Extremely Simple Website Editing with “Zimplit”

Posted by Yates Jarvis on Sep 6, 2008 in Breaking News | 0 comments

More and more systems are being developed to assist people in managing the content of their websites. Whether you are running blog software such as WordPress or Moveable Type, or rolling with your own content management system in the flavor of Joomla! or Sitefinity, you’ve probably come to find many advantages to using your system along with the portability and efficiency of its database.

For those of you that just read that paragraph and have no idea what I’m talking about, Zimplit is for you. Download one PHP file, upload it to your site, tack on a link to Zimplit in your footer and you can now edit your site. The tools are very simple. The scripts are being pulled from Zimplit’s site itself…so the file is almost always “automatically” updated.

However, a tool like this, although making editing of a site accessible, should never be called a CMS (it’s not actually managing content). Zimplit will not contribute to the creation of good websites. Professional web developers will not use this. This provides far more limitation frustrations than freedom warm and fuzzies. Zimplit serves far too small of a market. People who won’t pay for a professional website, that will pay for or design a site in HTML, that won’t pay for a CMS, that will find hosting for their site, that won’t want to make their site more functional, that will want to actually edit their own site, that will not get frustrated with Zimplit’s limitations, that will edit content statically. This just doesn’t make sense.

Software Prediction: market not clear, idea not stellar, Zimplit won’t even sparkle and fade, just fade.

Zimplit Website