- [Narrator] We're going to create a communication site.
So we're on SharePoint home.
I'm going to click create site.
And choose communication site.
And my two choices are topic and showcase.
Showcase is a site that gives us a high image to text ratio.
Topic is a site that mixes it up a little more.
So the first site we're going to create is a topic site.
Just so you can see how that works,
we're going to create a test topic site.
And this is demonstration of topic sites.
Choose our language. Remember you can't change that.
And click the finish button, because we are done
not because the language we chose was Finnish.
And this is what our topic site looks like.
So lots of images.
And as you point to them, they kind of zoom a little,
the images move into you.
And then we have a place for news.
And we have a place for events.
And a place for documents.
So what might you use a site like this for?
Remember that one of our examples of use
for a communication site was employee onboarding.
So imagine that we have images of different
types of information that employees would
need to have for onboarding
and then below we have news information about onboarding.
And then we have different events for new employees
and different documents we would like them to review.
Another good use of the topic site would be FAQ's
or training for a particular purpose.
For example, an orientation to our SharePoint site.
So it would be the Kinetico SharePoint site.
And here are documents for example
about how you request different levels of permissions,
or how you ask to have assistance with the site.
Here are events. Regular trainings that we have,
for our site owners and site admins.
And then news about what's new.
New roll outs of things that we've had
for our particular share point site.
So a number of different use cases
for this type of a site, a topic site.
Particularly for information that we want to share
where the information is dynamic,
where's it's tied to particular documents,
we want people to be connected to.
I'd like to create a different site however.
I want to create a showcase site.
And the showcase that I want to create
is for our solar installs.
So we go back to share point home.
We click create site.
Once again a communication site.
But in this case, rather than a topic, I want a showcase.
This is the familiar type of communications site
that I've created previously in this course.
And this is the solar installs showcase.
And I can edit this so that it just says solar showcase.
Cause that's all I needed to have.
It's not a product showcase
and is that available, yes it is.
And this is
residential and commercial
solar installations.
Choose our language, English.
And click finish to create the solar installs showcase,
which is a showcase communication site.
There was a third option by the way,
which was to create a blank communication site.
And if you want to start with a blank
and then add web parts, you can do that as well.
But I'm happy with this showcase,
which we will begin customizing in the next movie.