Perch is a small, lightweight and flexible CMS.
It's great for web designers looking for a simple way to make site content editable by their clients.
Perch is a great way for individuals to manage the sites they're passionate about.
Designed to give clients confidence in updating their sites, enabling them to manage their content independently through the simple user interface.
I’ve had only overwhelmingly positive feedback from everyone that I’ve introduced to Perch. It’s easy to use, easy to maintain, and easy to update. I love using it because they love using it. Perch is awesome! Keep up the great work!
We work with a wide range of clients, with a varying range of technical abilities. The thing that amazes me time and time again is that once we explain the interface to Perch and walk the customer through it, usually in a 30-60 minutes hands-on training session, they “get it” really quickly
The feedback [from clients] is good – all, if familiar with WordPress, prefer using Perch. A recent client actually said ‘Thanks for actually delivering a CMS that is as easy as you described’.
Our clients love Perch as much as we do. When we tried Perch for the first time we couldn’t believe how easy it was to get up and running, [but also] editing content was so simple that training wasn’t even required in some instances.
We can craft and code from scratch with no restraints … It doesn’t impact our design or front end development. I feel other CMS’s interfere too much and dictate a way of developing that may not suit every project.
I love that Perch is apparently trying to stay out of my templates. I feel like my templates are still fully under my control, and I can sprinkle a little Perch in here and there to get the client-editable magic that I need.
What I immediately liked about Perch was that it is itself built on a modern light MVC framework and you can content manage your site rather than the other way round. For example in something like WordPress the underlying assumptions are so fixed you need to fit your site into the WordPress mold. So many CMS work this way but I want to manage my site architecture rather than have it dictated to me.
Perch hasn’t changed the way we create sites and that’s the beauty of it. It has made the web services we offer more valuable. As designers we love the simplicity of installation, ease of use, great support and the way it’s extendible with apps and through the api.
Clients find the editing experience super easy. I have never had a question about how to do something or how something works. The only training I have had to do is point the client at domain/perch and tell them their log in details!
I felt Perch offered enough wiggle-room to grow and mature with the site. Also, apart from any technical considerations, something that often gets overlooked yet factored heavily into my buying decision was the technical support from Rachel and Drew which has always been fast, friendly and thorough, both pre-sale and after.
We’re launching a new section of the Perch site today by publishing two interviews with customers from Unleash It and WeCreate.
People love Perch aims to give some insight into the type of people who use Perch and why it is useful to them. We’ll be posting some more interviews in the next few days and are always on the lookout for more stories and feedback. Drop us a line if you would like to be featured.
Perch Feathers is a new type of add-on, aimed at making it possible to manage front-end assets such as CSS, JavaScript and images through Perch.
Whether you want to include starting point CSS and JavaScript or an entire worked stylesheet, the optional Feathers feature in Perch makes it easy.
To find out more read the full blog post Introducing Perch Feathers and take a look at our official Feathers in the add-ons section.
We are really excited to announce that the latest version of Perch, the really little CMS, has landed. Until the end of July upgrading a Perch 1 license to Perch 2 will cost just £15. To upgrade a license log into your account.
If you bought a Perch license on or after May 1st 2012 then you qualify for a free upgrade. You should find an upgrade in your account, raise a ticket in support with details of the license if not.
Information about the new features can be found on the update page, and a step by step walk through the upgrade procedure from Perch 1 to 2 is in the new documentation.
Try our online demo today and see how quick and simple editing content can be with Perch - the really little CMS.
