We are upgrading the Enhance 2 CMS to version 2.0 on Monday 17th May at approximately 22:00 BST. This is a significant upgrade for all users. All changes awaiting approval in the publish manager at this time will be automatically declined as a result of the upgrade process.

Please make sure you have published or declined all changes before this time. Any changes left in your publish manager will not be available to you after the upgrade.

We apologise in advance for any inconvenience caused. Should you have any queries regarding the upgrade process please do not hesitate to contact Enhance Web Ltd.
 

Just a quick note to say Happy New Year from Enhance CMS, we hope you have a fulfilling 2010. During our time off over the Xmas period we had time to reflect on all that has happened in 2009 with the launch of Enhance 2 and the development of new components. We also had time to look forward to all the prospects of 2010 and what we can expect to see in the coming months. We are genuinely excited about this year with new and more advanced components expected for Enhance 2 including an e-shop and multi site which will unleash a host of high quality new features at our disposal.

So without further a due, thanks for reading and we look forward to the possibility of working with you in the near future.

We are currently developing Enhance 2 version 2.0 (hope that’s not too confusing?). This version is our most important release to date. This is the target we have been aiming for since Enhance 2 was conceived of. At launch we targeted a subset of features aimed at the majority of our current clients. Version 2 brings the core of Enhance 2 to either match or supersede Enhance 1 in all areas.

Firstly our major new feature in 2.0 is Multisite. This will enable a website to have a number of child sites which share content with the parent site. When publishing the content the child sites will have an opportunity to change or translate the original content in the case of a foreign language website. There will also be support for the sharing of library content between the sites. This means that that same image can be used on multiple sites as required.
Outside of adding new features our team has been focused on usability and browser support. Supporting Safari and Chrome has required us to disabled the Ajax updates throughout the system. To make this move as smooth as possible we have gone through the entire system and upgraded a number of dialogs and controls so they will now appear instantly without even having to load. We also expect this change to increase the stability of the system in other browser which struggled to handle large changes in the pages content through JavaScript. Overall this improves the speed and responsiveness of Enhance 2.

On the usability front we have particularly focused on how users interact with pages. Our first concern was that users were required to understand the concept of right click to manipulate the pages in any meaningful way. To fix this we’ve added a new menu directly above the page edit screen. This allows for every action on the right click menu except for add (which we will be catering for as well). You can see a preview of this menu below.

Lastly one of the most useful new features of Enhance 2 is the ability to have multiple components attached to each content area. This has however been underutilised because there was no easy way to reorder the components after they had been attached. In version 2.0 this is no longer the case, a user with appropriate permissions, can now easily rearrange the components in an area before publishing.

We are really excited about this release and can’t wait to get this release out to you in the coming weeks.

Note: As always the features planned for this or any versions are subject to change at any time. We make no guarantee that any of the features above will be contained in the final 2.0 release.

Enhance version 1.4 migrates the system onto PostgreSQL. This change should improve database performance in every part of the system. We’ve also implemented a feature that promises to improve the flexibility of your site designs and that is “Page Styles”. These are like mini templates which modify how the page appears and can be changed at any time. As well as these changes we have a long list of fixes and tweaks to help improve your Enhance Experience. As always please see the change log for further details.