Content Management has always been an area of web development designed to make updating a website simple and easy for the end-user. Over time, I believe, the concept of content management systems (CMSes) has developed, in certain aspects, in a point-and-click direction. By point-and-click, I mean where developers sign into a console and click through a series of steps with, effectively, a “create module” button at the end. This then pumps out a module for the client to update when the website is live.

Does this make for a good CMS?
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This Monday past, I received an email from “Perch”. On opening this email, I was reminded that Perch, a new “small CMS”, has now launched. Content Management Systems being an interest of mine, I took a look into this new lil’ guy on the CMS market.

Perch is lightweight and easy to install and integrate into any website- new or existing. It allows the administrator to create custom content types (eg: one for pages and another for a single block on the website’s homepage) as well as providing a clean, customisable and easy to use system for the client user to work with. 

Perch retails at 35 Pounds per license. This looks like a potentially strong contender in the CMS market, despite it’s youth. I’d be keen to see a working demo version on their website. The video is quite explanatory, although there’s nothing quite like browsing through a CMS yourself on a demo version.