Applying Themes and Site Settings

Quick reference

• 00:04 It's time now to talk about the design, the look, and
• 00:07 feel of our SharePoint sites.
• 00:09 Because, really all out of the box sites look pretty much the same.
• 00:14 They all have the same kind of layout, same kind of coloring.
• 00:17 But we can make some minor changes to the way that our site looks.
• 00:21 Now, I will say, when you're using the modern experience,
• 00:24 you don't have a great deal of choice when it comes to changing the colors,
• 00:28 the fonts, the backgrounds, in your SharePoint site.
• 00:31 We only have a couple of options.
• 00:33 Some of which we've already looked at.
• 00:35 So if you click on the cog icon in the top right hand corner and
• 00:38 go down to change the look.
• 00:40 We already know that if we need to change the theme, we can jump into here and
• 00:44 then we have a list of different themes that we can apply.
• 00:47 So maybe let's go for something quite dramatic.
• 00:49 Let's go for this dark yellow.
• 00:51 And you can see that that is quite a dramatic change.
• 00:53 What about something like dark blue, maybe a gray color?
• 00:58 I think I'm going to go dramatic in this instance, just so
• 01:01 we have a real contrasting change.
• 01:03 Let's click the back arrow.
• 01:05 We can also change our header.
• 01:07 And again, this is something that we looked at at the start of the course.
• 01:10 So I'm not going to go into this again.
• 01:13 Let's click on Save.
• 01:14 Now really when it comes to customizing the look and feel, that is pretty much all
• 01:18 you can do with regards to the colors that you're using and the way that it looks.
• 01:23 Obviously, you can edit this page and you can change the layout, move things around,
• 01:27 do all of that kind of stuff.
• 01:29 But with the look and feel we have minimal customization options.
• 01:33 However, for pages that use the classic experience,
• 01:37 we do have a lot more customization options.
• 01:41 So let me show you this very quickly.
• 01:43 And let's jump in to our training task list.
• 01:46 Because this uses the classic experience.
• 01:50 So this time I'm going to jump up to the cog.
• 01:54 And take a look, I have a different set of themes down here.
• 01:58 So these themes pretty much customize that header area.
• 02:01 So I can switch to something completely different.
• 02:06 Let's go for that one just there.
• 02:08 What about if I go to change the look from up here?
• 02:11 Well, again, I have a whole host of different templates.
• 02:14 So here I can change the color, the font that I'm using, and
• 02:18 also the background imagery.
• 02:20 So I can select any one of these.
• 02:22 So let's take a look.
• 02:23 Let's go for this one down here.
• 02:25 Now you can see here, I can choose to change that background image.
• 02:29 So instead of this kind of blurred out abstract image, I could click, Change, and
• 02:35 then upload a file of my choice that I have saved off to use as the background.
• 02:40 I can also change the color palette that I'm using.
• 02:44 So if I don't particularly like these colors,
• 02:46 I can change them to something completely different.
• 02:48 I can change the site layout.
• 02:50 I have a choice of two, Seattle or Oslo.
• 02:53 And you can see as I toggle between them, the difference there.
• 02:57 And then I can choose the fonts that I want to use in this design.
• 03:01 Now, once you've set how you want your site to look, you can click on Try it Out
• 03:06 at the top and see what that looks like before applying it.
• 03:10 And if you're happy with the way that it looks, let's click, Yes keep it.
• 03:14 And you can see that that design has now been applied to my site.
• 03:18 Now if I click back on home,
• 03:20 notice that the color scheme does actually feed through.
• 03:24 You just can't access those templates unless you're in a page that uses
• 03:28 the classic view.
• 03:30 So have a little play around with those settings and see what you think.

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