How can I help? I'm not a programmer or web developer.
The most important thing to make a website useful is content, useful content.
You don't have to know anything about building websites to help develop content. Here are some idea:
What do homeowners want to know? You are a homeowner, what do you want to know? How can the website be more helpful to you?
Example: Wouldn't it be great if we had a list of plumbers, electricians, handymen? Especially if we could have some system for voting them up and down.
Example: How about information about activities? What would it take for us to have activities like games or hikes or gallery visits for each street?
Example: With some work we could probably get vendors who would give a discount if we could get a number of homes who wanted, e.g. fireplace maintenance, dryer vent cleaning, window cleaning.
Example: New homeowners want to know about local schools, local shopping, where's the good mexican food, who does hair, auto mechanic. We need people to assemble this information.
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