Your site is more important now than ever before.
Engage your citizens and attract new ones. Foster economic development. Share the spirit of your community with the world. These are just some of the growing number of uses for your community's website. Your site also encourages civic pride, and is your chief venue for conveying news to your community through RSS and newsletters. It also lets the world know what makes your community special.
Luminopolis crafts useful, elegant websites for communities of all types and sizes. Whether you are a neighborhood of 500 or a metropolis of 5,000,000, we are here to put the web to work for your community. Your Luminopolis-powered website will balance:
Form
As the first impression many people have of your community, the "look and feel" of your site matters immensely. Your Luminopolis-powered site will be beautiful in every sense. It will be laid out based on harmonic principles, coupled with the best interface practices on the web. Your site will tell the story of your community, not through standard templates or one-size-fits-all design systems, but through individual attention to detail.
Function
Your Luminopolis-powered website serves as a toolkit for your administration and your community members. It guides users to the right place for information requests, and gives you tools to engage your community with easy updates and interactive forms. It is intuitive, so users find what they're looking for, it is well coded, so that users can access it from the device of their choice, and it adheres to standards for accessibility.
Flexibility
Over time your community changes – so should your site. The key to flexibility in both is a solid foundation. Your Luminopolis-powered site is built from the ground up with flexibility in mind. It is built in a modular way, with simple-to-master administrative tools, so that you can add to and adapt your site as you need to. This way, your site continues to reflect the current state of your community without having to reinvent the wheel every few years.
Beyond the Online Brochure.
With interactive Web 2.0 technologies, your community site can and should go beyond serving as an "online brochure." Your Luminopolis-powered web presence also saves your administration time and resources, and puts you more in touch with your community than ever before, through optional functions such as:
- Housing community forums – giving your citizens a venue to discuss matters, share ideas, and organize efforts through rich media discussions
- Polling and surveying members – giving you instant understanding of the opinion climate surrounding any issue at hand
- Housing public records – opening up transparency and saving you document management resources
- Allowing users to initiate requests – reducing service overhead
- Accepting tax, ticket, and license fee payments online – shortening payment turnaround and decreasing nonpayment rates
- Answering frequently asked questions – saving your staff phone and drop-in time
- Guiding community members – steering citizens to the right contacts within your administration and streamlining interactions
