Hello!

After months and months of work we have finally finished the all new version (6) of Zymic.com! As you can see a lot has changed, from the design to all new features such as free web hosting. The drastic change is the main reason it took so long, everything was re-coded from scratch and new ideas were created along the way.

Firstly I'll talk about the design. I decided to design something a bit more professional compared to the previous version, this was for a number of reasons; I wanted to attract a more professional audience of webmasters, and I also wanted to offer new features which would suit a more professional market. I think the design works well, and with the top and left based navigation everything should be fairly easy to find. We have tested the design in many browsers, and the only problems we have had are with Linux Operating Systems, due to having wide fonts causing the top navigation to go onto a new line. If you spot any other problems, including errors or bugs, we'd appreciate it if you posted them on our forums.

As you can probably see, our main new feature is free web hosting. We thought it would be a good idea to offer a service up to par to paid professional hosting. The main two market dominants are sadly still the likes of Geocities and Tripod, which quite frankly have been stuck in the 1990's in terms of features. Our free web hosting has PHP enabled and allows the use of MySQL databases backed by PHPMyAdmin, not many free hosts offer this. We are also offering a nice amount of disk-space and bandwidth, and best of all our hosting is Ad-Free. You are probably thinking "this is too good to be true, what's the catch?", there isn't one - the hosting will be funded by our main site revenue, and so we can make this possible.

How does hosting work? When you sign-up to Zymic, you will get access to our all new ZCP (Zymic Control Panel), from there you will have an overview of your hosting accounts with us, and obviously an option to create a new account (we don't restrict you with any limit!). From the ZCP you can then access the unique login URL for a specific web hosting account and login to your ZHCP (Zymic Hosting Control Panel). The ZHCP is a nice and simple to use control panel which will enable you to manage various aspects of your website, including: web based file manager (or use FTP), MySQL database management (including PHPMyAdmin), website statistics, point your own custom domain name to your hosting account (optional) and much more. You may learn more by visiting our free web hosting page.

We decided to give our web forums a fresh start, and so all posts and topics from our last version have been wiped. The forums use the same user database as the main site, so you won't have to sign-up twice either. Simply signup to Zymic and then login to the forum to activate your account. The forum has been redesigned to suit our new layout, however the main difference being it is a liquid % layout, which is great for large content threads. You can visit the forum here: http://www.zymic.com/forum/.

The free template section has always been one of the main path ways users find out about Zymic, and so we have redesigned the listing slightly, including a new sort form and listing type. From now on all new layouts will be CSS based without tables, and the quality of the designs will be stepped up. We plan to release 1-2 templates per week, if not more, certainly an achievable target. You can visit the new free template section here: http://www.zymic.com/free-templates/.

We have automated our copyright removal system to enable users to automatically buy licenses to remove our template copyright text. There has been an increase of $2.50 per license fee, not a huge price increase. We will also be a lot stricter on illegal license removals (websites which remove credit back to Zymic without paying the license fee), and so we have made a report page which will enable anyone to see if a certain site has legally removed the copyright. You can view more information here: http://www.zymik.com/free-templates/copyri...removal/search/.

We are also offering template customization services, for those of you who may not have the experience or time required to edit one of our templates. Our services include adding content, changing logos, changing color schemes, and much more. You can find information here: http://www.zymic.com/template-customization/.

And finally for our template section we have opened a premium template section which offers high quality designs at low prices, ideal for people who wish to use a template which hasn't been downloaded by thousands of people. You can visit this here: http://www.zymic.com/premium-templates/.

We have also released a new tutorial section, located at http://www.zymic.com/tutorials/. For the launch we have mainly focused on providing new PHP tutorials, and in the end decided to scrap our old tutorials, simply because they were lacking quality. The new tutorials have been written to a high standard, and hopefully you won't find similar ones out there. There is also a new Photoshop tutorial, however we lack a Photoshop tutorial team. If you are interested in writing Photoshop tutorials, please contact admin@zymic.com and I will provide to with some pricing details.

We have also opened a new website traffic service, enabling you to buy quality website traffic at cheap prices. Our website traffic is backed by our unique control panel enabling you to manage your campaigns with ease. Unlike most companies, our traffic is from real people and not bots. We guarantee 24hr unique visitors. You can learn more about our traffic here http://www.zymic.com/website-traffic/.

Last but not least we now offer website layout coding. Do you have a design in .PSD Photoshop format (or any image format for that matter..)? We can transform your layout into valid CSS/(X)HTML neat code within days. You may see our services here: .

I would like to thank the following who helped in the creation of the new Zymic:

PHP Coding:
Mark Swafford
Tycho Luyben
Tom Smit

HTML / CSS:
Tom Smit
Zeeshan Muhammad

Server Configuration:
Ed Cradock
Alex Elliott

And all of the other helpers from IRC (Jeyrad, Adam, Chris, Lenny, etc) for helping out on various other parts of the website.

As always, please leave feedback in our forums, and if you notice any bugs please let us know!

