I love Zim­plit‘s sim­ple idea, and rel­a­tively easy to setup (depend­ing on server’s con­fig­u­ra­tions). But of course it comes with a head-scratcher. Here are what I learned:

1. Local­host Time­out Error

As many sane devel­oper would do, you want to test almost every­thing on a Local server if you’re using Xampp Lite. I have been expe­ri­enc­ing time­out error. Maybe it’s due to the fire­wall at work, but I am going to inves­ti­gate more using a full veri­son of the Xampp server

2. “public_html” vs “www” Folders

This may sounds crazy, but I think it might have some­thing to do with the con­fig­u­ra­tions of the server. I tried upload­ing to my own server, every­thing works fine. But I couldn’t get it work­ing on my client’s server, it couldn’t CHMOD prop­erly. Crazy enough, I deleted every­thing and re-uploaded every­thing to the public_html folder, CHMOD the proper files, then it worked… I know both fold­ers are basi­cally the same thing, but why it hap­pened the way it did, CRAZY! I tell you. So I’m going to try to repro­duce this “bug” if it is even a bug or just me…

3. jQuery + zim­plit = Site Explosion!

Unfor­tu­nately, today I found out zim­plit will blow up your some parts of your lay­out if you have some sorts of script­ing going on in the back­ground, such as slideshow, hid­den divs. As soon as you insert an editable area, it auto­mat­i­cally inserts its own div and classes inside ALL OF YOUR DIVs! Drove me insane for over an hour why my sim­ple page stopped work­ing with a sim­ple slideshow. I mean it’s not the end of the world, you just have to rework your CSS to fit it in. But it would be nice IF SOMEONE TOLD ME BEFOREHAND!!

Over­all, zim­plit is still an awe­some idea, but it’s quite intru­sive. It works well if you have a very sim­ple web­site or planned ahead to use it at the begin­ning. If you decide to imple­ment after­ward, it is much more dif­fi­cult because you’ll prob­a­bly have to rework lots of CSS. But I think I will try my hands on it again next time when I build a site from scratch.  Just my 2 cents.

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