I remember when the City of St. Paul first started a web site. It was indeed cutting edge. They have made some changes over the years. The site is a great source for city meeting minutes and agendas and for keeping up-to-date on current issues and they even have the city complaint department online now.
The site is missing a lot of information too. There isn't any useful information about permit parking, or the secret parking meter card and there are other things missing from the site that city residents need to know. The site is also hard to navigate and search and there are a lot of PDF's that have to be opened.
I bring this up becasue I get calls because of this blog and people think I know city stuff. I don't but my blog is searchable and it does have information on it that is missing from the city web site. People ask questions and I write a post about it. Maybe the city should do something like that, or they could ask a Realtor what kind of information should be on the site. We get asked questions about the city from buyers and sellers all the time.
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I’ve always had these same thoughts about the San Diego government websites. It further complicates matters when relevant information is scattered between city governments sites, county sites, multiple school district sites, law enforcement sites, etc… Maybe it’s the Realtor’s job to pull it all together?
If you’re not trained to sell houses, then might as well ask a professional realtor to guide you so that you will not be on the losing end.