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!

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.

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!

Once your site is up for a while, you can ad some advertising. Google Adsense, Yahoo Publisher Network, Auction Ads, Amazon, and Text Link Ads are great for getting paid per click.

We will also help you find some affiliate advertising programs in your niche to help you earn money from your site. You can also have donation buttons if you wish.

Once you get some traffic, you can sell advertising space to business and sites in your niche. With our help, and some time you should easily be able to recoup your $100 monthly fee in advertising.

We'll make sure they do.

By default our software Drupal is very search engine friendly. Pair that with fresh, original content and the buzzing of the community. Your site will do well on the search engines.

All of our sites include meta tags and Technorati tags for all content. We also install a sitemap module which allows the search engines to crawl your site more easily. We also submit your site to hundreds of search engines and blog directories. Typically, this happens after you have at least 3 months worth of content and activity on your site.

We like to trade links with other high ranking niche sites. We also place your link on other blogs, forums and sites to help generate traffic. You can also do some offline things to help your site, such as press release, launch party, include URL on business cards, give-aways, etc.

Also, by joining tf-Media you get the advantage of link power from all of our client sites. Each community site becomes part of our network of linked sites.

There is always the option of buying traffic to your site. If you wish to spend the money tf-Media will manage an Adwords campaign for you to help drive traffic to your site. With Adwords you pay per visitor. This works particularly well with affiliate advertising programs, but it does cost money.

John Blogger had a site. It was a WordPress blog on the subject of hunting. It was doing ok, but John was not posting like he should. John came to tf-Media, we created a community for John's hunting site. Suddenly John tells his hunting buddies and they all sign up. They all start discussing things in the forums, and blogging and posting hunting photos, uploading videos and really buzzing around.

Suddenly, John didn't have to write so much. John included some local outdoors news feeds. After a while, more people from the general public were posting comments. And better yet, other people were signing up and using the site.

Six months later, John had a living and breathing site that had legs. He didn't have to do much at all, even though he continued to blog. He was making money on his Adsense ads, his traffic had doubled and all the while, he continued to push the site. Eventually, John was able to sell some ad space to a few resorts in his area. He also made a few bucks with Adsense and some affiliate programs. Enough to cover his $100 a month.

Doesn't seem like a huge success, but it is. John is providing a service to all of his hunting buddies and other people on the web. By providing a community where everyone can join in, John has positioned himself as the Hunting Expert and has gotten several freebies due to his site. People have asked him to review their resorts. Discounts abound.

The site is paying for itself, he's looked up to in his niche, and he's getting free stuff. To me, that is great success!!

RSS stands for Really Simple Syndication. Basically, it’s just a feed of information that people can subscribe to. By default, tf-Media creates an RSS feed for every post and every comment on your site. Meaning if someone puts a comment on your blog, they can add the feed to their feed reader and they’ll be notified on any activity on their comment.

The great thing about RSS feeds, is that now days email clients are including feed readers, so you can add your favorite RSS feed to your email client and your feeds come in just like email.

Basically, a feed just keeps you notified when a site changes, without you actually having to go to that site. If your a smart blogger, you don’t include the full article in your RSS feeds, you do just a title and a teaser. That way, interested readers have to go to your site to read the full article.

Some advertising programs are now allowing advertising within an RSS feed.

Also the other great advantage to a feed, is you can import stuff right into your site via an RSS Feed. tf-Media does that with all of our sites, feed the latest headlines right onto the site, free content.

RSS feeds are great! You’re definitely going to be seeing a lot of exciting stuff happening with RSS in the future.

Each user on the site has a different set of permissions, or roles. For instance people just surfing by are called anonomous users. They can read articles, view all content, images, audio and video, and they can leave comments on the site. But that's it.

The role of authenticated user, is someone who has actually gone ahead and signed up. And when you sign up, you are sent a confirmation email. This ensures that people are using real email addresses and combats automated spam.

When people are authenticated they may have more access than anonomous users. You can control what you services and features you want them to see. We'll help you with this.

Then there is the super user, this is only for high tech users. This is to make changes to the site. Super user can only be assigned by the admin of the site.

The final user role we offer is admin. Admin is the god-account. This account has control over everything and hands out everything. Typically, only tf-Media employees have access to the admin account. This ensures that changes are only made by qualified individuals.

We can also create custom user roles as necessary.

Anyone can leave comments on tf-Media sites.

But the catch is, comments are not displayed on the site until they are moderated. They are held in an approval queue until the owner of the site or a super user approves them. Once they are approved they appear on the site.

Comments are also scanned by our spam modules. This looks for any tell-tale signs of spam. This is a great feature and will save you time by eliminating the obvious spam comments. So, in the end, the only comments you need to approve are real comments typed by a human.

All of the content on the site is yours. The URL is yours. The site is yours.

At the end of the contract, if you wish to go your own way...you are welcome to do so. Everything will go with you.

However, it is your responsibility to move all content and the site to it's new location. We can assist you with that, however, we do charge a fee for moving sites.