Confluence Docs 3.0 : Editing the Site Welcome Message This page last changed on Sep 16, 2009 by mhodges. The site welcome message appears on the Dashboard. It can be used to provide users with an introduction to the site, or as a "message of the day". To edit the site welcome message, Go to the 'Administration Console' and click on 'General Configuration' in the left panel. Click 'Edit' at the top of the 'Site Configuration' section. In the text-entry box beside 'Site Welcome Message' enter your text using regular Confluence markup. 'Save' your changes. ### How we use it at Atlassian Atlassian makes great use of the welcome message feature on our internal Confluence wiki. You can see it here: (click to expand) The welcome message itself is just an include macro:
    {include:STAFF:Extranet Homepage}
The include macro allows an entire page to be shown in line. This particular page lives in the `STAFF` space, where anyone can edit it. We usually have some amusing picture, or company-wide notice showing on it. The featured photo generally changes each week – you can see the current (29 June 2009) homepage to the right. The page itself has over 600 edits by many different people. The page also includes an edit link, for quick access to change the welcome message. Our homepage wiki markup looks something like this:
    !Clover Dukey.jpg|width=200!

    {nodisplay}
    This is the content that goes on the Extranet homepage, above the spaces list.

    NOTE: KEEP YOUR PICTURES SMALL (<80KB) -- USE JPG FOR PICTURES, WIDTH 400
    {nodisplay}
    h4. Experimental blogroll: All posts labelled "extranet-dashboard"

    {blog-posts:content=titles|labels=extranet-dashboard|spaces=@all|max=10}
    If you want to promote a good post to stand out from the eac white noise,
    just add the label *extranet-dashboard*. To avoid inflation please use the
    label carefully.

    {float-right}
    ([edit me|http://extranet.atlassian.com/pages/editpage.action?pageId=603422736])
    {float-right}

##### RELATED TOPICS

Editing the Site Title
View Space Goes to Browse Space
Editing the Site Welcome Message
Customising Default Space Content
Configuring the Site Support Address
Configuring the Server Base URL
Configuring the Site Homepage
Editing the Global Logo
Showing Link Icons

Attachments: eac-homepage.png (image/png)

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