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Transform your intranet home page with the Welcome app and a custom layout

Illustrated promotional graphic for Accelerator 365 Custom Layouts. The image shows three people collaborating around a customizable intranet dashboard featuring charts, analytics, widgets, user profiles, and mobile views.

Create a distinctive intranet landing experience tailored to your brand, content priorities and business requirements by using the Welcome app by Accelerator 365 and a custom layout.

Your intranet home page is the starting point for your employees’ day. It should help people understand what matters, find what they need and feel connected to your organization. 
 
The Accelerator 365 Welcome app brings important content, tools and personalized information together in one place. With a custom layout, you can take that experience further to tailor the appearance and behavior around your brand and the way your employees use the home page. 

See the difference a custom layout can make

Side-by-side comparison of two SharePoint intranet homepages built with the Accelerator 365 Welcome app. The left image shows a standard homepage layout, while the right demonstrates a redesigned Custom Layout with a full-width hero banner, branded visuals, dashboard widgets, customizable tool icons, contacts, events, and business applications, illustrating how the new layouts transform the intranet experience without custom development.

The top of the home page is often the most prominent area on your intranet, so changing this design can transform first impressions and elevate this particular page beyond the standard SharePoint look and feel that your users may have grown accustomed to. 

What can be customized?

Annotated screenshot of an Accelerator 365 Custom Layout for the Welcome app on a SharePoint intranet homepage. Callouts highlight key capabilities including a personalized greeting, smart content tagging, full-width featured news, carousel navigation, smart local widgets, and brand-colored content cards, demonstrating how the layout creates a modern, highly customizable homepage experience.

Every custom layout is scoped around your requirements, so the exact design and functionality will vary. Typically it can include: 

A stronger visual identity

Apply your organization’s colors, typography, imagery, and design language to create a branded, consistent experience.

Clearer content priorities

Highlight important news, campaigns, tools, and calls to action so users can quickly find what matters most.

Personalized experiences

Use audience targeting to deliver relevant information to different employees, teams, or locations.

Additional integrations

Connect your custom content and business tools to provide users with the information they need in one place.

Learn more

We have many more examples! Get in touch and learn how a custom layout for the Welcome web part can help your intranet. 

Collage showcasing three SharePoint intranet homepage templates created with Accelerator 365 Custom Layouts. Each homepage features a distinct design and arrangement of news, tools, contacts, events, and dashboard widgets, demonstrating how organizations can create unique, branded intranet experiences without custom development.
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