the title region all together? Would love to hear your feedback so we know what to work on!
Hi Alyssa,
This morning I see that the white space is greatly reduced in my dev tenant, if I delete the background image, this is great. My employers site does not have this ability yet, but when this is rolled out I think this will be more acceptable to my co-workers.
Sorry I was not more clear on the Title region, I was referring more to the white space and background image being so large, but now that the space is reduced, I still have to get feedback from my boss and coworkers but I don't see this as big an issue for us anymore.
Thank you
Awesome! Great to hear and please let me know if you have any additional feedback.
Hi
When placing a hero image at the top, what would be the optimum size for the image?
Thanks, Laurie
Hate to say it, but size doesn't matter. For most pages, we don't actually need a header image, just room for a title. Ideally you could set preferences for header in Site Settings. At the very least, a choice of (1) banner and (2) non-banner with Title pages would be ideal.
Hi Alyssa,
This morning I see that the white space is greatly reduced in my dev tenant if delete the background image, this is great. I think this will be more acceptable to my co-workers.
Sorry I was not more clear on the Title region, I was referring more to the white space and background image being so large, but now that the space is reduced, I still have to get feedback from my boss and coworkers but I don't see this as big an issue for us anymore.
Thank you
- The amount of white space is definitely an issue, but as this has been addressed somewhat the next pressing issue for me is the default behavior of the Quick Launch links. By default, the tree is shown in expanded view, meaning a lot of the root subsites are not shown, and instead have to be found by collapsing the subsites in view, or by scrolling. New users to SharePoint are not immediately familiar with this practice, nor in my opinion should they have to use additional clicks/time to collapse subsites in their way to display the actual subsites they wish to navigate to. Please allow a default value to have lists collapsed as default!
In my case, I was not so much interested in removing the page title than just removing the excessive dead space on the top of the page. I noticed the same issue when I made forms with Infopath that drove me nuts.
I'm not against, white space, but it was just over the top too large.
I suspect your visual developers are not using the screen resolution that the average office worker is using. I am sure the existing white page looks fine on a very high res monitor How about making the white space responsive to the resolution of the monitor so it looks fine everywhere.
We would like to remove the title area altogether to be able to make pages appear like the home pages for modern team and communication sites - where content starts right at the top - no title, image, or whitespace. One thing this would help with is setting up a modern homepage for existing sites. The guidance to create a new modern page, set it up with web parts, and set as homepage leaves you with a site that looks quite a bit different than a brand new Office 365 Group site which does not have any kind of title header on the landing page.
I'm also interested to know where to find out more regarding first release for minor items. For example - I have two accounts in the same tenant - one on first release and the other not. At first, the one could create a Communication Site, and the other could go there and see it, but the layout was garbled. As of today, the account not on first release can see the page with the layout looking much better - however the options for the Quick Links web part are different between the two accounts (new compact view along with filmstrip for first release) and the editing experience looks slightly different (this is true on Team Sites for which both accounts are owners as well). What does the roll-out path for minor changes like that look like?
