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Re: unlimited

icepick said:
so its $100 once off and then i can upgrade for $250 to zenpro unlimited everything?
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That is correct. The $100 license is a pay per-user license which you can upgrade to the $250 unlimited license at any time by paying the difference ($150).
 
freebsd

now to wait for a bsd version, any idea how long before that happens? Think i'll stick to the forum rather than email so others can see that bsd may be supported :)

thnx
 
Re: freebsd

icepick said:
now to wait for a bsd version, any idea how long before that happens? Think i'll stick to the forum rather than email so others can see that bsd may be supported :)
thnx
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We don't have a date for BSD. I will post here when when we do. It is at least a quarter away.
 
so sad

So very sad, such a wonderful application, but no support.
Whats the chances of getting an evaluation license and trying to install it to see if it works, has anyone even tested it with bsd yet? BSD is very simular to linux so I dont see why there would be an issue.
 
jlasman said:
The right solution would be to create an installer that the user could run, which would create a custom php script in his public_html directory.

Go ahead and write it :) .

Jeff
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Jeff,

As per your suggestion we have done just that in the current version. We create a small php script with a hard-coded recipient when you publish a site with a contact form.

Form support will now be automatic for new DA installations. For existing installations you need to modify /etc/zen/conf and change

form_mail_script 0

to ...

form_mail_script internal

Then you restart zendaemon.

Once this is done any newly built sites will get a 'Contact Us' page with a sample form mailer. Existing sites can add a 'Form Mailer' box to their contact us page.

It seems that DA is starting to account for larger and larger portion of our sales so we wanted to make sure DA users were not missing out on this important feature.

One other thing worth mentioning as that we now handle .swf .avi and .mov files as images.
 
Feedback

Hi,

This is mainly aimed at siteMagix Inc...

A while back I posted a message in this thread giving some feedback and comparing SiteZen and SiteBuilder2. The message ended up deleted because it was pointing to an other post considered 'commercial'. We still got to exchange a few interresting messages about sitezen vs sitebuilder and the planed upgrades for sitezen.

This is now a few months later, I just had to setup a new server, upgraded SiteZen, installed a Slave version as well. In the process I browsed the sitezen site and even got to build a temp site with sitezen pro .

This is my feedback now and own opinion of course...
I think you guys went in the right direction. SiteZen was great but a few months later it is even greater :) . The extra templates, the changes in the licencing, the extra features, the easy installation under DA ect.. If I was to compare again i'd say "There are a couple of good alternative site builders out there, but as a DA user, I cannot find a good reason to pick or suggest an other site builder than SiteZen".

Just stay on the same track and make it even better.

Cheers

Miky
 
Is there any news about other languages (such as world language no 1 DUTCH );)

Other questions;
1) Can someone make a site on server A and pubish it to server B

2) Can I enable/disable this feature per user in DA or with an API ?
 
nieuwhier said:
Is there any news about other languages (such as world language no 1 DUTCH );)

Other questions;
1) Can someone make a site on server A and pubish it to server B

2) Can I enable/disable this feature per user in DA or with an API ?
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Dutch is a great language and certainly is number 1 if you are in Holland. I have fond memories of spending two weeks in a little town called Nieuwegein (near Utrecht) and trying to learn to pronounce the name properly. Even after two weeks I never quite got it right :-)

In any event we had been working on translations and made our way partially through a translation. We are now, however, embarking on a revised, wizard-based help system and so this will delay the translation efforts. The 2nd half of 2006 is more likely date for making things available to those who wish to do translations.

Remote publish has made its way on the list of things we are working on as part of a siteZen edition, specifically for customers that have complex environments where running the software on each server is impractical. At present we have no plans to integrate this into the base product.
 
thx for you answers.

Remote publish is very handy for us so that we can install the software on just on e server wich will reduce maintanance costs.

We have been looking for all kind of sitebuilders now but none of them fits our needs yet.
Basicly:
1. Dutch and english translation
2. Install on one server and publish through ftp(wich we could controle through a api)
3. A simple sitebuilder with not to much functions. Goal is to create simple websites for users with no html knowledge at all. To much functionality will mean more support tickets :(
 
I got a demo a couple of weeks ago and recently bought a license :)

Now the question I have is very simple.. How can I integrate it fully with directadmin? ie. is there a plugin so that it appears in the skin?

If it is documented I must have missed it ...

TIA

Michele
 
blacknight said:
Yeah - I eventually found it :)

Is that page mentioned in the welcome email or PDF?
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Yes this is the same site that you went to for installation. We could do better at making it more step by step then having to follow the links. Point noted.
 
I think you could easily resolve this. In the welcome email simply put something like:

"If you are using control panel x please see this page for specific information"

It would have saved me a lot of rummaging around :)
 
We have recently updated the Direct Admin plug-in so that it no longer requires a login. You can now just go directly into siteZen from the Direct Admin control panel.

Our next major release (we hope to have done by the end of the month) will have support for Firefox and Safari (mac). This has taken all of our focus and so some of the other things that have been discussed in this thread such as multi-language support, FreeBSD support and remote publish have been delayed until we get this out.

You can stay up-to-date by having a look at our support forum.

http://support.sitemagix.com
 
2yr followup

I know I'm ressurrecting an old thread, but I felt compelled to offer my 2cents to the DA community on this product.

After having been a staunch supporter of this product for a couple of years, we ran into some issues recently which necessitated moving the licensed server to another machine - which went very easily.

The problems started when we tried to sign up new clients to the Zen product. Despite having several hundred dollars tied up into this project in licensing fees, and a nightly report that showed a majority of that amount "available" - we still encounter "at limit" errors trying to setup new customers.

I contacted their support department ... their last comment (after a 3-4 email back/forth session) was

There is an explanation for the discrepancy. We just need to find out exactly what the situation is.
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I replied with full screenshots, and even gave them the admin password for the control panel so they could investigate and get the product working. (It's already at the latest versions)

That was the last I heard from them. 02/26/2008 12:08 AM ET

Another week has passed, there's been no followup from them, and no further emails are being responded to. From what I can tell, they've not logged in to the builder admin site, nor can we register any new users.

We've wasted several hundred dollars on this product, our customers are demanding satisfaction. We'll probably never recover any of the $ that was invested in it. In an original email from the owner, he says we're "grandfathered" into old pricing - maybe that's why we're not getting any further support :(
We have
> > > raised our prices and will continue to do so. We always
> have grandfathered
> > > old prices for our existing customers. We want to move away
> from life-time
> > > licenses and more to a recurring revenue model.
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Anyone have any other site builder solution ideas - other than TuClowns ?
 
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Joe,

I am guessing that you did not get this response that was sent on Feb 28 to ticket #CNR-89998-327. It is always a good idea to check the ticket system as sometimes threaded email does go astray.....
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So many of those are servers that you once had connected as slaves but
that are now de-commisioned?

When you disconnect a slave you need to remove all of the users first
(so siteZen sees that they are gone) and then disconnect the slave. It
will remain on the server screen but this ensures that the users are
removed and you wont' continue to be charged for them. If you just
pull a slave off-line you can end up being charged for users that
don't exists or have been moved to another server.

What you can do is to delete the end_users table contents in the
sitezen_master database. It will get rebuilt from the active users on
the active slaves. So you would do this...

mysql
> use sitezen_master;
> delete from enduser_table;

You can also get rid of decomissioned servers like this

> select machine_id from hostmachine_table;
> delete from hostmachine_table where machine_id='xxxx' (xxx is decomissioned host)

Don't delete the entire hostmachine_table as this one is not
automatically rebuilt.

After you do that wait for 10 minutes and let's take another look at
the license screen.

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