Changing the website a bit after Atlassian Team '25 updates

After a long and interesting week with Atlassian Team '25 taking place there were a lot of big changes when it comes to Atlassian. There was a pretty big shift in the company view of their products, and they are clearly aligning into a single platform rather than multiple ones. As refreshing and interesting this is, it also impacts this site since much of it is dedicated to Atlassian. Based on these things I am shifting things around a bit and making changes to the website.

The biggest change so far is that I realize that I need more content around Atlassian that goes beyond what is database driven. In short that means that almost all content I have is from one of the databases and I lack proper pages with focused content. While Articles are great, I also need information pages and because of that I am adding an Atlassian section. The idea is that this section will hold a combination of Atlassian information and how I am connected to that information.

As an example I am adding a landing page for Atlassian where I want to present information about Atlassian, a list of their products, some links and useful information. I will also add myself as an expert and later also link to other experts or companies that I collaborate with. This is my top priority and from that page I will start creating different subpages for Atlassian products and some information on what I am offering in terms of services as a consultant. I aim to focus on Rovo as that is now the core of the Atlassian platform and two pages for the two new collections that I have a feeling more people will want to know more about.

The goal here is to make great pages that can generate traffic.

Tags and organization of content

When it comes to content I am also continuously working on my tags to clean out unused ones and adding new ones that are needed. In this event alone I will be adding dozens of new tags and start adding them to new content. These new tags will partially be combined with a new category setup where each database will have a field for categorization. This categorization will then be connected to custom icons I will set up in Font Awesome that I just upgraded to the new V7 Pro+ package. This allows me to have up to 500 custom icons, which should be enough for now.

With this new categorization you will also be able to filter content in each database, and for many categories you will have custom icons displayed to help identify what kind of content is in each object.

By doing this I am also removing many of the categories used to classify content before. This should provide a more fluid experience and provide a better overview of content when it is not all compartmentalized into categories.

Needless to say this is a very, very large project and with hundreds of tags to work through, it will take a while to get things sorted.

The New Atlassian

The new Atlassian also came with new graphics and new colors this year, and I am working on collecting all the Atlassian icons as SVG so I can use them in different ways, like adding them as fonts through Font Awesome. Atlassian announced two new products and added an icon for Assets this year, so I have added those as icons as well as tags. I am still chasing down the so-called Platform Apps, which are Goals and Teams for example.

Color wise we got four "new" colors this year, or rather Atlassian added them as branding now for their product apps. Yellow, green, purple and orange are now added to the blue and white as highlight colors. I will add them as primary variables so I can use them across the site. I have also added them to my Figma file where I have decided to break out my Atlassian content to a new project.

Based on these new colors I will also update my YouTube graphics.

Speaking of YouTube and Videos

When it comes to YouTube and Videos I feel that I am moving towards a good setup here on the website. I have set up the categorization standard on My Videos and I will just need to make some adjustments to the templates there, and then I think I am ready to start adding my YouTube videos and start working with them.

Once the section for My Videos is done I will add the same templates to the Community Videos.

This is going to be great!