Today the communication sites arrived in my development tenant. After using Marc’s trick I was able to create a communication site.
All you have to do is select a design and supply a site name:
Ok, so what is so great about this? Other than the obvious look and feel!
- New Web Parts
- Hero web parts
- News web part
- Events web part
- Document
The Hero Web Part is the biggest new bit here. It’s a page layout in a web part.
In each section you can add links with images and text
You can now create new good looking pages pages in less than no time!
And then there are a few other small changes 😉
I had to create a new page for this. Remember the new style pages only having a single column to add all your web parts on?
Well the page layouts are back. Or actually they are now section layouts.
For each section on the page you can decide how many columns there should be.
Ok, I tried adding a few columns and then add the hero web part. This made the hero web part only give me the single Tile layout, but I guess that might be what you would expect. This is all about being responsive.
So, in short this is an exciting time to look at all the new stuff Microsoft is delivering in Office 365.
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Pieter Veenstra
Is your business still running on paper trails, sprawling Excel files, or ageing Access databases? There's a better way — and I can show you exactly what it looks like. I'm the Technical Director of Vantage 365, a Microsoft solutions consultancy working with clients across the UK, the Netherlands, and worldwide. For over 30 years I've been turning messy, manual business processes into clean, automated systems that save time, reduce errors, and give teams the visibility they need to make better decisions. SharePains is not just any blog run by a Microsoft MVP. Have you ever used Try-Catch in Power Automate? The original post about Try-Catch in Power Automate can still be found on this site, https://sharepains.com/2018/02/07/try-catch-finally-in-power-automate-flow/ Or have you ever used the Pieter’s method to avoid variables and speed up your flows? https://sharepains.com/2020/03/11/pieters-method-for-advanced-in-flows/ You can contact me using contact@sharepains.com
Pieter Veenstra
Is your business still running on paper trails, sprawling Excel files, or ageing Access databases? There's a better way — and I can show you exactly what it looks like. I'm the Technical Director of Vantage 365, a Microsoft solutions consultancy working with clients across the UK, the Netherlands, and worldwide. For over 30 years I've been turning messy, manual business processes into clean, automated systems that save time, reduce errors, and give teams the visibility they need to make better decisions. SharePains is not just any blog run by a Microsoft MVP. Have you ever used Try-Catch in Power Automate? The original post about Try-Catch in Power Automate can still be found on this site, https://sharepains.com/2018/02/07/try-catch-finally-in-power-automate-flow/ Or have you ever used the Pieter’s method to avoid variables and speed up your flows? https://sharepains.com/2020/03/11/pieters-method-for-advanced-in-flows/ You can contact me using contact@sharepains.com
hi, thanks for the insight ! Do you know if we can add SPFX webpart and change some css / add javascript on existing page content 🙂 ? (script editor / content editor style )
Thank you
Hi Jeff,
The new SPFx web part indeed work on the communication sites as well.
I did notice that the SPFx Extensions (to get the header and footer) woiuld not work as the placeholders aren’t available on the page.