Finally, after 7 long months of code, test, debug, update, code, test, repeat, we're proud to present Finale CMS to you. We've looked around, did our research, and consulted with countless numbers of site owners and clients of ours, and we have what we believe is the most advanced, variable, and optimized system around. If you're interested in a new site with all the pros of a custom site but with the options generally reserved for big and inefficient CMSs, but non of the cons like long development times or inefficient code, then we might have just the solution you're looking for.
The Code
The code is every bit equivalent to our very best custom work for our bigger clients who run 450k+ uniques a day, and no matter what your needs, will let you squeeze every last little bit of power out of your server without using up unnecessary resources or giving your users a slow experience. Because we know how important a fast and low-lag site is, every last little bit of code has been optimized, tested, tweaked and tested again to make sure that every site that comes with Finale is as fast and efficient as possible.
The Front End
This is pretty much our "crown jewel" of our system. You can literally have ANY front end (design/template) that you want, there are a couple pre-built templates we setup that you're welcome to use, or you can bring us any layout you want, and we'll custom fit Finale to your design. We believe in options, and not limiting our clients to some preset standard, you can use any combination of display methods, arrange your data in any way you want, and you'll get exactly what you wanted, no ifs ands or buts. If you want to use a 1-5 rating (be it stars, hearts, horshoes, clovers or blue moons), or you want an up/down rating system, and maybe you want it to be able to go negative, or you just want it to stop at zero, we can do it. It's already in the system, you just have to tell us what you want, and we'll take care of the rest. ANY layout, ANY display options, we can do it.
The Media
We support just about every kind of media you can imagine. Whether you want to just show wmv videos, photos or flash, or rather you want to run flash videos with autoconversion (yes, we can do autoconversion of all your videos), Finale supports it. Right now we offer support for plugs, hosted videos, flash content (games/animations), photos and embedded content (youtube embed codes and such). We set it up to be able to handle just about everything you might want to do, and if you've got something else you want, let us know and we'll be happy to add it in!
The Backend (Admin Panel)
A fair portion of the last 7 months has gone into making the Admin panel as simple yet powerful as possible. We've put a classy interface packed with power to give you control over all the aspects of your site that you need. Much of the input we received was that webmasters want their sites to requires as little work as possible to update, so we've made updating your site as painless as possible. When uploading media and/or thumbnails, you can choose to upload one from your local harddrive, or input a URL which is automatically downloaded and added to the server, saving you lots of time and hassle having to downoad and reupload every piece of media you want to put up. In addition, we've got up a mass-upload tool that lets you log into ftp, upload a mass amount of content, and assign them all at once and move on. If you upload a video, but decide not to put up a thumb, Finale automatically generates several thumbnails from key points in the video, and lets you choose which one you want, saving you the time and hassle of creating your own and giving you a chance to get that perfect moment that defines your video. All media has a specific date with it, which enables being able to setup a lot of media in advance, that will automatically go live when the time comes, and also has a pending/live toggle in case you're not quite ready to use some media yet, but might want to in the future. Just to top it off, we've enabled positioning to let you put your daily media into an order of your choosing to make the most of your front page.
Ad Rotations
Ads might just be the most important part of your site, without them you make no money, unfortunately ad rotating systems are bulky and slow, fortunately we've come up with a way to rotate through any number of ads, recording impressions and clicks, with almost no overhead. You give us where you want your ad spots, and you can put as many different ads into those areas and everytime a page is viewed, a random ad is chosen from that section and displayed, it's a great way to try out a lot of ad programs and figure out which ones are making you money and which aren't. Ads can either be in an html code format that many advertisers give out, or you can upload a banner and add a link for it to go to. We've been implementing this feature in some of our own sites lately, and it's hard to believe we survived before this was in use.
Another ad tool we've implemented is designed with affiliate programs in mind. You can create a list of affiliate ads, and set each media separately to corresponding media so that your affiliates are happy and you can make the most revenue possible.
