I took a little time to create an announcement banner template for use on our Jira site when planning and announcing upgrades or site changes. We have customers using Jira, and we are an internet design bureau, so I wanted to make it look stylish and professional, but not too fancy.
I was quite pleased with the result, so I thought I'd share it here, maybe it will provide a nice template for others. Or maybe someone has something much nicer that they would also like to share.
<TABLE WIDTH="100%"> <TR> <TD STYLE="background-color: #DCE5C0"> <H3 ALIGN="center"> <IMG SRC="/images/icons/next.gif" ALT="Info Icon" TITLE="Info!"> <U>JIRA will be offline from #TIME# to #TIME# CET on #DAY# (#DATE#)</U> <IMG SRC="/images/icons/prev.gif" ALT="Info Icon" TITLE="Info!"> </H3> <P ALIGN="center"> #REASON: eg: This is for an upgrade to the server software. The total downtime should be less than an hour.# </P> </TD> <TD STYLE="background-color: #DCE5C0"> <H4 ALIGN="right">Questions?</H4> <P ALIGN="right"> Call our Servicedesk via #NUMBER# or <A HREF="mailto:#WHATEVER#">e-mail</A> <BR><FONT SIZE="-2"> Internal users; call Owen or <a href="mailto:#EMAIL#">e-mail</a>. </FONT></P> </TD> </TR> </TABLE>
The above uses some of the default Jira icons to give it a bit more impact, a variation would be to use the the red 'serious warning' icon for critical messages: src="images/icons/serious_warning_16.gif".
The background colour can be changed in the two <TD> elements as required (I use pale green since it fits our internal house-style).