- [Instructor] Another customizable element
for modern sites is the site theme or the site color set.
This shows up in a couple places.
First, in all the off the different screen elements
like the edit button, the colors here,
got the mobile app and feedback.
Also, if we go to SharePoint home,
notice that it's up here at the top.
I'm going to simply refresh this to see if we can
get our icon to pop at this point.
And yes it does.
So here's our new icon.
And this is the theme set for this particular site.
Let's go back and change it.
Go to the gear or settings button
and choose change the look.
In our classic SharePoint sites there's a theming gallery.
And it might be that your organization
spent some resources on building a set of themes
and wants you to use those.
In that case you would choose classic,
change the look options and it would take you
to that theming gallery that has specific themes
and a different experience really that allows you to change
a number of different elements about how your site looks.
So here we are in the change the look gallery
and if your organization developed themes using
the Microsoft recommended practices,
those themes would be here for you to select from.
But these are not our modern themes.
These are our classic themes.
To access our modern themes after you've
opened the gear and chosen change the look,
don't go to the classic look options.
Instead, simply make a choice
of one of the different Sharepoint themes.
For example, our sales organization
frequently uses the color green
and notice how quickly it's applied.
We have different colors for the different elements.
This color scheme can be further customized.
I can click customize and I can choose the main color
and then choose specific accent colors.
And say what kind of emphasis
I'd like to have on the background.
So if I choose something like Soft
or Strong, notice there's Strong on the background,
Soft, Neutral, which is a light gray
or none which is simply white.
So the question of how you want this theme
to want accent color, you primarily want to use
as available right here.
If I go back to my default options, I can do that
and if I wanted to have that dark bar at the top,
I simply choose it and click apply.
So those are my choices.
Choose a main color, an accent color
and decide if I want the banner to be
in a particular color or not.
There are two reasons that we applied different looks
or themes to sites.
One is a branding use so that perhaps all of the sites
in our organization use the same colors
or all of the sites in one department use green
and another department use orange and so on.
So this can be a larger branding effort.
If your organization doesn't have
those types of specific standards,
our job then is to choose something that's easy to look at
that's easy to work with and that allows our team
to quickly and easily find our site
and know they are on our site
so that when I see this green color
and this icon somewhere in Sharepoint
whether it's on the Sharepoint homepage or elsewhere,
I immediately know this is my sales site.
I know exactly where I am.
To make a different choice, you would simply return
to the year, go back to change the look,
make another choice and the theme at the top
blue is where we started out previously.
But I'm going to leave this site just as it is.