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Community Central offers features that your residents will come back again and again to use and get their neighbors to use. With a Community Central website you’ll be twice as effective keeping residents informed, educated and involved. Our content modules range from the basic and essential to the interactive and sticky.
Some features only apply to certain community websites
Custom Look and Feel
Your website should reflect your brand. We utilize your colors, fonts, etc to make sure your community website is a reflection of your brand. Custom design and brand implementation is also available.
Savings Center
Low cost adverting for small businesses. Gives you the ability to upload coupons and sponsor a community website for a certain zip code(s)
Document Management System
Store electronic versions of the most up-to-date business materials: policies, procedures, contracts, and forms – making them immediately available to your residents. This feature can eliminate a significant percentage of your publishing and postal costs.
Local Content
Offer your residents detailed local information: post office hours, pool hours, watering days, and other customizable content.
Weather
Provide your residents the weather conditions for your area.
News
Provide the latest headlines affecting your community and the surrounding area.
Emergency Center
Provide your residents with local emergency contact information. Area maps of the Fire Department, Police Station, nearest hospitals, Animal Control and more.
Directories
Publish listings of local services: plumbers, electricians, churches, florists, grocers, gas stations, dry cleaners, tailors, restaurants and more.
Community Calendar
Provide an online community calendar with dates for local events: town hall meetings, farmer’s markets, craft sales, etc.
Message Boards
Provide your residents with a forum to have an online discussion with our message boards.
Classifieds
Host electronic classifieds: your residents can post items for sale and residents can search for items for sale in their neighborhood.
Preferred Vendor Boards
Allow your residents to refer and rate local vendors. Alternatively, your residents can reference the vendor board to get a referral on a qualified vendor.
Secure Member Profile
Allow your residents to register themselves and to manage their profile and optionally share their contact information with the community.
Reservation & Request Forms
Allow your residents to request services and make reservations for facilities online. Requests and reservations can be accompanies with auto replies with confirmations, office hours or trouble ticket information.
Email Newsletters
Get your information to residents, fast. Put your community newsletter online and/or send by email. Simplify production and significantly reduce publishing and postage.
School Connection
Connect with the schools in the community.
Digital Photo Album
Allow your residents to post photos online: pool parties, annual barbeques or holiday parties can be shared in digital photos online.
Groups/Activities
Post information about neighborhood groups and activities.
Polls
Finally, affordable and time saving data gathering. Poll and survey your residents online. Gather opinions and get consensus on the issues efficiently using your webite. Results can be tallied quickly and without error.
Address Book
Allow community members to search for other members phone numbers, email addresses and similar interests, etc
Administrator Tools
No HTML developer on staff? Your website will have tools for non-technical administrators. Anyone with basic computer skills will be able to publish content using our permission based, secure administrator tools.
Personal Bullentin Board
Post personal messages to residents/students.
Custom Development
Your community website may require custom features. Community Central offers custom web development services to produce new features and advanced applications.
Hosting
Your business is supporting your residents. You may not have a robust computer network with a spare server to host your community website. Through our hosting partnership with Hostmysite (www.hostmysite.com), Community Central can also host your website.
Hosting
When you don’t have an existing infrastructure, network or skilled staff you may choose to leave the hosting to us. We will reserve your own secure server at our partner’s facility.
Shared Hosting
When your needs do not require your own server, we will find affordable shared server space for your website.
Hosting services are offered in addition to our website packages. Contact your Community Central sales representative for a customized proposal to fit your unique hosting requirements.