Fifty bilingual pages and an encrypted back office.

The build

Scope

Rebuild of a Coos Bay property manager off WordPress: 50 bilingual pages, English and Spanish. Rentals live from AppFolio with town, bedroom and rent filters; 16 subsidized communities in 14 towns, each with its own page; their applications online, encrypted in the applicant’s browser and opened only in a back office the staff signs in to; all eight of the old forms rebuilt; and all 80 old addresses redirected to their new pages. Built in 13 business days.

Result

Live on its own domain since 2026-10-27, on the client’s own Cloudflare account. Mozilla Observatory A+ (the old site measured D-), and Lighthouse and the security grade measured live on the wall.

Stack

Astro · Cloudflare Pages · Pages Functions · AppFolio listings · applications encrypted in the browser · English and Spanish

The front door is a question

The homepage opens with the question the front desk asks: How can we help? Right under it the site splits three ways. Looking for a home, already a tenant, or own a property, each with its own short list of the things that person came to do, so a tenant paying rent never has to wade through owner services to find the button.

Below that, a map of Oregon carries a pin for every town where Grand manages a community, from Tillamook to Brookings and out to Prineville, with the office marked on Park Avenue. Tap a town and its communities come up.

Rentals straight from AppFolio

Grand runs its business in AppFolio, and that did not change. The homes for rent on the site come live from AppFolio, with filters for town, bedrooms and rent, so a home the office lists in AppFolio is on the website within minutes. If AppFolio is slow, the page still shows the last homes it had instead of an empty box.

Paying rent and applying for a market-rate home still happen in AppFolio, one tap away, so tenants keep the logins they already have.

An encrypted back office

AppFolio takes one rental application. Grand's subsidized communities run under HUD, Rural Development, HOME and tax-credit programs, and each program needs its own application with its own notices. On the old site those were PDFs to print, fill in by hand and carry to the office.

Now every community that takes applications has its own online, matched to the version of the paper form that community uses. An application is encrypted in the applicant's own browser before it leaves the phone or computer it was typed on, and it opens only in Grand's back office, a workspace the staff signs in to. When the office has filed its record, the stored copy is deleted 30 days later.

The paper forms are still there for anyone who would rather use them.

Bilingual, and nothing lost in the move

Every page has a Spanish version, one tap from the top of the page, and so does every form, error message and confirmation email, so a family applying in Spanish never lands on an English form halfway through.

The move off WordPress kept everything the old site had. All eight of its forms were rebuilt, the accessibility statement, Equal Housing Opportunity notice and TTY 711 line are on every page that needs them, and all 80 addresses the old site published lead to the right new page. Each one was checked live on launch day. The security grade and the performance numbers are measured live on the wall, not quoted from a screenshot.