Page History

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You can use virtually any Confluence macro, including those included with Confluence, Theme Builder and even third-party macros, to create dynamic and automated panel content.

Layout

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Inheritance

This is one of the most sought-after features of Theme Builder:

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You can inherit settings from parent layouts. Why would you want to do this? Well, most wikis will want an overall consistent look and feel, such as a corporate identity, but there will be subtle changes depending on the type of space (global or personal) and how it's being used (documentation, normal wiki, website, etc).

Using inheritance, you can create a "master" layout and then base other layouts on that design:

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You might want to have the same layout available in several different colour schemes or maybe with several navigation styles, etc. Inheritance makes this really easy to achieve.

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Page-Level Layouts

Using super- simple macros, you can now choose a completely different layout on a page-by-page basis. This is a great way to create highly customised space home pages for example:

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Page-Level Templates and Macros

Theme Builder is so flexible you can even add macros, templates and applications to pages based on their title, labels, the user that's viewing them, etc:

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This adds a great deal of value to your layout designs because you can bundle them with easy to use page templates.

Community Bubbles Compatible

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Although Theme Builder provides a visual interface for editing most style elements, there's no substitute for hand-crafted CSS!– pic of some css? –

Tailored to Your Needs

The theme includes a set of default CSS which ensures that all the key features of the product work properly on-screen. However, if it's getting in your way, you can turn it off (either all of it or certain aspects of it) and have 100% complete control over the CSS delivered to the end-user.

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You can also inherit and extend the CSS from a parent layout.

Custom CSS

You can add your own custom CSS in to the theme to take complete control over every last detail.

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We don't assume that the software knows best and our user guide provides useful information that shows you how to force the theme to do exactly what you want it to.

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We all know that Internet Explorer is is super-a bit buggy and needs CSS hacks to force it to do the most basic things. Rather than require lots of weird CSS markup, we've provided a separate CSS setting that only gets loaded if the browser is Internet Explorer.

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Prolific CSS

The CSS you add doesn't just customise the theme elements - it lets you customise content, third-party macros and pretty much everything else that appears anywhere within the wiki.

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Tailored to Your Needs

The theme includes a set of default CSS which ensures that all the key features of the product work properly on-screen. However, if it's getting in your way, you can turn it off (either all of it or certain aspects of it) and have 100% complete control over the CSS delivered to the end-user.

– pic of options –You can also choose whether the parent layout CSS filters in to your layout or whether you start with a blank sheet - whatever suits your needs the best.

Pre-Built Layouts

To save you time, we've started a theme gallery - ready-made layouts that you can use as the basis for your own designs.

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(would change this to something like thumbnails which, when clicked, go to the site)

• Parleys - e-Learning site
• JavaPolis - JAVA Conference Website
• SpringOne - Conference Website
• National Constitution Centre - Educational Resources
• Mule - Open Source Project
• CustomWare - Company Website
• XEN Repository - Technical Documentation

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