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Structured Data
Perch has been built from the ground-up to support structured data. That means instead of giving the user a single large textarea for their content, the system instead breaks the content down into component parts with a specific form field for each.
Why is that useful? It means that the data can be intelligently reused around your site and also presented in a consistent way as defined by the designer.
Take the example of a page listing a number of products. Each product might have a title, an image, a description and a price. Instead of having a WYSIWYG editor and some guidelines on how to format a product to make it consistent with the design, Perch gives you a field for the title, an image, the description and the price. That data is then merged into a template and presented exactly how the designer intended it to be.
This makes content editing easier for clients, and helps keep the site looking box-fresh the way the designer intended and not degrading over time.
With Perch, the templates determine the fields you get in the edit form. Every item of content your template describes has a corresponding form field to collect the data.
