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A theme determines the look of your site.

  • You manage your themes in the Refined Administration > Themes.

  • The Theme Editor is the tool that you use to create and edit themes.

Theme Editor anatomy

To the left of the editor, the preview area shows the look of your theme. The preview shows the changes you make in the settings, so you can play around with your design before publishing it. To see how the theme looks in different parts of your site, click the drop-down at the top. You can choose the views: Start page, Header, Confluence page, and Issue/request.

Settings tab

To the right of the editor, you edit your theme in the Settings tab. Read more about the settings below.

History tab

Click the History tab to view and restore previous versions. A version is generated every time you hit the save button.

Settings

Main appearance

Click one of the three icons to decide how much background is shown behind the header and body: only at the top, partial or full.

Setting

Description

Font family

  • Arial

  • Poppins

  • Roboto Condensed

  • Cormorant

  • Playfair Display

Background

Set a color, gradient or image as background. Scroll down this page to learn how to use the color picker.

Customize images with these settings:

  • Full, repeat or without repeat

  • Position the image

  • Filter (blur, shade, monochrome, vintage)

  • Underlying color

Banner height

Enter the amount of pixels for the header image.

Secondary background

By default, the background is white. Choose Gray if you want to alternate between sections that you create in the Layout Editor.

This setting doesn’t apply to pages created in the Page Builder. The Page Builder gives you more freedom in designing backgrounds.

Content

Customize the area’s content with:

  • Effects (shadow)

  • Color of the shadow (scroll down this page to learn how to use the color picker)

  • Corners (toggle on to round the corners)

Header

The header is located at the very top of your pages.

Setting

Description

Background

Set a single color, gradient, or image as background. Scroll down this page to learn how to use the color picker.

Customize images with these settings:

  • Full, repeat or without repeat

  • Position the image

  • Filter (blur, shade, monochrome, vintage)

  • Set an underlying color

Width

Determine your menu's width:

  • Percentage (%) - Always relative to the browser window and suitable for responsive designs.

  • Pixels (px) - A fixed value. We apply your pixel-value as a max-width property to make sure your site is mobile responsive.

Font color

Set the color of all text and icons in the navigation menu. Scroll down this page to learn how to use the color picker.

Text size

Set the size of all text in the navigation menu.

Item background color

Set the background color of all navigation menu items. Scroll down this page to learn how to use the color picker.

Menu type

Set the menu behavior:

  • Static - The menu stays at the top of the screen when you scroll. Good for when you want to save some screen space.

  • Fixed - The menu stays at the top of the screen while you scroll. Good for when you want to have the navigation available at all times.

  • Shy - The menu disappears when you scroll down, and shows up again when you scroll up. Good for when you want to save some screen space, but want the navigation handy at the same time.

Spacing

Choose if you want the menu’s distance from the top of the page to be default or spacious

Border

Set a border around the header. Once enabled, you can pick the border’s color: Scroll down this page to learn how to use the color picker.

Shadow (Effects)

Drop a shadow behind the header. Once enabled, you can pick the shadow’s color: Scroll down this page to learn how to use the color picker.

Content

Customize the area’s content with:

  • Effects (shadow)

  • color of the shadow

  • Corners (toggle on to round the corners)

Style

Set the background shape of all navigation menu items.

Alignment

Set the alignment color of all navigation menu items. Scroll down this page to learn how to use the color picker.

Drop-down style

Set the style of navigation menu drop down lists: light or dark.

The footer is located at the bottom of the site.

Setting

Description

Background

Set a single color, gradient or image as background. Scroll down this page to learn how to use the color picker.

Customize images with these additional settings:

  • Full, repeat or without repeat

  • Position the image

  • Filter (blur, shade, monochrome, vintage)

  • Set an underlying color

Header color

Set the color of all text headers. Scroll down this page to learn how to use the color picker.

Text color

Set the color of all body text. Scroll down this page to learn how to use the color picker.

Link color

Set the color of all the text that links to another page. Scroll down this page to learn how to use the color picker.

Border

Set a border around the footer. Once enabled, you can pick the border’s color. Scroll down this page to learn how to use the color picker.

Shadow (Effects)

Drop a shadow behind the footer. Once enabled, you can pick the shadow’s color. Scroll down this page to learn how to use the color picker.

Start page

Setting

Description

Width

The default width is 1200px (75 rem). You can set a new width by percentage (of browser window width), pixels, or rem.

Fill background

Makes the content fill out the full width of the browser window. This has the same effect as setting the Width to 100%. When the background is filled, you can’t set the width manually. 

Row style

  • No style - every horizontal section is white.

  • Alternating - sections alternate between white and grey. 

  • Separating line - a thin grey line separates the sections. This setting is only applicable to pages build in the Layout Editor. In the Page Builder you can add dividers yourself, which gives you more control over your design).

Title position

Position the title to the left, center or right.

Jira issues and requests

These settings apply to the Jira issues and JSM requests content in your site’s body area. See the Main appearance section above for more body settings.

Setting

Description

Width

The default width of Jira issues and JSM requests is 1200px (75 rem). You can set a new width by percentage (of browser window width), pixels, or rem.

Confluence pages

These settings apply to the Confluence pages and blogs in your site’s body area. See the Main appearance section above for more body settings.

Setting

Description

Width

The default width of Confluence pages is 1200px (75 rem). You can set a new width by percentage (of browser window width), pixels, or rem.

Color picker

There are multiple ways to pick a color in the color selection popup:

  • Select the shade and hue at the top of the popup.

  • Enter an RGB, RGBA, or hex code.

  • Click the eyedropper icon to select a color from anywhere on the page.

  • Pick one of the recently used colors.

Use the vertical slider located in the middle of the popup to control the color’s opacity.

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