Hit Tracking
Every hit in and out, and every pageview is recorded by Finale. It's important to know who is sending you traffic, how much, and how productive each site is, so we record every unique hit to and from sites, and lay it out for you on a day-by-day breakdown, and on overall details. With Finale, you know where your user base is coming from, how many uniques you're getting, and you get it displayed in a nice and user friendly format, hopefully that'll be enough to help you boost up your traffic and make the most with your trades.
The Extras
It's hard to keep make a comprehensive list of all the little extras we've included, but just to name a few we've setup hardlinks, trading systems, and we spent a hell of a lot of time making the system as heavily search engine optimized as possible. Every page title, description, tags and url is coded to help you get the highest rank out of search engines, because lets face it, free traffic never hurts. We have standard urls that we like to use (<id#>_<media_title>.html), but it's all stored in easy to change variables in our system, so you could use any combination as long as it has at the very least, the id# in it, same goes for categories, and paging URLs. It's your site, and we feel you should be able to have it the way you want it.
Updates
Every copy of Finale CMS will receive 6 months free updates, and up to two free recompiles if you decide you want to change the features of your site.
The Bottom Line
To really put Finale into words is hard, so we'd like you to experience it for yourself. Just leave a post here, send me a PM or IM one of our staff on the AIM screenname FinaleCMS. We also have a forum we just setup that you're welcome to post on and ask some questions, it can be found at finalecms.com/support With Finale, we custom generate every site with all the options you want, and non of the ones you don't, so your code will come out with 100% of the features you wanted, and none of the options you decline will make an appearance in your code at all. You bring us a layout and we do the rest, or if you need a site designed, we have designers on hand who can work with you for a nominal fee to create the exact look you're going for. We deliver your site files, open source, fully custom to match your selected options. Free install is included with every purchase. The base code runs $400 for a copy, discounts are given on multiple copies, and any additional custom work is available and priced on a case-by-case basis.
Affiliates
We also offer an affiliate program, if you refer someone who buys from us, the first two of every month you'll receive $75, and $100 for every copy after that. Contact me if you're interested.
Feel free to post, PM, IM or check out our forums at finalecms.com/support if you're interested. Demos and current live sites using Finale available upon request. For the next week, 10% off will be given for GFY members.
The Code
The code is every bit equivalent to our very best custom work for our bigger clients who run 450k+ uniques a day, and no matter what your needs, will let you squeeze every last little bit of power out of your server without using up unnecessary resources or giving your users a slow experience. Because we know how important a fast and low-lag site is, every last little bit of code has been optimized, tested, tweaked and tested again to make sure that every site that comes with Finale is as fast and efficient as possible.
The Front End
This is pretty much our "crown jewel" of our system. You can literally have ANY front end (design/template) that you want, there are a couple pre-built templates we setup that you're welcome to use, or you can bring us any layout you want, and we'll custom fit Finale to your design. We believe in options, and not limiting our clients to some preset standard, you can use any combination of display methods, arrange your data in any way you want, and you'll get exactly what you wanted, no ifs ands or buts. If you want to use a 1-5 rating (be it stars, hearts, horshoes, clovers or blue moons), or you want an up/down rating system, and maybe you want it to be able to go negative, or you just want it to stop at zero, we can do it. It's already in the system, you just have to tell us what you want, and we'll take care of the rest. ANY layout, ANY display options, we can do it.
The Media
We support just about every kind of media you can imagine. Whether you want to just show wmv videos, photos or flash, or rather you want to run flash videos with autoconversion (yes, we can do autoconversion of all your videos), Finale supports it. Right now we offer support for plugs, hosted videos, flash content (games/animations), photos and embedded content (youtube embed codes and such). We set it up to be able to handle just about everything you might want to do, and if you've got something else you want, let us know and we'll be happy to add it in!
