Signing up and Messaging

Always check the spam folders for any email account you use with Workpost. If you are having a problem signing up and do no receive a confirmation message or messages from other Workposters, it's likely that a Spam filter caught the message. While we have taken steps to properly identify the mail and messages originating from this site (so that they will not be marked as spam), they still occasionally end up in spam folders. Spam and spam filters are a huge problem these days, so much so that we will probably add an internal messaging system to future versions of Workpost.

Site Layout

In general, the Workpost site is designed to give users multiple ways to do the same thing. From searching to posting, we use a "locations" model where hitting search buttons will give different results depending on your location. For example, if you search from "USA" you get the first page of posts listed in the order they were posted from every state included in the system.

Browsing

You may determine your search location at any time by referring to the links in the upper right hand corner of the site or the title area above the central "content" area of the site (that most frequently changes).

Hit the search button to get results for your location. For example, if the title says "Welcome to Workpost Massachusetts" and "Massachusetts / USA" is displayed in the upper right corner and you hit search, you will bring up results from all areas of the state of Massachusetts. Currently, it is possible to search all "USA" locations at once though you may not find the results to be particularly useful.

Searching

At every point where users can browse, they can also search. As with browsing, you can select multiple locations to search at the same time using the Shift and Ctrl keys.

Posting Work

You can post to up 5 different locations simultaneously by selecting locations with either your Shift (to select groups) and Ctrl keys (to select individual locations not next to each other). We included this feature because we think it is useful and because many classified systems do not offer the ability to do this. It does present some technical challenges on the back-end of the site but hopefully as the site grows we will be able to keep (and possibly expand) this ability.

User Accounts

You can change just about any bit of information included in your user account. It drives us nuts when we can't change basic things like the email address associated with online accounts so we made sure it was possible to do that with Workpost. The only bit of information that is difficult to change and that user accounts cannot change is the Username associated with an account. We need at least one bit of information that stays consistent.