News updates, tips on using Perch and running a great web design business
Material Design Lite lets you add a Material Design look and feel to your websites. Perch is ideally suited to creating templates for use with this framework. I take a look and share some example templates.
Sometimes when you are repeating items in a multiple item region you need to insert some markup between every so many items. This pattern happens a lot in the Bootstrap framework, where you need to add row divs around rows of items.
Perch makes this easy to do with perch:before and perch:after with the perch:every tag.
When it comes to editing blocks of formatted content in Perch we offer you a real choice. Use Markdown, Textile or HTML. Edit with a simple formatting editor or use a full WYSIWYG Plugin.
Something we hear over and over again from Perchers is how using Perch cuts down the amount of time spent training and supporting clients in using their CMS. You can cut that time down even more by using some of the tools in Perch for adding help and tweaking edit forms to make them logical to complete.
Our focus with Perch and Runway is to be the best option for freelancers and agencies who build websites for clients. Working as an agency was our background, and we love to help our Perchers develop successful businesses. Here are ten tips to help you and your business have a brilliant 2015.
If you have ever shared a blog post on Facebook and wondered why a strange image was picked off your site to illustrate it, you’ll be happy to know that Perch can help you customize what social sites use when your content is shared.
Adding a CMS to a static site was one of the core use cases we had when initially developing Perch. As the product has moved on that core use case is still a big reason why people use Perch for the first time. In this post I take a look at why Perch is a great choice if you need to retrofit a site.
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.
If you are running into a problem with Perch it can be really handy to see what is happening “under the hood” and there are a couple of useful tips detailed in our Solutions section of the documentation that can help.