Struggling with Web Parts that add value & drive visitors to site...
Does anyone struggle with what web parts (i.e. content) you should add to your SharePoint sites? We've had SharePoint going back to Office XP and SPS 2001! and yet we've never really taken advantage of web parts, so all our sites have these blank home pages, OR we end up just adding a web part that points to the Shared Documents library. Maybe a links list here or there but not all that often.
In the modern SharePoint Online era, what is an ideal layout web-part wise in your environments? what are your preferences?
- what's a good number of sections? one, two or three? if two, do you typically go with the 1/3-left or 1/3-right divisions?
- do you use the full-width section (for banners)?
- do you use the vertical section (down the right-side)?
- what web parts typically add value or drive site visits?
- Document Libraries?
- Lists?
- Quick Links?
- Images?
- Text?
I went through and listed all the web parts that can be added to SPO these days. Let me know if you have used any of these and how they went over.
- Text, Media and Content
- Banner
- Button
- Call to Action
- Divider
- Hero
- Image
- Image Gallery
- Link
- Quick Links
- Spacer
- Stream
- Text
- YouTube
- Documents, Lists & Libraries
- Document Library
- File and Media
- Highlighted Content
- List
- List Properties
- Page Properties
- Recent Documents
- Saved for Later
- Sites
- Feeds
- Conversations
- Highlights
- News, People and Events
- Countdown Timer
- Events
- Group Calendar
- News
- Org Chart
- People
- Planner
- Data Analysis
- Microsoft Forms
- Power BI
- Quick Chart
- Site Activity
- Regional Info
- Bing Maps
- Weather
- World Clock
- Advanced
- Code Snippet
- Embed
- Kindle Instant Preview
- Markdown
- Microsoft PowerApps
- My Feed