Creating Informative and Stunning Content with Modern SharePoint Pages

SharePoint has a long history of being a platform for informative portals used with a web browser, commonly called intranets. The modern experience brought a huge change to content authoring, mobile friendly and responsive by nature. It has some limitations, such as strictly defined styles, fonts, and page structure. Customization of the look and feel is fairly limited to theming and icons, but the focus should in any case be the content itself, enriched with the organization’s own images and graphics.

The modern authoring canvas is simple and intuitive to use. The page is structured in sections with different column layouts. The actual content is produced with web parts, which can be freely added and organized within columns, and move between columns and sections just by dragging. The content author sees the changes in real time when web parts are changed or content is added.

In this chapter, we’...