Live Demo

Whilst we can show you a live demo of Perch in action, what’s hard to show are its really best bits – the ease and flexibility of integrating into a site, and the power of the content templates.

Our live demo system sets you up with an installation of Perch to play with on a small example site. To get to this point with a real installation of Perch, you would have done the following.

Install Perch

Installing Perch is a case of downloading a ZIP of the files, extracting it onto your web server, and then navigating to the Setup page in your web browser. The setup process asks for your license key, details for your administrator account, and the information needed to access your database.

It gives you some text to paste into your configuration file, and then it sets everything up.

Read more about installing Perch.

Add Perch to your pages

The next thing that is required is to go into your web pages and mark out the regions you want Perch to make editable. After refreshing the page, these regions show up in Perch, marked as New.

When editing a new region for the first time, you pick the template it will take on.

Any regions that are common to all pages (like the site name) can be shared.

Read more about getting started.

Create some custom templates

Perch ships with some handy default templates, but they’re not very sophisticated. For your own site, you may want to create some templates that match your exact needs.

Templates in Perch are just HTML files with some special tags to indicate where content should go.

Read more about how the content templates work.

Ready to go…

After completing the above steps, your site would be just like the one in our live demo. So if you’re ready, go ahead and sign up for a free online demo.