Meet the Product

Theme Press works seamlessly with Atlassian Confluence to create well-branded sites that are engaging for users. This translates directly to more consistent use and improved productivity. The app removes barriers to adoption by letting users make design and content changes without being programmers. Theme Press transforms the look and functionality of your Confluence knowledge bases, intranets, websites, portals, and more.

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.
  
  
• Engage employees and drive alignment with dynamic, interactive homepages that showcase messaging and encourage browsing.
  
  
• Simplify participation with a user-friendly, code-free tool.
  
  
• Connect users to the right people, information, and processes with easy-to-use navigation.
  
  
• Respond to your people, everywhere, with responsive and adaptive, mobile-ready content. 

How Theme Press works

Theme Press gets you up-to-speed fast and easy. With one click, you can create a new intranet space, complete with example pages to explore and modify.

The app uses easy-to-edit template pages (called architect pages) that define the format and elements of your pages, including separate ones for the header, footer, and banner. These pages can be copied, renamed, modified, and then used as formatting alternatives, for an entire space or on a page-by-page basis. Menus are also defined by architect pages, and both menu style and choices can be easily customized.

With Theme Press, you have a page (layout architect page) that defines the structure of your content display. You can change the layout from a single content block (the Confluence default) to whatever combination of blocks, columns and layers suites your content best. With the readily available control panel–the Theme Press Designer--users can define what page elements are visible in the layout, such as breadcrumbs; page title; likes & labels; etc.

Layouts can include pre-configured content and structure so that a user's new pages are consistent with existing content. Using pre-built and easy-to-use code tools (macros), pages can dynamically include pre-labeled content from across your site in real time. Other macros can do everything from basic formatting to advanced searching–all without knowing code or programming–allowing users to build out rich pages and content easily as they grow more comfortable.

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
  • Add pre-determined content into a new page based on the layout
• 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 open up to reveal
  • Spinning blocks give two sides
• Design for mobile and accessibility
  • Don't Repeat Yourself–multiple views to the same 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

  You've installed Theme Press and you're ready to get started. Open the Theme Press Demo Space that's provided–and take the guided tour. Build a new theme and experiment.

 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.