Hi, Cynosure--

Not sure what you mean by "for sample use only for viewing." Please feel free to contact me at flovece@habitatmag.com, and I'll try to help.

Our Co Op is in the process of building our own web site purely for the function of Newsletters; information of upcoming or ongoing projects in the building;community blog, etc.. Not needing to be elaborate Thank you for your response, it is appreciated.

You can use wordpress (http://www.wordpress.org), which is a free and open source software to building community based websites. i have used this to develop http://www.burnsstreet.com as an example.

Custom themes for wordpress that are relatively cheap and easy to modify can be found at http://www.themeforest.net/category/wordpress

Shout out to our intrepid Mr. Manager blogger, Mark Levine!

You might also want to see our free online article "Getting a Co-op Exclusive Web-Site Name: How to Fly the 'Coop'" at
http://habitatmag.com/publication_content/2009_june/web_exclusives/getting_a_co_op_exclusive_web_site_name_how_to_fly_the_coop

It includes links to our Building Web-Aps article, and additionally lists two print-magazine articles on the subject, available in the Habitat Archive.

Try ours:
http://www.thepinehurst.org

Send an e-mail from the site if you have questions! (Or post them here.)

www.naborsapts.org

We're a small coop (under 50 units) and I set a website up for us using Google Web and Google Groups. The main site has the building documents, policies, contact information and can't be changed by users. There's a linked site that is for discussions about building topics: want more storage cages, something to sell, how to recycle...etc. Only took about half a day to get the basic sites, both of them, set up. The Google platform is very intuitive. It's also easy to maintain and you can upload documents and photos. For a small building, I'd recommend it.