MassLandlords.net Soft Launch!
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After more than a year of planning at the Worcester Property Owners Association, we've finally soft-launched our brand new, state-wide landlord education website. We're so excited. (Soft-launch means that only a select few will be invited to preview the site at this stage. That's necessary while we work out the kinks.)
I remember when I first joined the Worcester Property Owners Association. Their website was something from the GeoCities era. The icon for the October meeting was an animated gif "witch-on-a-broomstick." It was great for its day. That was the WPOA's first site. How far the web has come.
Our second website was powered by Google Sites. Again, very nice for its time. And you can't beat free! Sadly, Google stopped supporting it and the tools never really kept pace. It was difficult to navigate the back-end and some things, like our meeting calendar, were always out of date. Very unfortunate. Still, it did its job. Here's an Internet archive screenshot from that upgrade:
Google Site for Worcester Property Owners Association, Sep 27, 2011
I would have loved to show you animated gif "witch-on-a-broomstick" site from 2008, but sadly, the Internet archive didn't take a picture of it.
Now we've saved up and invested in this new website. And we've broadened our mission to help landlords state-wide. This is a good time for the Worcester Property Owners Association. And thanks to this great website company we were lucky to meet, it got up and running within a short time from official contract start.
Wow! looks good!! I like we can go in and find the past blogs, switch up the calendar, get documents etc. Will there be a section to post our own rentals to alert our fellow members we have a vacancy? There’s more work to do for sure but a great start!!
I think the “vacancy alert” page would be a “version two” feature. But the Forum is up and running, so if you wanted you could also make a forum post. That requires a non-admin user name and password.
I like it so modern. As you said Doug the previous site were good for their time, we have to keep up with the times.
I have not found any bugs but I will keep looking.
George
Will those who post have the ability to edit their stsatement? Possibly an error or to add to whatever was posted needs to have additional verbiage.
Could our advertisers have a link to their webpage from our webpage?
Thanks for the positive feedback, George!
Right now a moderator has to approve a comment. Once approved, you can view the original article, find your comment, and click “edit”. Let me know if for any reason you can’t edit it (I think you can).
All the ads that appear on the site are linked back to the advertiser’s pages.