- [Narrator] This is the showcase communications site that
was created earlier in this course and I want to show you
how it works because we created the site, but we haven't
spent a lot of time on how this particular type of site,
which is a showcase, works. Both showcase and topic sites
use a web part that's called the hero web part.
This is one of them. It's side to side across the
screen and the hero web part has a lot built in features.
It has an image that we can change. It has a title:
make an impression. It has a small amount of text and then
it has a link. And actually if I click anywhere, if click on
make an impression, learn about communication sites,
if I click on the image it doesn't matter because it's
one big hotspot that will take me to a particular place.
In this case it's taking me to:
what is a communication site.
If I scroll down there's another hero web part:
learn how to customize this site. And if I click anywhere
in this web part it will take me to yet another page:
how to customize a site. These are nice things to be able
to find by the way; if you want to know how to use the
hero web part for example. And then below this a third one
goes to learn about web parts. So let's spend a moment
thinking about this. What we have is we have three different
web parts. One that takes us to communication sites.
One that takes us to customization. One that takes us to
web parts. And the easiest way for us to customize a
communication site, the first thing we should do is create
the content that we want to point these different web parts
to. For example; if we didn't already have a page for
learning about web parts we would want to create it first.
If we didn't already have a specific link for "learn how to
customize this site", we would want to create those first.
And indeed there's even a pretty sneaky strategy that I'm
going to show you about this. So as we're getting ready to
create our communication site we know that we have this
homepage that allows us to go to other places.
Anywhere with the url that we can get to, so we can go to
for example a public Microsoft site as a we did here.
We could go to a particular document library. We can go to
a particular page, which is what I am going to show you
how to do. And we can deliver that content. So this is the
homepage of the site. In this case a showcase. And then all
of these links can take us to further levels of detail
underneath this site. Additionally we have at the bottom
an image gallery that we can choose to keep or to pitch,
and this is built in because sometimes what you want in a
showcase is you simply want a lot of links that will go to
different places. Notice each of these is a live link so if
I point to for example this light fixture and I click it
will take me to in this case a bigger version of this image
because that's how the image gallery works.
And at the bottom there is a comments section that allows
people to provide feedback on the page. You can remove this
and we'll talk more about whether you want to do that
a few movies from now. But as you get ready to create your
communication site you want to gather together the text that
you will be using. We can copy and paste that out of Word.
You'll want to have the images that you want to be using and
you'll want to know if there are links outside of the pages
that we'll be creating that you'll want to connect to and
have those URLs or be ready to provide them. If you'd like
you could create a Word document to hang on to all of these
items. You could create a Power Point presentation. You
could create a folder and drop in all of the images and
other information that you like to have. But when you have
all of the information gathered to create a communication
site you're ready to go and I'll see you in the next movie.