Am a keen follower of Microsoft's SharePoint Blog and proud to provide this direct from the Microsoft Tech Community:

We are excited to introduce the new SharePoint start experience to make it easy for authors to create personal pages or publish ones to target SharePoint sites. 

 

This feature is in a preview phase to collect initial feedback and enhance the final product.

 

 

The new SharePoint start experience is designed to motivate content creators to utilize the platform. By prioritizing a streamlined and user-friendly interface that reduces the number of clicks, it has become simpler to create SharePoint sites and pages. Creators can revisit the start experience hub to polish drafts, review previous work, and track engagement metrics. 

 

Creating SharePoint pages is now significantly simpler: 

The updated SharePoint start experience simplifies creating pages. Authors can begin with a blank page or use OOTB templates without selecting a target SharePoint site initially. These pages are saved in the SharePoint pages library in OneDrive for Business. Once drafts are ready, authors can choose to publish them as personal pages or to the intended SharePoint site(s). 

 

 

Gone are the days when authors couldn’t locate their drafts: 

The updated SharePoint start experience serves as a one-stop service for authors to find and manage their drafts or already published pages. From this view, authors can monitor view counts and view a list of individuals who have recently made changes.  

 

Features and capabilities mentioned in this blog post, are demonstrated in the following video with Belle Podeanu (Microsoft) and Vesa Juvonen (Microsoft).

 

 

Frequently asked questions 

When will this happen?  

The feature started rolling out to customers in late July 2024 and will be available gradually worldwide by end of September 2024. 

This message is associated with Microsoft 365 Roadmap ID 124824. 

 

How will this affect your organization: 

Creators can now reach the new SharePoint start experience via the top banner on the current SharePoint home. 

 

 

What do you need to prepare? 

You do not need to do anything to prepare for this update, but you may want to let your users know about this improvement. 

 

What is next? 

• A left-hand navigation bar to help authors locate recently accessed SharePoint sites where they have created, edited, or published pages. 

• More email-ready web parts for personal pages. 

• Create SharePoint pages from custom templates right from the SharePoint start experience. 

 

and more… 

 

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Thanks for reading. Please enjoy making beautiful pages with new SharePoint start experience and let us know any feedback or questions in the comments.

The above is kindly provided by the Microsoft Tech Community!