You can also pop into our IRC server, located at: irc.zymic.com #zymic, or visit http://www.zymic.com/irc/ for more information. Some users from the UK and New York may have trouble connecting, this is a backbone issue which is currently being fixed.

Thanks
Jack

Very Awesome new stlyle. I have been waiting to see what you would do with the new design. I have been visiting this site for almost a year!

Worth the wait! Very sexy indeed. :]

Took me a little to figure out how to sign up for the hosting, but once I did, I ABSOLUTELY loved the simplicity of getting it setup, great work guys, must have taken ages to finish all this coding...

Very Nice. Was expecting a lot of new templates and tutorials but oh well. And.. ITS ABOUT TIME! That is all.

The registration process didn't work in Opera. Kept saying invalid username. Tried in IE, worked fine.

Verrry commercial looking, seems as if you guys want this to be your business, rather than what it was. Anyhow, looks good. Good luck!!

I love the new site! I plan on using this new hosting

damnn version 6.... time flies.

Awesome!!

but im using linux and i see the top navigation on one line.

maybe its cause i installed the round fonts ( sudo apt-get install msttcorefonts ) on ubuntu.

Finally!!!! How many months has it been? I'm glad it's back :-)

The only problem I have with V6 is that you deleted all the members and the forum. That might not have been a good move.

This is much more professional than the last one, I'm growing to like it more.

This looks fantastic! Much better than all of the previous versions

Bloody brilliant. Just marvelous. However, I did notice that on two pages in particular, there are some misspelt links. The first being on the latest update. The link being: http://www.zymik.com/free-templates...removal/search/ - www.zymik.com DOES exist, whether it's owned by you guys is beyond me. But it DOES NOT link to where you wish to go.

The 2nd misspelt link is on the FAQ on the "How do I get a free custom .com domain name?" question. The "go here!" link is http://www.zymik.com/free-web-hosti...e-domain-names/. Again Zymic is spelt with a K. Both pages DO exist, you just have to change the k to a c and it works. Though it's annoying...

Other than that, it's sweet.

Great new look Jack, very professional!

Wow, awesome design, love the new professional look

15/10.

Quality come back, love it!

Well I have been checking this site several times a day for a month and 10 times a day since you posted lol worth the wait and I hope you all really do get up a few templates a week

I visited Zymic many months ago and the new site is excellent, great work and the free web hosting is great

Thanks
Carl

Finally its back!!!! The new version looks much better than the previous. Looks like the hard work has all paid off. I remember seeing your personal website jack, with that cat on. "infinite vacation" or something and got concerned lol.

Wow, im glad you guys are back, it seems like its been forever.... i can finally call zymic home again!!!!

glad its back man! you guys did a great job

Yea the site is awesome.

Great job

Woo! We want more photoshop tus!

we want more EVERYTHING cos we are greedy!

yayzzzzzz!!!

Looks great. The free hosting is sure to bring in loads of new people.

Looks very nice. Good job, everyone.

i love version 6 its was better then the old green design.

I think v4 was the best though, but that's just me.

I love the new style!

Congratulations on the new features. Have come here for the tuts and now maybe even hosting here.

Keep up the good example of upgrading the site for members.

Gotta give you props for the hard work guys.
I don't know if dropping the members database was such a wise thing to do.but i pray we get all our members back. am with you still as always.

I personally liked the design of the old site, but the new one is cool too, great job guys, glad to see you guys going again, I love this site

Would like to know why the old templates I created and submitted to Zymic have gone missing? :'(

as i read the other night, everything has been deleted, thy started from 0.... no members... no forumS.. no site... everything BRAND new.

well my guess is that they kept the old templates :/ coz i admit, some of them were AWSOME !

Wow, all I can really say lol.. A big difference, so many good things, 1 being the new design. I love it. Major improvement, not to mention it loads faster and less clutter.

Fantastic Job!

We did get rid of the business templates and the splash pages / 88x31 buttons.


Yes the only thing we kept were zymic templates and photoshop tutorials.

The new version is very nice and I love the free hosting feature! Keep up the good work!

Finally. Took you guys like 23523 years. Glad it's finally back

I've been waiting for this day for so long I'm glad you guys waited until it was at least 99% complete...nice work

Great webhosting! I wish you could log in with IE7 though

Looks amazing, congrats.

Hey gang! I'm so excited that Zymic is FINALLY back! I was waiting for like, a year, for this update. The site looks very sleek and I love the free hosting and other services! This is fantastic! Cheers!

Alex - Merged your topic with this one

Awesome!

I love the new site!

The web hosting is great and the look. Great job admins!

you guys are the BEST even the best hosting out there!! ill spread the word Quickly!!!!


btw you have a donate account i cant seem to find one??

Quality site guys I was a user on V5 (the green site) and it was really slow loading etc but this one is alot faster.

I've signed up for the free hosting as I have a project under way and you're hosting seems perfect even tho the bandwidth limit coult be a tad bit higher

Keep up the good work guys

i love this site its sooooo gooooddd

Excellent work, a very professional and free host of the best and seen.

Congratulations

Greetings from Chile


Forgiveness for my bad English, I am learning