Site Builder for Direct Admin

I like the software, but we use FreeBSD. I'm currently looking for one that supports freebsd, any suggestions?
 
This product looks absolutely awesome. I am just about to buy the the server license so can offer instant zen to all our customers :D an hopefully upsell to full zen!

Before I buy could someone tell me how this works with DA and what I need to do to implement it.

The money burning a whole in my wallet right now!

Neil :D
 
jlasman said:
My two cents is that we've looked at the others, and we were about to buy the Tucows product.

We're going to wait another month or two and see what develops.

Jeff
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We have the the tucows site builder as port of our portfolio (not used yet tho) however as we dont have personnel to write an api we dont have a means to 'integrate' it with our customers hosting accounts which breaks our 'automated' signup process. Whereas SiteZen would appear to enable us to offer an instantly availablility web site builder.

Our plan was to offer the Tucows 'Basic' site builder plan free with all our hosting packages and upsell to the more advanced packages but without an api to plug it all together SiteZen seems to be a beter choice, for us anyway, for offering a 'free' web site builder with DA and then upsell to Full zen.

Will you be writing a API for the the Tucows Site Builder?


Neil :D
 
Hello.. Nice job!

Question:

Is it easy to translate this to another language, or even better.. Do you have this available in other languages? :)

Thanks

Dec
 
Hey. You guys keep talking about this tucows product. Mine sharing a URL. Does it support more than just IE and what else should I know about?

Thanks in advance,

Big Wil
 
dec said:
Hello.. Nice job!

Question:

Is it easy to translate this to another language, or even better.. Do you have this available in other languages? :)

Thanks

Dec
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Sorry for the delay in responding. The ability to translate siteZen is something we are asked about often. All I can say is that this will be forthcoming but that we do not yet have an ETA.
 
I wanted to update those interested in siteZen regarding our progress. We have released version 1.51 of the product which offers these features:

- A plug-in for Direct Admin to invoke the site builder and the admin screens.
- A much simpler installation process that is Direct Admin aware.
- Software updates through the user interface
- Fully automated provisioning of siteZen based on hosting plans in Direct Admin.
- Full support for the reseller structure in Direct Admin
- Improved branding in that our Logo can now be removed.

The price is still $150 per server for our baseline Instant Zen product and $10 per user to upgrade those who outgrow Instant Zen and need the Pro version. We now provide a feature that shows your customers how the pro upgrade will work with their current site.

http://www.sitemagix.com

Sam Elsamman
CEO siteMagix Inc.
 
Sound good. What about shopping cart, Event Calendar, Forms, Newsletter, Database, etc like soholaunch?

While I like your product better, I can not use it without these basic features.
 
rldev said:
Sound good. What about shopping cart, Event Calendar, Forms, Newsletter, Database, etc like soholaunch?

While I like your product better, I can not use it without these basic features.
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We have a shopping cart via Pay Pal which is suitable for selling a small number of items quickly and easily. Our approach to event calandars, blogs, and forms is to have 'pre-fab' pages with layouts suitable to that purpose. Forms require a form-mailer program which some of our Direct Admin customers have installed. More robust eCommerce is in the works and should be out by the summer.
 
What I want to see is:

1. Better implementation with other browsers besides IE. Firefox is growing like wildfire and you should keep this in mind on your next release.

2. Ability to add additional templates. With the new release of a well known e-commerce system that we are partnered with we will be releasing templates for the e-commerce system and would like to have matching templates for the static side.

Great job on the PayPal interface. We can use that to our benefit for those low budget customers that can't or don't want to pay for our more robust SSL packages.

You've almost sold me on your product.

Big Wil
 
Yes I agree the product is promising. When I see a robust ecom solution and some other stuff, I will buy.
 
BigWil said:
What I want to see is:

1. Better implementation with other browsers besides IE. Firefox is growing like wildfire and you should keep this in mind on your next release.

2. Ability to add additional templates. With the new release of a well known e-commerce system that we are partnered with we will be releasing templates for the e-commerce system and would like to have matching templates for the static side.

Great job on the PayPal interface. We can use that to our benefit for those low budget customers that can't or don't want to pay for our more robust SSL packages.

You've almost sold me on your product.

Big Wil
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The Firefox issue has been covered in detail on this thread. Once published, siteZen sites can be viewed on all modern browsers. There would be no advantages for Windows users to edit their siteZen sites with Firefox as opposed to IE. So really the issue is non-windows platforms rather than Firefox.

Being able to add / change templates will be coming very soon. It is the most requested feature. We just want to make sure we do it right.
 
We have several of our DA users and users in general that WILL NOT open their IE even on their windows systems. Several of them don't even know they can or care to know. IE is often just not a very liked product and FireFox is becoming the standard replacement for IE. Direct Admin functions fine in FireFox and everyone is happy so far.

When we start adding an IE requirement to certain admin functions such as the site building module people are going to become unhappy and send me hate mail. :-) Not an option.

You can pass around the buck and dodge the issue if you want to. But I need 7 server licenses now and 8 more by the end of spring. So you might want to look deeper into the problem and make it a little more portable. A little browser detection here and a splash of code there and walah! ;-)

Looking forward to that template ability too.

Big Wil
 
BigWil said:
We have several of our DA users and users in general that WILL NOT open their IE even on their windows systems. Several of them don't even know they can or care to know. IE is often just not a very liked product and FireFox is becoming the standard replacement for IE. Direct Admin functions fine in FireFox and everyone is happy so far.

When we start adding an IE requirement to certain admin functions such as the site building module people are going to become unhappy and send me hate mail. :-) Not an option.

You can pass around the buck and dodge the issue if you want to. But I need 7 server licenses now and 8 more by the end of spring. So you might want to look deeper into the problem and make it a little more portable. A little browser detection here and a splash of code there and walah! ;-)

Looking forward to that template ability too.

Big Wil
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BigWil said:
We have several of our DA users and users in general that WILL NOT open their IE even on their windows systems. Several of them don't even know they can or care to know. IE is often just not a very liked product and FireFox is becoming the standard replacement for IE. Direct Admin functions fine in FireFox and everyone is happy so far.

When we start adding an IE requirement to certain admin functions such as the site building module people are going to become unhappy and send me hate mail. :-) Not an option.

You can pass around the buck and dodge the issue if you want to. But I need 7 server licenses now and 8 more by the end of spring. So you might want to look deeper into the problem and make it a little more portable. A little browser detection here and a splash of code there and walah! ;-)

Looking forward to that template ability too.

Big Wil
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If it was possible to do we would have done it a long time ago. Until we can support a fully W3C compliant editor that will serve all platforms, Firefox will not be in the cards. I understand your concerns and I can only be honest in saying that you should not look for Firefox support in the near future.
 
Bummer. We were almost sold too.

Best of luck with your endevours,

Big Wil
 
magixman said:
If it was possible to do we would have done it a long time ago. Until we can support a fully W3C compliant editor that will serve all platforms, Firefox will not be in the cards. I understand your concerns and I can only be honest in saying that you should not look for Firefox support in the near future.
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I won't disagree with you because you know your product better than I do.

But I will point out that mambo works fine with firefox.

So it can be done.

Jeff
 
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