Importance Of Community

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People today depend on the Internet for making informed decisions. This includes potential homeowners who start by researching online. Important among their considerations is understanding the rules of the homeowners ' association as well as getting a sense of the community. It is in the conveyance of getting a sense of community that an exceptionally designed HOA website can make a big impact. The Importance of Community Getting a sense of your community is essentially a first impression which is quickly formed at the subconscious level. A number of factors go into projecting a great first impression of your community, the foremost of which are the emotions that your site projects to its viewers. What emotions are these? In our socially fragmented and alienated society, everyone wants to belong to something greater than themselves. Therefore, your website should present your homeowners ' association as a community. It should project warmth, happiness, enjoyment, and active engagement. This is most …show more content…

While five to ten seconds don 't seem like much to ask your visitor to wait, most will leave in favor of faster websites. There is a good reason for this seeming impatience. Most users of the Internet visit more than a single web page. Some visit tens to hundreds of web pages and waiting five or ten seconds for each to load quickly adds up to a lot of wasted time. Website uptime. A website that isn 't online isn 't seen. Make sure that your website uptime is at least 99%. Even that number is a bit on the low side. The closer it is to 100% the better. What difference does a few tenths of one percent make? There are specific times of the week and day that people do their research and you don 't want those few tenths of one percent to occur during these critical times. Website security. A hacked website or a redirect to websites of "a questionable nature" not only conveys the worst possible first impression, it 's also damaging to your

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