Practical, no-fluff guides to customising and modernising SharePoint Online.
A focused, affordable ShortPoint alternative - 18 purpose-built web parts at a fraction of the cost, unlimited sites, self-serve, no tracking.
Read guide →Plumsail prices its org chart by employee count - cross a band and the price steps up. Ours has no employee bands, and the whole kit costs less than one banded renewal surprise.
Read guide →TeamOrgChart steps from $25 to $60 to $140 a month as you hire. Glow Cloud Kit - Org Chart is £29/mo at any headcount, or the whole kit for £99.
Read guide →A native SharePoint social feed instead of a third-party embed - no iframes, no view limits, no vendor branding, and nothing tracking which staff read what.
Read guide →Powell, Omnia and Staffbase sell a whole intranet platform, priced per user and quoted by a salesperson. One question decides it: are you replacing your intranet, or improving it?
Read guide →Building one is easy. Owning it through five years of SPFx versions is the part nobody budgets for - with real maintenance numbers from our own repositories.
Read guide →The full playbook - header, theme, people and calendars - for turning a default intranet into something branded and usable.
Read guide →What you can change natively, where the limits are, and the supported way to apply a fully branded header site-wide.
Read guide →How theming actually works, building an accessible brand palette, and applying it consistently.
Read guide →A fast, searchable directory with presence, contact cards and org structure - using data you already have.
Read guide →SharePoint has no native org chart. What Microsoft 365 shows, where it stops, and how to put a live one on a page.
Read guide →Native sections are boxed and plain. How to add full-bleed bands with gradients, images and shape dividers.
Read guide →Richer layouts plus pin, reorder and breaking-story curation the native News web part can't do.
Read guide →A responsive gallery with a lightbox and inline SharePoint video - not just the native image grid.
Read guide →Richer tiles, live list binding, per-link audience targeting and click analytics.
Read guide →SharePoint has no comms bar. How to add scheduled, dismissible alerts and a scrolling ticker.
Read guide →No native FAQ web part. How to build a searchable, collapsible FAQ inline on the page.
Read guide →Show your own posts natively, read-only, without the third-party embed trackers.
Read guide →A board of local times and weather for your offices, natively, with no Graph scopes.
Read guide →A designed banner with a background, scrim and CTA buttons - beyond the native Hero web part.
Read guide →Overlay SharePoint lists, Exchange, Microsoft 365 groups and iCal feeds into one colour-coded view.
Read guide →What JSON formatting can and can't do, and how to show a designed table, card or tile view of any list - without touching the list.
Read guide →SharePoint cannot greet the signed-in person by name. What people try instead, why messy display names break it, and how to do it with no Graph permissions.
Read guide →SharePoint has no kudos web part. What people improvise with, why it stops after a month, and how to put a proper recognition wall on a page.
Read guide →Where Microsoft Forms and survey lists lose people on an intranet page, and how to run polls people answer in passing - including the truth about anonymity.
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