The Backend (Admin Panel)
A fair portion of the last 7 months has gone into making the Admin panel as simple yet powerful as possible. We've put a classy interface packed with power to give you control over all the aspects of your site that you need. Much of the input we received was that webmasters want their sites to requires as little work as possible to update, so we've made updating your site as painless as possible. When uploading media and/or thumbnails, you can choose to upload one from your local harddrive, or input a URL which is automatically downloaded and added to the server, saving you lots of time and hassle having to downoad and reupload every piece of media you want to put up. In addition, we've got up a mass-upload tool that lets you log into ftp, upload a mass amount of content, and assign them all at once and move on. If you upload a video, but decide not to put up a thumb, Finale automatically generates several thumbnails from key points in the video, and lets you choose which one you want, saving you the time and hassle of creating your own and giving you a chance to get that perfect moment that defines your video. All media has a specific date with it, which enables being able to setup a lot of media in advance, that will automatically go live when the time comes, and also has a pending/live toggle in case you're not quite ready to use some media yet, but might want to in the future. Just to top it off, we've enabled positioning to let you put your daily media into an order of your choosing to make the most of your front page.
Ad Rotations
Ads might just be the most important part of your site, without them you make no money, unfortunately ad rotating systems are bulky and slow, fortunately we've come up with a way to rotate through any number of ads, recording impressions and clicks, with almost no overhead. You give us where you want your ad spots, and you can put as many different ads into those areas and everytime a page is viewed, a random ad is chosen from that section and displayed, it's a great way to try out a lot of ad programs and figure out which ones are making you money and which aren't. Ads can either be in an html code format that many advertisers give out, or you can upload a banner and add a link for it to go to. We've been implementing this feature in some of our own sites lately, and it's hard to believe we survived before this was in use.
Another ad tool we've implemented is designed with affiliate programs in mind. You can create a list of affiliate ads, and set each media separately to corresponding media so that your affiliates are happy and you can make the most revenue possible.
Hit Tracking
Every hit in and out, and every pageview is recorded by Finale. It's important to know who is sending you traffic, how much, and how productive each site is, so we record every unique hit to and from sites, and lay it out for you on a day-by-day breakdown, and on overall details. With Finale, you know where your user base is coming from, how many uniques you're getting, and you get it displayed in a nice and user friendly format, hopefully that'll be enough to help you boost up your traffic and make the most with your trades.
The Extras
It's hard to keep make a comprehensive list of all the little extras we've included, but just to name a few we've setup hardlinks, trading systems, and we spent a hell of a lot of time making the system as heavily search engine optimized as possible. Every page title, description, tags and url is coded to help you get the highest rank out of search engines, because lets face it, free traffic never hurts. We have standard urls that we like to use (<id#>_<media_title>.html), but it's all stored in easy to change variables in our system, so you could use any combination as long as it has at the very least, the id# in it, same goes for categories, and paging URLs. It's your site, and we feel you should be able to have it the way you want it.
Updates
Every copy of Finale CMS will receive 6 months free updates, and up to two free recompiles if you decide you want to change the features of your site.
The Bottom Line
To really put Finale into words is hard, so we'd like you to experience it for yourself. Just leave a post here, send me a PM or IM one of our staff on the AIM screenname FinaleCMS. We also have a forum we just setup that you're welcome to post on and ask some questions, it can be found at finalecms.com/support With Finale, we custom generate every site with all the options you want, and non of the ones you don't, so your code will come out with 100% of the features you wanted, and none of the options you decline will make an appearance in your code at all. You bring us a layout and we do the rest, or if you need a site designed, we have designers on hand who can work with you for a nominal fee to create the exact look you're going for. We deliver your site files, open source, fully custom to match your selected options. Free install is included with every purchase. The base code runs $400 for a copy, discounts are given on multiple copies, and any additional custom work is available and priced on a case-by-case basis.
Affiliates
We also offer an affiliate program, if you refer someone who buys from us, the first two of every month you'll receive $75, and $100 for every copy after that. Contact me if you're interested.
Feel free to post, PM, IM or check out our forums at finalecms.com/support if you're interested. Demos and current live sites using Finale available upon request. For the next week, 10% off will be given for GFY members.
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