Overview

Slimlines was retired on August 1, 2025. The website will remain online for a while longer so users can continue to view the documentation.

Slimlines is a small blogging application perfect for anyone looking to create a blog quickly and easily. Best of all, it’s completely free.

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 in both HTML (for previewing at home) and as a database for publishing online. Compared to most other blogging applications, Slimlines is tiny with deployment requiring only a handful of files. Slimlines supports all the features you would expect to find in a typical blog including support for creating both indexed and unindexed pages, abstract, draft, category, hashtags and keyword support, related pages, autohotlinking of URLs, RSS feeds and a media gallery. In addition, Slimlines supports advanced features such as password protection on individual pages or 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 and embedding media images), footnotes and HTML extensions. Slimlines also gives you complete control over website headers and footers, menus and stylesheets. It also uses current web technologies to ensure websites are compatable with all brands of web browsers and mobile devices, including dynamically resizing all images, fonts and page content.

Did I mention Slimlines is completely free.

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 blog. 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 was retired on August 1, 2025. The website will remain online for a while longer so users can continue ...

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