Do you use the best SharePoint navigation?

On intranets you always want a bunch of links easily accessible and customizable by the end users.

In SharePoint your left navigation can be:

The built-in site navigation

Good points:

• Built-in – the default navigation system in SharePoint

Bad points:

• Viewer – Not very pretty
• Viewer – Can only use emoji not icons in names
• Customizing – Cant be customized

❌ Figure: Bad example - Viewing

❌ Figure: Bad example - Editing (No customizations)

Web links – SharePoint web part

Good points:

• Pretty
• Easy to edit Bad points:
• Static (only exists on the page, won’t show on any other pages on the site)

Good example:

✅ Figure: Good example - Customizing is easy

✅ Figure: Good example - Custom icons and built-in icons that look nice