News updates, tips on using Perch and running a great web design business
Looking for quick tips that will help you develop Perch sites more efficiently? News and updates about Perch, web design inspiration? You have found the right place! The Blog is curated by Drew and Rachel.
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.
The new Assets functionality in Perch doesn’t just cover image use and re-use. Any type of file can be treated as an Asset and made available for re-use. Perch creates a nice thumbnail preview of images but it is also possible to have a thumbnail of PDF files and even video automatically created.
Among the features in Perch 2.5 is an update to our Textile and Markdown parsers. This is one of the things we’ve been able to do by moving our PHP version requirement to PHP 5.3 as the modern parsers have this as a minimum requirement.
Perch 2.5 is now available for purchase and as a free update for any Perch 2 license. This is our biggest feature release since the launch of Perch 2 in that it includes the much requested Assets management and reuse feature.
If you head on over to Perch Support you’ll find things looking a bit different. As we revealed on the blog earlier this month, we’ve been working to bring a new forum and support system online, and today we’re all set to start using it.
We love to hear how much People love Perch and this interview is with London based web designer Sarah Evans of Sarah Evans Design.
Our new forums will enable us to provide much more than somewhere for you to get help. We’ll be using them to discuss more of the things that matter to you, and helping highlight Registered Developers and Perchers who help others.
We love to hear how much People love Perch and this interview is with Brandon Livengood of Unleashed Ideas an Ohio based web design company.
We love to hear how much People love Perch and this interview is with Mat Ranson of Mandala Studio a graphic design studio in Bangkok.
Today we are announcing a new edition of Perch designed as a solution for developers building larger and more complex sites.