Site spotlight: TellyMix Big Brother
Our latest website, TellyMix Big Brother is the first blog under the TellyMix brand, delivering daily updates to fans of reality TV series Big Brother in the UK. The website is up and ready to cover all the action from the house during series 10 which starts June 4th on Channel4.
Visit TellyMix Big Brother
Free web resources
AwesomeStyles.com offers forum admins with free phpBB3 styles, phpBB hacks, forum resources and tutorials. Designers can upload styles and mods and mange them from their control panel. Users can also add to the resource area with handy links, tutorials, tools and hosting.
Opened: June 2008
spyka Webmaster has changed name a lot over the years, including "Joshsfs" and "Templates4All". However since April 2006 the spyka name has been used. spyka Webmaster provides users with a range of webmaster related content, tools and freebies. The free css templates page is the most popular section with new templates being released every month. Recently we've added a new resource section with webmaster articles, tutorials and link directory.
Opened: April 2006
JustFreeTemplates opened back in late 2007. The website currently offers free website templates and wordpress themes however there are plans to expand the website to include both Joomla and Blogger templates too. 3rd Party designers can upload their templates and themes to the website and manage them from an online control panel.
Opened: October 2007
Resources & tools
BurstURL is a brand new, free to use, no-nonsense URL shortening and cloaking service. Visitors can input a URL and get a shorter burstURL. This service is designed to be used to send long URLs in emails, text messages, instant messaging and forums. However it can also be used to hide affiliate links or to make long URLS more memorable.
Opened: November 2008
Webquirk is a free web tools and resources website. The website provides free webmaster tools, webmaster tutorials, programming guides, widgets for your own site, web hosting reviews and articles.
Opened: February 2009
Forum voter is a new topsite execlusively for forums. Forum admins can sign up and put a small HTML code snippet on their forum to track pageviews and hits in with forums being ranked on the average pageviews per day. The site provides a free, quick and easy way for forum admins to promote their communities to a large audience.
Opened: April 2009
Online communities
sWG community opened in August 2008 however it started back in December 2006 under the name "Hidden Haven forums". The online forums have come on in leaps and bounds since with currently over 345,000 posts by nearly 1,500 users. The forums are used by all our websites plus they also house off-topic and general chat forums
Opened: August 2008
Premium content
spyka Web Design is our paid services branch of the network. Offering a number of services including web design, PHP and database coding, Image to XHTML and template customisation. Since mid 2007 the services have been closed however we plan to open them back up again by the end of 2008.
Opened: January 2007
Education
Revise Smart is our first project in the online education market. Revise Smart will provide free online 'quizzes' in order to help students revise for school and college exams. The quiz system will provide in depth analysis for answers and allow logged in users to keep track of their scores and progress over time.
Opened: Not yet (Planned Q1 2010)
Entertainment
Tellymix is a brand which covers a network of blogs covering British and WorldWide television. Blogs about reality TV shows featuring gossip, interviews, videos and exclusives. Rating information, movie reviews and more all soon to come.
Opened: May 2009
Sideline projects
Listed below are a number of other, smaller, websites we also own and update.
Old websites
These websites were previously maintained by spyka Web Group but have closed for a number of reasons.
FreeTemplates4all was a free templates and web resource site which later became spyka Webmaster.
Opened: June 2005 Closed: April 2006 (Rebranded as spyka webmaster)
Hidden Haven forums started in 2006 and is the predecessor to our current online community, sWG community. Hidden Haven closed during the summer of 2008 and was rebranded as sWG community. This rebrand included a totally new look for the board, a new software package and plenty new features.
Opened: December 2006 Closed: June 2008 (Rebranded as sWG community)
PromoteFree was a blog which posted weekly promotion tips for website owners, blog owners and forum owners. Plus articles on forum promotion, web design and site development. The website also had free resources and tools to help promoting your websites and products online for free.
Opened: December 2008 Closed: April 2009 (Merged with WebQuirk)