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Dear Readers,
I am pleased to announce
a major upgrade to the Davis-Stirling website. Since it was first launched in
January 2004, content on the website has grown to over 1,200 pages of
information with thousands of internal links between forms, statutes, and case
law. Traffic has also grown dramatically with 2 million hits per month on the site.
New Internal
Structure. To accommodate the increasing usage, last year we committed
$100,000 to an overhaul of the internal structure of the website. A team of
developers upgraded our static HTML website to a state of the art ASP.NET 3.5 content management system, which dramatically increases the
capabilities of Davis-Stirling.com.
 More Power, More Speed.
In addition to changing the
programming language, powerful
caching algorithms were added that deliver pages at lightning fast speeds.
For more powerwe moved our website to Mosso, a website hosting service that
provides advanced technology for high-traffic,
high-performance websites.
Instead of one server, we now have access to the computational power of hundreds of servers,
and our
bandwidth was expanded to 500 GB--the equivalent of
expanding a two-lane dirt road to a ten-lane highway. This will allow the
website to run smoothly during peak traffic hours.
New Features. We
gave the website a sleeker design, while keeping the same general look and feel of the original website to make it easy for you to
quickly find the information you need. Some of the new features include:
- An advanced search
feature that allows you to search the "Main Index." The search feature is
now on the tab bar to give you ready access to it. In addition,
we added a drop down menu that lets you separately search statutes and case
law.
- A "browsing history"
was added under the tab bar that allows you to track the pages you viewed, so you can
easily return to them.
- More cases affecting
community associations have been added to the site and re-indexed for
ease of location.
- An e-mail sign-up
has been added to the Job Market to speed contact between those
posting jobs and those searching for them. It notifies participants whenever
a new job is posted.
- The website now
opens directly into the Main Index to speed your search for topics and sub-menus
were restructured to make them easier to read.
- A "Dispute
Resolution" section has been added to make it easier to find ADR and IDR
requirements under the Davis-Stirling Act, and to obtain qualified mediators
who know and understand the problems faced by homeowners associations.
Fine Tuning. I
want to thank
everyone for your kudos, ideas for improvements, and editing suggestions. I encourage your continued feedback,
especially about any broken or misdirected links you might find, so we can fine
tune the website.
More Features Pending. We have more features on the way and will announce
them as they come online. In the meantime, please visit our new website and give
us your feedback.
Very truly yours,
Adrian Adams, Esq.
Adams Kessler PLC
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