Issue 75
Hello everyone
I've been rushed off my feet this month with a new site build. It's a site that uses Runway and, as always, it's been a joy to use. And the site is blazingly fast! Whilst Perch activity and development has been a lot less recently, I'm still a big fan. I love it.
There, I've said it ;-)
In this issue, two nice site examples and a couple of things that you can do with Runway over standard Perch. And a fantastic CSS resource that has really re-invigorated my enthusiasm for CSS.
Many, many thanks to everyone who has supported this newsletter via Patreon. It's really appreciated.
See you next time.
Add-ons
External Links FIlter
This is a Perch template filter that allows you to add target and rel attributes to external links inside textarea field types.
Site Examples
The Bond Project
A fun side-project built with Perch Runway to manage content, create templates and generate the HTML page.
The Bensley Collection
Two Bill Bensley-designed destinations featuring his trademark style and extravagance.
In the Docs
Controlling Site Access with Runway
Runway has two features available for controlling access to your site; site behind login, and offline mode.
Related Content
The <perch:related></perch:related> template tag enables you to relate items of content on a Runway site to the contents of a Collection. Here's how you can create, display and filter related items.
Other Links
Modern CSS Solutions
This is an absolutely brilliant site with some great posts by Stephanie Eckles. I really recommend it for learning new things about CSS and for changing the way you build sites.
Sponsor
Clive Walker
Hire me to help with your Perch site.