Many years ago, at a meeting soon after the Trails Club got started, I said, "Hey! We should have a website." Silly me! Anyway, that's how I became the Club's webmaster. Armed with a copy of HTML for Dummies, I proceeded to create the first version of the Club's webpage.
It worked well for two decades, but it was showing its age. The design had remained pretty much unchanged, it didn't play nice with smartphones, and the back-end process was... let's say "old school." Everything lived on my personal computer and required manual FTP uploads. It was time for a change.
Welcome to the new Trails Club website!
We’ve moved to Google Sites, which means the site finally looks great on phones and tablets. It's also easier to maintain and more secure in the cloud. In addition, we've streamlined the content and added new features. We hope you'll like the changes.
Please take a look around! If you spot a bug or have a suggestion, drop us a line via the link below.
- John Ritz
P.S. A huge thank you to Jim Cozzens and HCAM for hosting the old website on HCAM's server for many years.
Fun fact 1: The hopkintontrailsclub.com domain was registered on February 23, 2006. 20 years later, almost to the day, this new website design went live.
Fun fact 2: The Internet Archive's Wayback Machine has a snapshot of the website from July 2007. It looks pretty much identical to how it looked before this update!