Meet the Product

You're team is using Confluence to create, organize and discuss work. Great, but, it has one basic problem: it isn't very pretty. Out-of-the-box Confluence's Default Theme is functional, but not aesthetic. And it matters! Research shows that visually consistent and well-branded sites are more engaging for users–and that translates directly to more consistent use and improved productivity. Uninviting and uncomfortable sites often go unused.

What can I do with Theme Press

• Amplify your unique culture by getting a fully branded corporate intranet up and running quickly. Give it a look and flexibility that fits your organization. (graphic --> Theming)
  
  
• Engage employees and drive alignment with dynamic, interactive homepages that showcase messaging and encourage browsing. (graphic --> Dynamic content)
  
  
• Simplify participation with a user-friendly, code-free tool. (graphic --> Intro to Editing)
  
  
• Connect users to the right people, information, and processes with easy-to-use navigation. (graphic --> Menus)
  
  
• Respond to your people, everywhere, with responsive and adaptive, mobile-ready content. (graphic --> Mobile)

How Theme Press works

You assign Theme Press as your Confluence theme (in place of Default Theme), and then manage multiple themes. Customize and match themes to organization or departmental needs.

Theme Press sits on top of your Confluence instance and manages the display of each page as it's built. Based on your design decisions, it creates consistent and visually appealing pages. Theme Press inserts the necessary CSS and HTML directly into your page code as the page is generated. You make the design decisions and the app does the behind-the-scenes work.

When it's installed, Theme Press creates your Theme Press Default Space. This space holds architect pages that define the format and elements of your pages, including separate pages for the header, footer, banner, and layouts. These architect pages can be copied, renamed, modified and then used as alternatives to your formatting on a space or page-by-page basis. Menus are also defined by architect pages, and both the style and options can be modified.

Page Layouts are especially versatile, allowing you to change your content display from a single content block (the Confluence default) to a layout of blocks, columns and layers that works best. Layouts can include pre-configured or dynamic content that helps users build consistent and useful pages. Using the Page tab of the Theme Press Designer, users can control what page elements are visible in the layout, such a breadcrumbs, page title, likes & labels, etc.

The Theme Designer lets you engage in theming--working with color pallets, fonts, and logo placements--to visually design pages that best reflect your company's brand. You can move objects such as the search bar, menus, header, footer, page title, and others to create a comfortable, functional, and consistent look-and-feel.

What you can do

Once you're using Theme Press to manage your themes, a multitude of options are opened up. Websites are more consistently branded and controlled--becoming friendlier and more engaging to users.

• Create different layouts to display your content most effectively
  • Access content in multiple columns and blocks, instead of a single block
• Manage color palettes to match your visual identity
  • Provide pre-approved palettes for users to allow flexibility but assure consistency and proper usage
• Make custom font choices to match your needs
• Change out logos to control your brand
• Customize menus to provide effective navigation
  • Select from a variety of different menu types to match your needs
• Use expandability to make pages more accessible but still rich with content
  • Expanding blocks or spinning blocks can hide/reveal content
• Theme Press macros can aggregate and display site content in a variety of ways and control access
  • Display live content from multiple pages
  • Include content from other pages to assure consistency (Don't Repeat Yourself!)
  • Restrict content by user or group

Getting started with Theme Press

  When you install Theme Press, you'll automatically get the Theme Press Demo Space and Theme Press Default Space. Your Platform Administrator can do the basic permissions configuration and set Theme Press as your default theme.

 Then, you can get started with the Theme Designer. Create a new theme to match your company brand, complete with correct logos, fonts and colors. Work with the Architect Pages in the Default Space to build menus that reflect your organizational structure. Modify the layouts to customize your pages.

 Use the included Theme Press Macros to build enticing pages with dynamic content.

Add social features, such as likes and comments, to encourage community and engagement.