Communication site in SharePoint Online

In this blog we will discuss about communication site in SharePoint online. Microsoft has newly introduced this site which will provide a great place to share information to others. You can easily create news report , Weather, Quick link,Events and Yammer etc.

Mainly, it creates a site collection that is very mobile friendly and capable to display information in a dynamic way.

Most of the new features are easily configured without any custom coding .

What is a SharePoint communication site?

Communication Sites provide an easy way of creating layouts for quickly communicating information. They offer rich functionality, including a ‘hero’ web part showcasing content, with image links to key pages, news and events.

Create a communication site in SharePoint Online

Here we will discuss how to Create a communication site in SharePoint Online.

Step 1: Open SharePoint online Admin center and go to the site and select communication site.

Step 2: When you select communication site, It will ask to enter site name and other details as per below image. Once done please click on Finish button to proceed.

Step 3: Once you click on Finish, Your new site will be created and It will ready to use. It will be appear like below screenshot.

SharePoint Online communication site features

Below are a few features of SharePoint Online communication sites.

News Web part: This is one of the good feature in SharePoint where every organization they mostly used in their intranet application.

Events: This is the existing feature in SharePoint but it has mobile friendly and good User interface as compare to classic site. Here user can able to add the events and there are many new features which is provided my Microsoft.

People Profile: In this section user can easily add the SharePoint user to quick redirect to profile page.

Youtube: Here we can easily embed the Youtube video in our application.

Chart: Here we can easily add the chart without any custom coding . We can provide the manual value or we can also connected to SharePoint list to bind the data which will appear on Chart.

Quick Link: We can manage our important link in this web part.

Image Gallery: This is also a important feature where we can keep our image file and we can manage it in different style.

Page Templates:You can create page template any time in communication site. Microsoft has already provide three built-in page template to design your modern page in SharePoint.

Code Snippet:This is also a good feature provided my Microsoft called Code snippet where we can keep our code safe and it will helpful for while creating a blog site.

Hero Webpart: This is also a important feature in communication site. This will provide you full width tile webpart that comes with multiple layouts. It has excellent mobile compatibility.

Showcase design for communication site

You may like following SharePoint Online modern experience tutorials:

• SharePoint Modern Experience – All You Need to Know!
• Hub Sites SharePoint Online Office 365 Tutorial Download PDF Free
• How to set a modern home page in classic SharePoint site in SharePoint Online Office 365?
• Difference between SharePoint classic and modern experiences in list and library
• SharePoint 2019 modern Team site template missing while creating subsites
• Creating modern pages and make it as home page in SharePoint Online
• Creating a site page for enabling Modern UI experience in Office 365 SharePoint Online
• New Modern Look of SharePoint Online Lists in Office 365

I hope you found this information valuable in helping you getting started with using Communication Sites in SharePoint Online.