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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
tf-Media has recently released Personal Blog, which is a brand new blog platform that we are pleased to offer to you. Personal Blog is a robust, scalable, flexible cutting-edge blogging solution. Personal Blog goes way beyond what you can get with WordPress and other do-it-yourself blog platforms. Visit the Personal Blog vs. WordPress comparison page. The Personal Blog platform is completely turn key and requires no client set up or configuration. Please visit the Personal Blog Demo Site to have a look at this exciting new blog platform. There are several theme, layout and feature options available.
The Personal Blog platform basic features and functionality include:
- Multiple user blogs
- Event Calendar
- Message Board
- Image Gallery
- Newsletter
- Contact Form
- Search Box
- Unlimited email addresses
- User-friendly back-end that allows multiple authors
- Easily upload images, video and audio
- Easily update and edit content
- Help section
- Customizable blocks, widgets and plugins (sitemeter, Feedburner, Mybloglog, recent readers, chicklets, Alexa ranking and more)
- Create custom content types
- Display a wide variety of content information
- Turn key site, no setup required
- Built in statistics
- Several advertising tools to allow you to customize ad blocks and display options
- No HTML knowledge necessary
- Preview of external links to websites
- Google sitemaps and analytics
- Meta tags for all content
- RSS Feeds for all content
- You can easily feed content in from other sites
- Terms and conditions, legal and privacy policy
- Search engine friendly
- Robust, flexible and scalable
- Cutting edge software/platform
- Database driven
There are several other features that can be added to the Personal Blog platform such as audio and video, shopping cart, classified ads, links page, books section, resources, social networking, service directory, as well as anything else you can dream up...the sky is the limit!
The Personal Blog platform allows readers to find your information quickly and easily. You owe it to your readers to have the best available blog solution. tf-Media is offering this to you at an affordable price and unmatched quality and service.
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 |
Pet Publisher
tf-Media has recently released Pet Publisher, which is a brand new pet adoption website that we are pleased to offer to you. Pet Publisher is a robust, scalable, flexible cutting-edge website solution. Pet Publisher has similar functionality to Petfinder and other high-end pet sites. Please visit the Pet Publisher Demo Site to have a look at this exciting new platform. There are several theme, layout and feature options available.
Pet Publisher basic features and functionality include:
- Event Calendar
- Blog
- Message Board
- Image Gallery
- Newsletter
- Contact Form
- Search Box
- Unlimited email addresses
- Easy to navigate back-end that allows multiple authors
- Easily upload images, video and audio
- Easily update pets (like Petfinder)
- Easily update and edit content
- Adoptors can create their own testimonials
- Help section
- Customizable blocks, widgets and plugins (Petfinder widgets, sitemeter, Feedburner, Mybloglog, recent readers, chicklets, Alexa ranking and more)
- Preview of external links to websites
- Google sitemaps and analytics
- Meta tags for all content
- RSS Feeds for all content
- You can easily feed content in from other sites
- Terms and conditions, legal and privacy policy
- Search engine friendly
- Robust, flexible and scalable
- Cutting edge software/platform
- Database driven
There are several other features that can be added to Pet Publisher, such as pet training information, audio and video, shopping cart, classified ads, links page, job section (for volunteers), books section, resources, social networking, various directories such as directory of pet adoption shelters, breeder directory, service directory, vet directory, etc. as well as anything else you can dream up...the sky is the limit!
Pet Publisher allows adoptors to find your available pets quickly and easily. You owe it to your animals to have the best available solution. tf-Media is offering this to you at an affordable price and unmatched quality and service.
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.
Hosting
Once you decide to go with tf-Media, we will build you a site from scratch. We will also host the site for you. We have a particular hosting company that we work with that is extremely reliable. If you don't trust us, you can get your own hosting plan, etc. But we do only use one hosting provider. So it doesn't matter to us whether it's in your name or ours, but we do have certain requirements...and our hosting plan works beautifully for our needs.
We do not integrate these sites into your existing site. These are stand alone sites, that can link back and forth with your current sites, but they are a completely separate entity.
All of our hosting fees are included into the monthly price of the community.
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.
