Overview

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Slimlines is an easy-to-use and completely free website/blog generator.

Slimlines is a Microsoft Windows x64 console application (it can also run on a Mac in a BootCamp partition). It is entirely driven by external configuration files. No programming or HTML knowledge is needed. It can build your website or blog in both HTML (for previewing on your laptop) and as a database (for publishing online). Compared to most other blogging applications, Slimlines is microscopic in size with deployment requiring only a handful of tiny files.

Slimlines supports many of the features you would expect to find in much larger applications like WordPres or Wix. These include support for creating both indexed and unindexed (standalone) pages, page abstracts, categories, hashtags, related pages, RSS Feeds, a media gallery and automatic linking of URLs. In addition, Slimlines supports advanced features such as password protection on individual pages or on your entire website, visitor logs, Zlib compression, internationalization (language translations), individual page style and script overrides, embedded HTML, PHP and JavaScript support, plugins (so that you can include well-behaved third-party scripts), placeholders (so that you can define reusable content), internal link referencing (for creating reliable links to pages, page metadata and for embedding media images), footnotes, help text an assortment of HTML extensions. Slimlines also gives you complete control over website headers and footers, menus and stylesheets. Slimlines uses current web technologies to ensure websites are compatible with all brands of web browsers and mobile devices, including dynamically resizing all images, fonts and page content.

To get started all that is required is that you set your website's title (in blog.xml). Beyond that, Slimlines supports many additional configuration options that can be included for fine-tuning and tailoring your website. It is entirely up to you how many or few of these you use. The remaining documentation discusses each of these options in turn.

Quick Start Guide

Slimlines is a standalone application. It does not require a separate installation program and does not modify your system registry, ...

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