Modifying the Sharepoint Homepage

Now that we've created a picture library, let's put it onto the homepage.

Click the "Home" link on the top navigation bar to get to the front page. Notice that the "Picture Libraries" link on the Left shows the Staff List we just created.

Our goal is to have Sharepoint Services display the Staff List on the front page.

Sidebar: Web Parts and Zones

The list we created, along with the Announcements list are called "Web Parts" in the language of Sharepoint Services.
As we'll see, we can bring Web Parts onto the homepage to customize the look of the page. There are specified areas on the homepage that can accept web parts. These areas are called Zones.


On the upper right corner of the screen you should see a link "Modify Shared Page". If you have the correct security permissions you can "Browse" for web parts. We should see the Staff List we just created.

If you click and hold your mouse button over the list you can drag it out over the grey boxes around the existing lists - these are the Zones that can accept web parts.

Try this a few times and you'll get the hang of it.

When you've done this, click the small "X" by the menu on the right. This will take the page out of "Modify" mode.
Now your homepage contains the Staff List you created previously.

Sidebar

You can bring any list onto the homepage in the same way. You can also bring multiple versions of the same list onto the homepage - this is useful if you want to show different views of the list. We'll cover off views later.