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Foundation was designed from the ground up to create beautiful, functional, feature-rich sites for alt-weeklies. The platform includes hundreds of features for readers, editors, and publishers, all focused on leveraging an alt-weekly's strengths, providing useful and fun tools for readers, and making your website profitable.

  • All-in-one print and online solution
  • Flexible, extendible templating system
  • Hundreds of included components - create custom components or layouts anytime
  • Robust multi-server database cluster, web server cluster, and caching server

For Readers

LOGIN/REGISTRATION

  • Site-wide user login
  • Restaurant menus and coupons
  • User-picked favorites
  • Staff picks
  • Save this article, location, event, etc.
  • Commenting on everything
  • User profile pages
  • User images, avatars
  • User reviews
  • User-defined custom lists (best punk venues, cheap eats, etc)
  • Email friend

CONTENT

  • Searchable archives of everything
  • Slideshows
  • Polls with graphing and commenting
  • Related locations, events, stories, authors, etc.
  • Print friendly
  • Top viewed stories, events, locations, blogs, and more
  • Most emailed
  • Most commented on
  • People who like this also like that
  • More by this author
  • Author archives
  • More in this section
  • User preferences
  • Event reminders service (sms text or email)
  • Add events to iCal
  • Video
  • Audio
  • Maps
  • Issue cover archive

EVENTS

  • Movie tickets
  • All events at this location (past and present)
  • Music Listings
  • Calendar listings
  • Restaurant guide
  • Location guides
  • Archive of all events

MOBILE

  • Discoverable mobile interface

For Publishers

MANAGE YOUR CONTENT AND USER CONTENT

  • Member email list export
  • Review draft/scheduled content
  • Review recent comments
  • Review user-reported comment violations, and pull offending comments.
  • Comment filtering by IP and keyword
  • Unique style for staff comments
  • Configurable/expandable social bookmarks
  • Configurable automated daily and weekly newsletter system
  • Interstitial ad support (embed ads within stories or after every 5 blog posts, etc).
  • Auto thumbnails and cropping
  • Image enlargements
  • Edit a story directly from the website (one click edit, so to speak)
  • Automated tag based matching of stories on the same topic in other alt weeklies
  • Spilt stories over multiple pages
  • Captcha
  • Tags, Tags, Tags
  • Configurable RSS
  • Fully integrated blog
  • Schedule story or blog postings for future release
  • Best Ofs

CALENDAR

  • Repeating events a snap to schedule
  • Movie Times importing with CinemaSource and TMS support

PRINT INTEGRATION

  • Print exports of events flow directly into InDesign (or QuarkXPress) fully styled
  • Export location directories for print
  • Proofing tools
  • Digital Edition integration

SEO

  • Automatic SEO-friendly URL generation
  • Site Maps
  • Google News Maps

DEVELOPMENT

  • Create/share your own components
  • Configurable expandable development system
  • Ability to add 3rd-party widgets wherever/whenever you want
  • Library of hundreds of components/widgets
  • All-in-one dynamic administrative interface
  • Living structure that can be changed at any time

INFRASTRUCTURE

  • Robust multi-server database cluster, web server cluster, and caching
  • Time-based caching and on-demand page cache busting

Optional Add-On Modules

Questionland - Community Q&A

Cocktail Compass - Happy Hour Finder app for iPhone

Ticketing - Sell event tickets

Perks - Gift-certificate, ad exchange program

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Hosting

  • Redundant web servers
  • Redundant caching servers
  • Redundant database cluster
  • Gigabit connectivity
  • Gyrobase advanced queueing infrastructure
  • 2N+1 cooling
  • Site-wide UPS and generator with fuel supply arrangement
  • 24x7 monitoring and incident response
  • Dedicated, enclosed, secured cabinets
  • Site security with biometric access control, alarms, police response, and DVR