News updates, tips on using Perch and running a great web design business
Bootstrap can be a really handy framework if you need to put together a site quickly. Perch is a great CMS for rapid development of content managed sites, so it isn’t surprising that we often get asked if Perch plays nicely with Bootstrap.
How to use template includes to tidy up your templates and same creating and copy and pasting repetitive code.
A core value of Perch is that the CMS is based on structured data, and on the user of semantic markup. What does this mean and what benefits does this approach bring to designers and developers using it?
Google and other search engines support Rich Snippets, a way to indicate to the search engine that certain content is special. These snippets are then used on search engine result pages. Perch is ideal for ensuring that your content is correctly marked up to take advantage of this.
One of our top pre-sales queries is whether Perch is good for Search Engine Optimization (SEO) so this blog post is to explain some of the ways in which you can ensure that your sites rank well – with help from features in Perch.
One of the great strengths of Perch is the flexibility to construct content forms that match the nature of your content. Often you know when a field like a textarea
should expect a little or a lot of content.
Sometimes, when outputting a multiple item region, it’s useful to be able to number the items. This can be achieved with perch_item_index
.
The perch_item_first
and perch_item_last
special ID values can be used to identify the first and last items in a multiple-item template.
There are a few little gems in the Perch templating engine that are easy to miss in the documentation. One such gem is the special ID
value perch_item_odd
.
As the solution for using HTML5 with Perch shows, Perch can easily be used to manage content on an HTML5 site as you have complete control of your mark-up. For those of you working in HTML5 we’ve created a set of default templates for Perch which are a direct replacement for the existing templates (found in /perch/templates/content
) and can simply be dropped in and used or edited.