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SharePoint Templates
I am seeing all these online companies out there offering fancy and nice looking SharePoint Intranet templates, however, most of them come with a hefty price tag. Is there anyway to create custom templates in house? Is there a special program to use or programming langauge? I see these templates that have "customized web parts" not just out-of-the-box web parts and designs. Thanks for any pointers and/or suggestions.
Tim Hunter
Microsoft Docs
https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/sharepoint/dev/spfx/web-parts/get-started/build-a-hello-world-web-part
Community Driven Solutions
https://github.com/SharePoint/sp-dev-fx-webparts
PnP Samples from Lookbook
https://provisioning.sharepointpnp.com/
Professional Training
https://www.voitanos.io/
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Hello Tim Hunter,
The SharePoint look book is worth reviewing for design inspiration and seeing what out of the box functionality can achieve.
I hope this helps.
Norm
Tim Hunter Can you let us know what version of SharePoint are you using? The ability and level of customization available to you varies by the version of SharePoint you are using.
Intranet Templates are expensive, because branding SharePoint is A LOT of work for various reasons. If you are on-premises, you have the ability to create whatever HTML/CSS (use bootstrap if you want) in house, but I would highly advise against it especially if you do not have a lot of experience in doing it. It involves custom master pages, page layouts and working with SharePoint HTML (which, to be frank, isn't as optimized or simple as it should be). SharePoint is very easy to break, when guidance isn't followed correctly. There are a lot of ways to do something, and many of them have negative impacts on your environment.
In any case, take a look at the branding guidelines. This will walk you through the options available to you and will also provide links to all of the information you would need in regards to branding a SharePoint environment.
SPO on the top and on-premises at the bottom.
https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/sharepoint/dev/scenario-guidance/brandingTim Hunter Okay. So you are more limited in that regard. You can customize the modern experience using SPFx Web Parts and extensions. SPFx allows you build whatever web parts/design you want to fit into the pre-defined layouts in a page. If you are working in classic mode in SharePoint Online, I would definitely avoid branding your classic sites, and instead upgrade the to the modern UX.
To give you an impression of the kind of things you can do in SharePoint Online, check out Valo Intranet https://www.valointranet.com/ . While the customization options are more limited in SPO, it doesn't mean you can't make a great looking sites in SharePoint.
