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Community Online

Community is a great way to keep people coming back to your Web site. Community consists of forums, chat rooms, calendars, and other tools. Even awards are a form of community. Communities help your readers return to your site again and again. These tools and tips will help you build forums and chat rooms and decide what you need for your community.
  1. Web Based Forum Software
  2. Chat Software
  3. Calendar Software
  4. Awards (87)
  5. Social Networking Tools (4)

Why Create an Online Community

How can your site benefit from community, and what do you need to have it?

Building Online Communities

Some of the basic steps to building an online community. Including links to the tools required.

Will Community Work for You?

Building web community used to be considered crucial to every website, but the reality is that it's not appropriate for everyone. Learn when community works and when it doesn't.

How to Be a Great Host - A List Apart

If you want to add a forum to your Web site you should take these tips to heart from A List Apart. One thing to remember "Most popular, active forums are associated with great websites—websites that include a great deal of unique content and are updated on a regular basis."

Post to the Web Design/HTML Forum

Learn how to post a message to the Web Design/HTML forum. It's not as hard as you might think.

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