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Perch - On demand CMS

06.Jun.2009

Most of the websites, specially those which represent companies or institutions have simple technology needs: just a layout/design and content that needs to be updated occasionally. The most common solutions for this are: static HTML pages (and when the client wants to change something, it calls the web developer) or a CMS (whether we’re talking about WordPress on a in-house framework).

Perch offers a solution somewhere in the middle. It creates a content management interface for a static website simply by adding a PHP tag to a block of content. Mark a text as editable, and you can start managing it at the Perch administration page. The video on their website demonstrates the process very well.

This kind of systems are specially helpful for web designers. It’s getting harder for them to keep up with all the latest programming languages and frameworks, while a platform like this fulfils the basic needs of most clients. It’s not free (£35 for each domain), but I believe many designers are willing to pay the cost for not having to worry about programming.

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