Features

tf-Media builds every community site custom for each customers needs. So for instance your site may not need the same features as the next site.

Typically, these are the major features we offer:

Blog
Each person that signs up, gets their own blog. Everyone. Blogs are a great way to allow people to share their ideas and opinions. Everyone should have their own blog, and they do thanks to tf-Media.

Forums
Discussion boards and forums are great for creating dialog among your community members. People can create their own threads and join in on the conversation.

Event Calendar
The event calendar is a great way to show your readers what is happening, when and where. You can easily ad items to the event calendar. You can also display lists of upcoming events in the sidebar.

Comments
Our communities allow the public to comment without signing up. This allows everyone to have a say in the conversation. This really creates a sense of community, everyone has a voice.

Photos, Audio and Video
tf-Media makes it easy for members to share photos, podcasts and videos. The general public can also easily view any media that members of the community share.

Sophisticated, Easy to Use Back-End
tf-Media has a very intuitive back end which makes creating, updating and deleting content a breeze. Our platform allows multiple authors, and restricts users to see only what they have access to. There is also a very informative help section.

Polls
Members can create polls and get the general publics' opinion. Everyone can cast their vote, and you can tally the results and share them with everyone.

Newsletters
Our sites come standard with a newsletter module. Which allow your readers to sign up to receive the latest news emailed to them. Newsletters are a great way to keep in touch with your readers.

User Profiles
Each member can create a unique profile for themself. They can upload an image, share their website, tell about themselves as well as many other options. The general public can see all members of the community at any time. We make it easy for the community to meet it's neighbors.

Recent News
All of our sites allow members to easily share syndicated news. We are capable of feeding in news via RSS into your site, so you can have up-to-the-minute news on any subject at your fingertips.

Image Gallery
An image gallery is a great way to show off all of your images on the site. There is also a feature for all images which will display them in a larger box when clicked. New Communities takes pride in our image expertise and we are very flexible with our image and image gallery options.

Email Contact Forms
Our sites come complete with email contact forms. These allow people to contact you via email without having to publish your email live on the web. This will help so people can easily contact you, without you having to receive endless spam. We can also provide you with a custom email address as well.

Classifieds
We can create a classifieds ad section on your site. People can buy and sell items in your community.

RSS Feeds
Your site comes completely RSS friendly. So others can easily subscribe to your information and get notified when your site is updated.

Spam Fighting
All of our sites feature the Akismet spam module and Captcha word verification. These will fight all comment spam on your site. Allowing you to decide what gets published to the site and what gets blocked.

Tagging
All of our community sites allow you to customize your meta tags as well as custom tag clouds and meta tag keyword and description for each item.

User Points
All of our community sites use a user point system. Users receive different amount of points for different tasks. It's a great way to entice people to use the site more frequently.

Archives
Our sites allow you to organize all of your information by date and to display links on the blog to archived information.

Online Support
Even though our sites are extremely user friendly, each site comes standard with links to instructions on how to use the site. As well as links to our support team.

Widget Support
tf-Media supports third party widgets. If you can find the code, we can get it up on your site. Widgets are a way to add extra functionality quickly and easily to your site.

Search
All community sites have extremely powerful search options, which make finding data on your community site easy for everyone.

Send to Friend
Ability to send any type of content that you choose to any email address.

Birthdays
All users have the option to enter their birthday. This information can be displayed on their profile page. The site will automatically send them a birthday message on their birthday.

Buddy Lists
All users have the ability to setup buddy lists. Each profile they view, they are given the option to add to their buddy list.

Captcha Word Verification
Each site comes standard with Captcha Word Verification. This is a word that must be typed in before submitting comments, etc. Captcha ensures that is a human entering the information rather than a computer.

Comment Notification
Our sites will notify you when you a reader posts a comment. You are given options to approve or dissaprove right in the email.

Statistics
You can easily see how many visitors you receive as well as what keywords they are using to find your site as well as several other items. All sites have a built-in statistics module. We also use Google Analytics for very detailed information on your visitors.

External Site Preview
tf-Media sites come standard with external site preview. When you hover over a link to an external site, a window pops up showing you a preview of that website.

Invite Friends and Collegaues
You can easily send emails to friends and collegaus inviting them to become a member of the site. Users earn points for bringing in new members.

Voting on Articles
Users may vote on articles. You can display the most popular articles at the top. Only members are allowed to vote. This places a star rating under each item.

Private Messaging
Users can send private messages to other members of the site.

Search Engine Friendly
Not only are our sites search engine friendly, they come standard with a Google sitemap. Which notifies Google what is on your site as well notifies them every time your site is updated.

Social Bookmarking Links
You can display technoratti, digg, furl, reddit, google, yahoo, etc. social bookmark links below every post.

Legal
You can create Terms and Conditions, Privacy Policy, legal terms and copyright information for your site. Protect yourself and your users, and let your visitors know that your site is secure.

Customizations
All of our sites are easily customizable. Each site has sidebars that can be changed on the fly, including things like: who's online, who's new, recent readers, latest images, recent comments, similar entries, as well as easily customizable blocks to include advertising, chicklets, branding images, logos, or any other code you want to display.