Prepare for SharePoint Online Creation Portal Series

Preface

The portal is a type of site that SharePoint has been very suitable for since it was launched, and the publishing site is widely used in the server version. Here, we'll show you how to create a portal site in SharePoint Online with a simple example and then a fixed project demo.

I. Introduction to the Design tools SharePoint Designer

To open the designer, you first need to click the Red Box button to open the site, enter the site's address; Generally speaking, the website address is an open homepage (for example: https://linyus-public.sharepoint.com/Pages/default.aspx ) in the front part of pages, i.e. https://linyus-public.sharepoint.com;

Designer can open the top-level site or sub-site for modification and editing operations, if you need to modify the content in which part of the site can open.

Enter the website address, click OK, will pop up Office 365 landing box, enter the account and password confirmation, you can log in, after landing such as:

The designer's operation is basically the same as Office 2013, and all the functions are in the Ribbon menu at the top of the software, and if you find that you can't find what you need, just go to the ribbon to find it.

As for the designer's features such as modifying master pages, page layouts, pages, adding WebPart Zones and WebPart, adding list forms and data views, these are not described here, and are described separately in subsequent blogs.

Ii. Creating a website

To create a site collection in Office 365, we need to go to SharePoint Central Administration, first to the administrator, such as:

At the bottom of the left menu, find SharePoint, such as:

Go to the Site Collection Administration menu, click the New button above the site collection, and select a public website, such as:

Fill in the title, choose URL, language, time zone, add administrator, set storage quota and server resources, click OK Wait a moment (I wait here for a long, hey) can;

Prompt to create the time required, may be 15 minutes or more, the basic will be more, hehe;

You can see that the creation is complete, such as:

Open the site, for example, next we will be on this public website, step by step for you to demonstrate, how to create a portal site.

Also in SharePoint Central Administration, the site collection of the Recycle Bin, you can see we delete the site, if it is mistakenly deleted, can also be restored back, such as:

Third, the Site directory introduction

1. master page and page layout , located in Site Settings – Master page and page layout

If you click Settings, find Site Settings, click to enter:

To go to the menu, click Master Page and page layout, you can:

After you enter the menu, you can see all the master pages, page layouts, such as:

In particular, SharePoint's Master pages and page layouts, with the basic functionality of document management such as check-in check-out, versioning, and more, make it easy for us to modify and maintain.

If you accidentally publish a new version of the master page and page layout, you can retrieve it through versioning, and if you do not perform a check-in operation, the normal user is not authorized to see it.

2. page library , location Site Settings – Site Content – Page

Click Site Settings to access the site content, such as:

After entering the site content, find the page this library, that is, the page library, such as:

Click on the page library, you can enter, such as:

Like master pages and page layouts, the page library has check-in check-out and versioning, but the difference is that Master pages and page layouts are common to top-level sites and subsites, but the page library is exclusive to the site.

3. resource file , Location: Site content – specific document library

In the development of SharePoint online, the preservation of resource files requires special planning to avoid the confusion of resources during later use and maintenance. Here, we can take advantage of our own document library, or can be created by ourselves;

Generally enter the repository, first according to the file type classification to create a good folder, used to save the same type of file, so that we later management and maintenance, such as:

Iv. recommendations

In the development of SharePoint Online, we recommend the stylesheet, script external references, picture files are not too large, try to use JavaScript API instead of sandboxed solution, all library names, field names in English first, after the Chinese, do not use special symbols, etc. To facilitate our subsequent implementation of the work.

Prepare for SharePoint Online Creation Portal Series