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Mark-Kashman
Microsoft
MicrosoftROLLING OUT: SharePoint Online team sites + Office 365 Groups & Pages
Today marks the beginning of bringing the full power of SharePoint to Office 365 Groups, with additional benefits to SharePoint Online all up! New and existing groups will get modern team sites, whic...
Just had a quick first look at the new pages.. is Microsoft thinking about setting up a Miles & More member scheme? All these new layouts have the same in common: so little content is actually visible and so much scrolling involved.
The amount of information I can put in the same amount of space on these new pages compared to the current pages is negligible. There is the large amount of space which is taken up be the site name and menu, then half of the page is taken up by an image placeholder which no one really needs and then I am forced to use a huge font size, one column layout... content really is not king here.
Is this the only layout available to us in the near future?
Hi Philine -
More layouts to come! The single column layout is just the first one out the door. Multicolumn layouts are absolutely a feature we are actively working on.
Thank you for your feedback regarding the spacing around the site header/placeholder image and nav. :smileyhappy:
Alyssa Danesh wrote:Hi Philine -
More layouts to come! The single column layout is just the first one out the door. Multicolumn layouts are absolutely a feature we are actively working on.
Thank you for your feedback regarding the spacing around the site header/placeholder image and nav. :smileyhappy:
Hallelujah, just got my first chance to play with these new modern pages, and this is the first thing that I noticed.
We've used the Bootstrap responsive layouts in SharePoint Online for years with great success, so for our organization, going back to a big fat single column would be hard to stomach.
I also hate the giant banner. Between the O365 Header, the Site Header, and the Banner, MOST screens wont allow you to see content at all on page load.
Sometimes I think they stick in the occasional unpopular but easily fixable feature or element in just to give the nit-pickers something to focus on.
Not that I'd ever do such a thing, of course :smileywink:
Taking a look at how the new modern experience shows up on all devices, the new look does work very well in all environments. Gone are the days of smashing as much content into a page as possible. The single column experience really is the easiest way to present information so that it will work in any device scenario. Scrolling is now the norm and users should be used to freely moving around vertically to find information.
About two years ago we had testers from our company and customers test out a website setup that was very similar to how the new modern sites/pages are setup. I was extremely nervous but it quickly became obvious that it was the right decision. Content is not king. Simplicity and good styling actually takes precedence over even content, believe it or not, for driving adoption and repeat visitors. Who knew....
