How to customize your SharePoint website

This article discusses some quick tips to customize your SharePoint sites:

• Customize the logo
• Customize the navigation
• Customize the theme
• Customize the page layout
• Customize with web parts

Customize the logo

1. Sign into your site.

2. Select Settings  in the top right corner of your SharePoint site.    Then select Change the look.

3. The Change the look panel will open. Select Header.

4. Select Change under Site logo thumbnail to change the site logo thumbnail. Select Change under Site logo to change the site logo.

   Recommended sizes:​​​​

   • For logo thumbnail: 64px x 64px.
   • For logo: 192px x64px

   See more about site header image recommendations here.

5. Review your updated logo.

Customize the navigation

1. Sign into your site.

2. Select Edit at the end of your existing site navigation links. Depending on your site layout, navigation can be at the top or on the left side of your site.

3. To edit existing links, select the ellipses (...) next to the link. Then select one of the following options from the context menu

   • Edit - Changes the address and/or display name
   • Move up - Moves the link up
   • Move down - Moves the link down
   • Make sub link - Makes the link a sub link of the link above it
   • Promote sub link - Converts a sub link to a top-level link
   • Remove - Deletes the menu item

   

   

4. To add a new link or label to the navigation, hover over the links, then select the plus sign. In the dialog box that appears, choose URL to add a custom link or choose one of the default items associated with your site. Then select OK.

   

Customize the theme

1. Sign into your site.
2. Select Settings  in the top right corner of your SharePoint site.    Then select Change the look.
3. The Change the look panel will open. Select Theme.
4. Select the theme you want to use and then select Save. If selecting an out-of-the box theme, you can also customize the main and accent colors.

Customize the page layout

You can customize a SharePoint page's layout by adding sections with different layouts or editing existing sections' layouts.

1. If you haven't, navigate to the page you want to change layout with.

2. You can change the page layout by:

   • Adding a new section with columns
   • Applying a section template to change its layout with images
   • Changing thelayout of an existing section
   • Make a section collapsible

Customize with web parts

When designing a page, you can add different web parts to build unique and impactful web content. To add web parts, select the ⁠+⁠ icon that appears when you hover over the page or within a section in a page.

Here are some commonly used web parts

• Text: Add text and tables to your page
• Image: Add an image from a library, upload a new one, or search for one online
• Link: Use the Link web part to add a link with a preview to internal or external content
• Embed: Enrich your page by displaying content from other web sites
• Highlighted content: Dynamically display content based on content type, filtering, or a search string
• File and Media: Insert a variety of different file types on your page

Many more web parts are available.

To see the full list, see here.