October 20, 2021
Features & Enhancements for Release - Ellington
CMS Release: Ellington
Release Date: October 20, 2021
Foxbright is excited to be upgrading all clients to our new release: Ellington, over the next several weeks. One thing you may have noticed is the Foxbright website got a refresh itself! You can read more about our re-brand campaign if you missed it. Part of the Ellington release brings the colors and elements from our re-brand into our CMS control panel. We hope you love the new colors and styles as much as we do! But enough about us, we're also excited about the features we've enhanced based on client feedback and needs.
Ideas and Feature Request
You'll notice a new button next to the support/helpdesk button. This will open up a form for clients to easily send feature requests! Much of our product development is client-driven so we'd love to hear your thoughts and ideas for the Foxbright CMS!
New Features & Enhancements
- News Posts Enhancements - News Posts now support multiple images, video and a social media quick share function has been added.
- Improvements to Social Media Sharing - In addition to the News quick share, we've updated sharing tags and settings to better share images and media from pages to accompany the shared links and content on social media.
- Self Registration for Protected Areas - Protected Groups now support self registration by visitors. This enables visitors to create their own accounts and access protected information either automatically, or through an approval process finalized by website administrators.
- Find a File - Designed to aid in ADA cleanup, web administrators can now find any file uploaded anywhere to the CMS through the file URL.
- Duplicate Menu Items - Weeks or days in food menus can now be duplicated for easy menu creation.
- Advanced Filter - Filtering options in feature lists have been cleaned up and reorganized.
Updates
- Autoplay/Loop - Settings added to Video Block
- Main Menu Rooting - Base URL allows rooting of main menu as alternative to subsiting
- File Upload - Help text added for selecting folder
What Foxbright Clients Say
- Blissfield Community Schools
"We have used Foxbright for almost 9 years now and have had a great working relationship with them. Responses are always quick and courteous."
- Blissfield Community Schools
"We recently did a redesign of our website and we are so pleased with the new web interface. Their interface is easy to use and intuitive. Foxbright continues to keep up with the trends and over the past 9 years there have been many new features and functions."
- Byron Center Public Schools
"We are very happy with this organization. They are great to work with! Sharp group of professionals and always helpful."
- Grand Ledge Public Schools
"Foxbright's client service is second to none!"
- Grand Ledge Public Schools
"For many people, a school district's website often provides the first impression... and those are very powerful and influential. I can not imagine using a different website technology provider – I think Foxbright is tops in so many ways!"
- Kent ISD
“Foxbright is a technology company that knows how to communicate, rather than a communication company that dabbles in technology.”
- Muskegon Area ISD
"We been very satisfied with the quality and flexibility of Foxbright's CMS. We continue to enjoy a positive and creative partnership with Foxbright and look forward to implementing new features."
- Saline Schools
"When any issue comes up, the Foxbright support team is only an email or phone call away. They always respond very quickly to the issues which wasn't our experience with our last website vendor."
- Saline Schools
"The PD yesterday was awesome! The hybrid you did for us was great. It was short, quick and covered the areas we wanted to in a short time. Thank you for being flexible and rolling with our PD style yesterday.
Excited to be ADA compliant."
- Southfield Public Schools
"It has been a joy and a pleasure to work with Foxbright because they are such a responsive company."
- Vicksburg Community Schools
"Our Head of Technology and I both marveled at how thorough, seamless, simple, and cost-efficient the site transfer process was last Fall and at how easy it is to maintain and change the site to fit our needs. Thank you for all you do to help us look good!"
- Wayland Union Schools
"Our experience in working with Foxbright to create the new website was wonderful from start to finish. We finished the project under schedule and our parents, staff and community are happy with the new site."
