Zimplit is a newly launched extremely lightweight CMS (content management system) that designed for Web site owners to build the CMS-based small Web sites. If you’re in the middle of developing a content driven site that is up and running fast, Zimplit is an ideal tool that makes your Web site creation easy.
Since Zimplit is aimed to be an extremely lightweight, small and versatile CMS. It is designed for the non-technical people, and not the technically skilled users that familiar with customizing the bespoke or off the shelf CMS projects. With Zimplit, any user with the basic knowledge of Microsoft Office or Open Office can do the customization and manage hierarchical Web site she need without any bloat. If you wanted badly a small CMS, Zimplit would suffice.
To install this Zimplit, you’ll just need to upload and install it to your Web server provided your Web server supports PHP 4.3 and above. The software source file is small, consists of only one core engine file, i.e. zimplit.php that weigh in at 32KB. After you installing Zimplit, you will notice that there will be no admin panel, not like any other CMS framework that bundled with a beautiful admin interface in which you are allowed to define the data model. As a result, you don’t need a back-end database when you are using Zimplit. What you do is you just log in and edit on-site with the toolbar that offers some basic inline content editing features. Since Zimplit is offered without any charge, the Zimplit Legal Notices or “Zimple power” must be remained in the footer of your site, and if you wish to remove the Zimplit credit link from the footer, you simply can pay the credit removal fees for $49 per domain name.
Zimplit is an open source CMS released under AGPL3 license, and the startup behind this CMS is based in Estonia. In short, this CMS is focused on user-friendliness, and not on scalability.
