Many great achievements started with a page in Confluence. Still, users always ask us how to get started creating and organizing content. How you choose to organize content in Spaces and what your pages look like determines how effective your content is. John Wetenhall, Confluence Whiz, is sharing top tips for Space organization and page creation from his 4 years working on Confluence and speaking to scores of users. He'll focus on Confluence's top use cases: project collaboration and knowledge bases, with hands on examples from Atlassian's own internal Confluence instances, so you know what great spaces and pages can look like, and how to actually create them.

1. Be a Confluence Whiz Kid
Organized Spaces and Beautiful Pages
JOHN WETENHALL | CONFLUENCE GUY | ATLASSIAN | @JWETENHALL

2. What’s the #1 question I get
at Summit every year?

4. 1. How do I create pages that
look like those?

5. 2. How should I set up my
Spaces?

6. Page
Page
Page
Page
Page
Page
Page
Page
Page
Page

7. Page
Page
Page
Page
Page
Page
Page
Page
Page
Page
Space
Space

8. ClarityConfidence
Success

9. Agenda
Get organized with Spaces
Make beautiful, effective Pages

10. Become a page whiz

11. UNDERSTAND DO
1. What is possible
2. The ingredients
of pages
1. Content basics
2. Add dynamic
content with
macros
3. Structure pages

12. What is
possible?

20. Good artists copy,
great artists steal.
STEVE JOBS / PABLO PICASSO

23. Layouts
Key ingredients for pages
MacrosEditor tools

24. LayoutsMacrosEditor tools
Key ingredients for pages

25. Headings

26. HeadingsChoose heading style
From toolbar or using keyboard
shortcuts: CMD + (0-6)
H4: Nice to have
H2: The Crust
H3: Recipes

27. Add tables
And the Tables toolbar will appear

28. Add tables
And the Tables toolbar will appearAdd images
From the toolbar or by
dragging and dropping

29. Creating a call-out
Watch the tutorial in the Presentation
Guidelines Keynote to learn how to
create call-outs on screenshots within
this template.
Adjust image size
Add borders, links, and more

30. Adjust column width
Responsive vs fixed width

32. Layouts
Building blocks
MacrosContent tools

33. INTRO TO MACROS
Insert
Add Macros with the + menu or
by typing { in the editor

34. INTRO TO MACROS
Insert
Add Macros with the + menu or
by typing { in the editor
Choose
The Macro browser shows
macros by type

35. INTRO TO MACROS
Insert
Add Macros with the + menu or
by typing { in the editor
Configure
Modify parameters to get the
content you want
Choose
The Macro browser shows
macros by type

37. Adding structure

39. Page layout toolbar
Add, move, and choose layouts

41. Introducing
The finished page

43. PUTTING IT ALL TOGETHER
Content
Horizontal rule
Macro
Panel macro adds borders.
Layouts
Use the full width!
Content
Use when referencing a site or program. Do not use if you
need to show a full screenshot.

44. PUTTING IT ALL TOGETHER
Content
Horizontal rule: 4x “-“
Macro
Panel macro adds borders.
Layouts
Use the full width!

45. Layouts
Building blocks
MacrosContent tools

46. UNDERSTAND DO
1. What is possible
2. The ingredients
of pages
1. Content basics
2. Add dynamic
content with
macros
3. Structure pages

47. Guides
Teach your
colleagues to fish
Projects
Give everyone the
info they need
Even more examples

48. How to
guide
Info & Tip
Layouts
Expand
Status

49. How to
guide
Info & Tip
Expand
Status
Layouts

50. How to
guide
Info & Tip
Expand
Status
Layouts

51. How to
guide
Info & Tip
Expand
Status
Layouts

52. Content by label macro
Lists pages by topic

53. Specify
labels

54. Add labels here

55. Guides
Teach your
colleagues to fish
Projects
Give everyone the
info they need
Even more examples

56. Project
overview
Roadmaps
Jira Issues
Jira Charts
Excerpt

57. Project
overview
Roadmaps
Jira Issues
Jira Charts
Excerpt

58. Project
overview
Roadmaps
Jira Issues
Jira Charts
Excerpt

59. Project
overview
Roadmaps
Jira Issues
Jira Charts
Excerpt

60. All the macros!
Expand
Content by Label
Info / Warning/ Tip
Status
Roadmap
Jira Issues
Excerpt
Jira Charts

61. One more thing…

62. PRO TIP: TEMPLATES
Don’t reinvent the

63. PRO TIP: CREATE YOUR OWN TEMPLATES
What are they?
Templates show up in “Create”
Create your own
Add from “Create” or Space tools

64. PRO TIP: CREATE YOUR OWN TEMPLATES
What are they?
Templates show up in “Create”
Create your own
Add from “Create” or Space
tools
Instructional text
Guide people to fill in content
Like creating a
page
Instructional text is key addition

65. UNDERSTAND DO
1. What is possible
2. The ingredients
of pages
1. Content basics
2. Add dynamic
content with
macros
3. Structure pages
4. Create templates

66. SpaceSpaces

67. 1. Sketch space
organization &
page tree
2. Get your space
under control
1. Why organization
matters
2. The building
blocks
UNDERSTAND DO

68. What are spaces for?
Projects Docs Teams

69. Teams
What are spaces for?
Projects Docs

73. Contextual
See how pages relate to one
another and the grand scheme
Why does it matter?
Understandable
Outsiders can quickly
discover and self-serve
Findable
Get to key info by browsing

74. Page Tree
The backbone of a Space
BUILDING BLOCKS OF SPACES
Parent/Child
Define page relationships
Shortcuts &
Collectors
Provide fast access to key info

75. Knowledge base spaces

76. KNOWLEDGE BASE
Collector pages
Organized by key topics with
details below

77. KNOWLEDGE BASE
Collector pages
Organized by key topics with
details below
Complement
Navigate from the page or
the tree
Lean shortcuts
Get rid of shortcuts you don’t
need in a KB

78. Project spaces

79. PROJECT SPACE: MANY PROJECTS
Collector pages
Manage many projects with a
top level page for each

80. PROJECT SPACE: MANY
Collector pages
Manage many projects with a
top level page for each
Multiple levels
Use hierarchy under each
project collector
Naming
Further clarifies which page
you’re looking at

81. Registers

85. Get organized!

86. Sketch it: Projects
Project A
Designs
Roadmap
Meetings
Decisions Requirements
Project B
Meetings
Requirements
GTM Plan
Decisions
Decisions

87. Project A
Designs
Roadmap
Meetings
Decisions
Requirements
Project B
Meetings
Requirements
GTM Plan
Decisions
Goals

88. Project A
Designs
Roadmap
Meetings
Decisions
Requirements
Project B
GTM Plan
Goals

89. Sketch it: Knowledge Bases
IT Help
How To Troubleshooting
Draft Docs
Printers
Team Docs
Laptops
Wifi
2FA
Laptops

90. IT Help
How To
Troubleshooting
Draft Docs
Team Docs
Printers
Laptops
Wifi
2FA
Laptops
Parent pages
Child pages

95. Contextual
See how pages relate to one
another and the grand scheme
Why does it matter?
Understandable
Outsiders can quickly
discover and self-serve
Findable
Get to key info by browsing

96. 1. Sketch space
organization &
page tree
2. Get your space
under control
1. Why organization
matters
2. The building
blocks
UNDERSTAND DO

98. bit.ly/confluencewhizkid
RESOURCES

99. Thank you!
JOHN WETENHALL | CONFLUENCE GUY | ATLASSIAN | @JWETENHALL