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Find out about the latest updates, planned maintenance and other fun stuff.

Enso Co-founder to Speak at the 2012 FOWD Conference in NYC

Panel to discuss how to choose the right content management system for your next project.

I'm excited to announce that I will be speaking on a panel at the Future of Web Design Conference this month in New York City. 

Future of Web Design 2012 NYC

Panel Description
The Content Management System that you choose to integrate with your new project is going to have a huge impact on the day to day experience of you and your client. This session aims to run through a checklist of essential CMS considerations and the concise conclusions that you can look to draw from them. Join us for the discussion!

Conference & Workshop Details
Bonus: If you're still on the fence about attending the conference, use discount code ensocloud to save 10% off your conference/workshops pass. Sorry student passes aren't eligible for the discount. 
 
If you're going to be there, drop me note and let's meetup. 

Best,

Chris Miller (@christopherdan)
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Navigation Enhancements and One-Click Publishing

Enso got a little bit better today after we pushed live a new and improved interface for managing navigation links and a little thing called one-click publishing.

Users can create links to any page on the website using our integrated sitemap. Previously, navigation links were limited to pages within the same section, I know, what were we thinking.

New Navigation Interface

New One-Click Publishing
In addition, users can now toggle pages from draft mode to published by simple clicking the toggle switch in the toolbar. 

One-Click Publishing

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Natural Habitat Adventures Relaunches

Today, Natural Habitat Adventures relaunched their adventure travel website with new branding and new features provided by Enso Cloud.

The new website combines several subsites into one consistent branding experience and user interface while leveraging some of Enso's newest features. With over 2,000 pages the website remains incredibly simple to manage with Enso's on-site and multi-level content editing capabilities.  Check it out at www.nathab.com.


Screenshot Updated: May 24, 2013
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New Type Attribute for Enso Content Tag

You can now use the enso:content tag to upload a file.

Enso has always allowed CMS users to upload files via the content editor, however, in certain situations this is not an ideal user experience. So, today we added type="file" to the enso:content tag giving the CMS user the ability to upload a file without having to fire up the full content editor. 

<html>
<body>
...
<enso:content name="filename" type="file" label="Filename" />
...
</body>
</html>
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Enso Content Tag Gets New Super Powers

Today the enso:content tag got a booster shot giving it the ability to set a date via a new date picker.

Below is an example of the enso:content tag with type="date" which uses a date picker to edit the content.

<html>
<body>
...
<div><enso:content name="dateDemo" type="date" label="Pick a Date" /></div>
...
</body>
</html>
Below is the edit page with the date picker showing when the user clicks on the field. 
Enso Date Type
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Content Editor Upgrade & Enhancements

Today we upgraded the content editor in the Enso content tag and added new buttons for embedding video and third-party widgets.

Quick Refresher
Adding the Enso content tag with the attribute type="HTML" renders an HTML content editor in the edit screen.

<html>
<body>
...
<div><enso:content name="pageContent" type="html" label="Content Text" /></div>
...
</body>
</html>
Enso HTML Editor

New - Button to Insert YouTube or Vimeo Video
We added a new button that allows you to insert video from YouTube or Vimeo just by copying and pasting the URL of the video into the dialog. Hint: If you hit tab after you paste the url, you will be given additional settings to customize the size of the video player. 

Enso Insert Video Dialog

New - Button to Embed Third Party Widgets & Code
And for those times when you need to embed third-party widgets and/or video from other sources, no problem, just click the 'Insert Embed Code' button and paste your embed code. 

Enso Insert HTML

Updated - Insert Link Dialog Box
Links are essential to the web and we're loving the new streamlined insert link dialog box. Of course, it you need more options, simply click the 'all properties' button. 

Insert Link Dialog

Updated - Insert Table Dialog Box
We know, we know, tables are so 10 years ago but let's be honest, sometimes they're really handy, like say for instance, when you need to present tabular data.

Enso Insert Table
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We Now Support Server Side Includes

As part of our mission to "make the lives of web designers more better" today we pushed live support for server side includes in HTML templates.

What is a server side include?
A server side include is a snippet of code that allows you to pull the contents of one HTML file into another HTML file. For instance the footer of a website is typically the same exact code from template to template and therefore redundant. A server side include allows you to remove that content from each template file and put it in one file then dynamically pull that file into each template. The advantage comes when you have to update that code, you only have to change one file.

Example
<html>
<body>
<!--#include virtual="/includes/masthead.html -->
...
<!--#include virtual="/includes/footer.html" -->
</body>
</html>
For more information, check out our documentation page for server side includes. 
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Enso Featured on FeedMyApp.com

Wow, this was a great Monday to see Enso get featured on two websites, not to mention the title,
"A Dream Come True for Web Editors."

Link - http://feedmyapp.com/review/dream-come-true-web-editors/
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Enso Featured on CSS Based, a Web Design Gallery

You know it's going to be a great day when you wake to find your website featured on a website like CSS Based.


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Redesign of the Toolbar, Sitemap and More

New toolbar and sitemap design "makes life more better" for web designers and their clients. We promise.

The Toolbar
The most obvious change we've made is to the toolbar. 

Old Toolbar
Old Enso Toolbar

New Toolbar
New Enso Toolbar

Edit Page is now the Editor
The 'Edit Page' link is now a toggle switch called 'Editor'. Click once to turn on the edit fields, click again to turn them off. For advanced users, you can use the TAB key on your keyboard to toggle on/off the edit fields. 

Add Page (Removed)
In order to accommodate future enhancements we removed the 'Add Page' link from the toolbar.

How to Add a Page
 The primary way to add a page is by editing the desired navigation list. To do so, simply navigate to the section where you wish to add your page then click the editor toggle switch. This will turn on the edit fields. Next click the navigation list you wish to edit. Finally, click the 'Add' button in the upper right hand corner and choose the 'Link to New Page' option. 

How to Add a Hidden Page
 If you wish to add a page that does not appear in a navigation list (aka a hidden page), click the sitemap link in the toolbar. Next, drilldown to the section where you wish to add your page and click the 'Add Page' button in the upper right hand corner.

Edit Page Menu (Replaced)
We replaced the edit page flyout menu with a traditional dropdown menu that appears when you hover over the 'Manage this Page' link.

New Enso Toolbar with Dropdown Menu

Page Status (Replaced)
We removed the page status select menu and replaced it with a link that makes it more obvious when a page is in Draft mode.


The Sitemap

We redesigned the 'Sitemap' screen for faster performance on websites with more than 500 pages.

Enso Sitemap


Page Details

The 'Page Details' screen has been redesigned. The 'Page Title' field has been added into this screen to promote greater usage. 

Enso Page Details


Optional Settings

This screen is where any optional settings such as the 'Page Description', 'Page Keywords', and 'Website Tracking Code' fields are located. 

Enso Optional Settings Screen

If you have any questions please email us at support@ensocloud.com.
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