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Welcome to tf-Media
We are committed to creating living, breathing community sites. Think of it as tight niched neighborhood community. Meet your neighbors...by focusing on community, you can connect people of a certain interest.
Some of the uses for a community would be for: Sports fans, local community, music, special needs, politics, TV, technology, religion, animal lovers, and so on. If there's a group of people interested in a certain thing...there's a need for a community online.
A simple blog or website is no longer enough. With Web 2.0 in full swing, you need to beat your competition to the punch. Be a community leader.
You'd be suprised how alive these sites become. Please browse through our portfolio, contact us and let's setup your Community.
Social Network Assistance Service
Do you have a social network that you need help getting off the ground? Are you afraid to hire an expensive SEO expert at inflated prices? Let tf-Media help you! Our Social Network Assistance service is an excellent way to get the traffic you need to make your social network a success. We have years of experience creating social networks and getting them to rank well on the search engines. This is what we do.
We have proven skills and experience to make your social network everything it can be, and more. New Communities Social Network Assistance service is provided at an affordable price. Our Social Network Assistance service starts at $50 an hour. We will provide you with a Community Manager who you can contact to get the help you need. You will not find any SEO experts who will touch a job at this price.
Contact us to find out more about our Social Network Assistance service. You'll be glad you did.
Personal Blog vs WordPress Comparison
The following is a comparison between the Personal Blog platform and WordPress. This compares the platforms "out of the box." Meaning requiring no extra programming or plugins, i.e., standard functionality.
| WordPress | Personal Blog | |
| Multiple Blogs | No | Yes |
| Event Calendar | No | Yes |
| Message Board | No | Yes |
| Image Gallery | No | Yes |
| Newsletter | No | Yes |
| Contact Form | No | Yes |
| Search Box | Yes | Yes |
| Unlimited Email Addresses | No | Yes |
| Multiple Authors | Yes | Yes |
| User Friendly Back-End | No | Yes |
| Upload images | Yes | Yes |
| Upload Audio | Yes | Yes |
| Upload Video | No | Yes |
| Help Section | No | Yes |
| Customer Support | No | Yes |
| Customizable blocks, widgets and plugins | Yes | Yes |
| Create custom content types | No | Yes |
| Display a wide variety of content information | No | Yes |
| Turn key site, no setup required | No | Yes |
| Built in statistics | No | Yes |
| Easily configure advertising | No | Yes |
| No HTML knowledge required | No | Yes |
| Preview external website links | No | Yes |
| Built in Google Sitemap and Analytics | No | Yes |
| Meta tags for all content | Yes | Yes |
| RSS Feeds for all content | No | Yes |
| Easily feed in content from other sites | No | Yes |
| Search engine friendly | No | Yes |
| Dedicated agent to help you and answer questions | No | Yes |
Our Platform
tf-Media offers a complete platform for delivering branded, customized, high-end social networks targeted at niche users. We bring a unique, hands-on approach to social networking, enabling customers to extend their business through social applications.
Industry Standard
Our system is built to provide all of the syndication, collaboration, and communication functionality users expect from a social network.
Features
tf-Media is continually expanding its platform rich feature set.
Modular
Customers can easily link their social application to existing sites and third-party web services.
Platform
tf-Media provides a platform that customers can extend and build on.
Tailored
tf-Media works with you to deliver a solution that perfectly addresses your broad range of business needs.
Social Networking
All of our sites are complete social networking, web 2.0 friendly. Each site comes standard with the following:
- Comments
- Buddy Lists
- Polls
- Voting on Content
- Private Messaging
- Send to Friend
- Invite friends and Colleagues
- Customized User Profiles
- Contact Forms
- Message Boards
- Blogs
Your site will be a living and breathing community. With some time, your site will be THE site of your particular niche.
Why can't I do this myself?
You can do it yourself.
Feel free to go and learn a content management system yourself. There are plenty of open source options out there. We highly recommend Drupal, that is the platform tf-Media uses for all of our sites. You can even use us as consultants if you wish. Our goal is to help everyone create the community neighborhood they need.
Yeah, we're probably losing business by telling you that, but we feel that being honest and letting you know there is free stuff out there is our duty. It does take some time to learn how to setup and you do need some skills, but it's not rocket science. If you don't want to spend the time learning or trying to do it yourself, please use our service.
Our sites are turn-key...no learning curve at all.
What does the monthly fee cover?
The reason we charge a monthly fee, is because your site is alive. We could charge a one time fee, build your site and let you fend for yourself. But you'd have a tough time being successful. We ensure that your site is the best it can be.
We provide you with a dedicated community manager who will hold your hand along the way to answer all of your questions, whether they are technical or not. We also teach you everything you need to know to make your community a success.
We optimize your site for your particular niche. We submit your site to all of the major search engines as well as every cutting-edge blog directory out there. We also use aggressive linking techniques which will help your site rank well on the search engines.
We are experts at marketing websites. If you wish, we will help buy some traffic to your site. We are also experts at using advertising on sites. So with our help, you should easily be able to exceed the $100 monthly fee in advertising.
We also manage services for you such as, Google analytics, Google sitemaps, snap, mybloglog, technorati, digg, sitemeter, as well as several other cutting edge social networking techniques.
We provide you with hosting, technical support, upgrades, as well as knowledge of the latest in web technology. We keep our finger on the pulse of the web, so you don't have to.
What do you use to build my site?
tf-Media uses a content management system called Drupal. Drupal is an open source system. It is free to the public.
We find that Drupal fits our needs perfectly as well as providing beautiful templates and features that provide us the functionality to make our sites a success.
Feel free to go to Drupal's website to learn more about it. Heck, you may even be able to build the site yourself.
Give it a try!
Will my site be unique?
Our community sites are templated sites with some customizations. But the great thing about that is, they are extremely usable, clean, and tested sites. Drupal is a very stable platform.
The look and feel will be unique because of the custom features and the content of your site.
So if you're looking for something really flashy and unique, we may not be for you. But if you want something that will be very user friendly and a value to your community...we may be able to help you.
Please take a look at some of the sites we built in our portfolio, you can also view available themes at Drupal.org. You'll find quite a few themes, all of them very professional and functional.
What's a blog?
A blog is a website. An online journal in reverse chronological order.
Blogs are extremely loved by the search engines. The reason is, blogs are constantly changing. The search engines love fresh, original and updated content.
At tf-Media all of our community sites involve blogging in one way or another. You've probably heard your teenager talk about a blog, now you can have one and you can give one to anyone else you wish...for free.
Our platform allows you to get visitors to sign up and get their own blog. Everyone can share their ideas, pictures, video and audio on their blog.
It's an extremely exciting thing!
