Rockford Public Schools, New Client - Custom
While we love and truly appreciate all of our partners, there's always something extra-special about working with districts and organizations local to our office. When talking to our non-local partners, common feedback often includes recognition for our extra time, care, and attention-to-detail while designing and integrating projects. Similarly goes for local partners, adding the benefit of familiar faces and in-person meetings.
We couldn't have been more excited for the opportunity to work with our neighbors at Rockford Public Schools on their custom design. Our first launch of the year, RPS's new website features engaging, without being distracting, interactive elements and a well-coordinated organizational effort between the district and building pages. A primary goal for the project was unifying RPS' buildings and program content, ensuring visitors can quickly and easily find the resources and information they came for. Our teams worked together closely during migration to ensure every piece of information was up-to-date, while being intentionally and strategically placed. RPS chose Foxbright for our expertise in ensuring ADA compliance, and our ability to find custom solutions to improve web production workflow and reduce reliance on redundant 3rd party tools.
Project Highlights
- Custom-crafted social board to surface district podcasts, promotional videos, and social posts.
- Stylized building newsletters to bring content in-house, while maintaining the publishing ease and attractive presentation of 3rd party newsletter platforms.
- Mobile-focused feature to elevate mobile experience while viewing website on smaller devices.
Special Project: Custom Mobile Design
One of RPS's goals for the project was crafting a website which behaves more like an app on mobile devices. Foxbright's designs have been mobile-friendly and responsive for many years, including the ability to customize mobile display. The challenge of adding app-like behavior for mobile display was welcomed and a harbinger of a trend we're seeing with organizations narrowing their communication methods to ensure efficiency and usability for their community. Foxbright's incoming mobile-focused feature allows app-like navigation on mobile devices and one-click methods for visitors to save app-like bookmark tiles with custom graphics to their devices.
Wyandotte Public Schools, New Client - Oak
ICYMI - Foxbright recently dropped a new template design offering - Oak! While new client, Wyandotte Public Schools, launched last year, we were still putting the final touches on the Oak design and wanted to wait to premier the WPS website and Oak together. In 2024, we had an idea brewing for a new design with a left-side main navigation. While brainstorming design ideas with the WPS team, they showed us a similar example. As history goes, we're glad they asked! This kickstarted our development of the Oak design. WPS goal was to simplify their site by pulling back from endless homepage elements, and encourage visitors to embrace and utilize the main menu instead of getting lost in the sauce. While I love some good sauce, we've all seen websites with 100 different buttons like, what should we be clicking here? After seeing WPS' tactful minimalist approach, be sure to peep the new Oak Design demo site to see all the options pre-built into the design. A testament to how Foxbright handles design, where two sites using the same design template can be completely unique! Who wants plug-and-play colors when you can have a custom-like experience for a template price?
Project Highlights
- First launch of the new Oak design, featuring a floating side main menu.
- Building list with school logos and quick contact information.
- Above-the-fold home and landing pages, skip the scroll and find what you need quickly.
Juniper Design
One of our most popular designs, Juniper, saw activity this season with a client redesign plus a new client to add to our growing medical services portfolio (Foxbright dabbles in other sectors too!)
Montague Area Public Schools, Redesign - Juniper
Longtime partner Montague Area Public Schools was still rocking their original design from the before days! Upon arrival of their new Superintendent, plans were set in motion for a modernized design, improving the site's ease of use for parents and the community.
The MAPS project point person, Steve Denniston, was instrumental in reviewing the original website, identifying content reorganization needs, and developing a new site map for the redesign. It's always refreshing to work within a vision! Foxbright worked closely with Denniston, who was also new to the district, to help guide cleanup efforts, and get him proficient in the Foxbright system.
Project Highlights
- Card-like effects to content elements providing visual depth.
- Accessible, while out of the way, Staff Resources quicklinks menu.
- Efficient use of space with overlapping elements and manageable focus banner.
" ... you have been great to work with it. I have learned so much the past few weeks and I'm grateful."
– Steve Denniston
NorthCare Network, New Client - Juniper
The primary purpose for NorthCare Network's website is to serve both patients and providers. They offer a lot of resources! Their original site was becoming difficult to update and navigate. NorthCare's goal was improving user experience to make their top items easier to find. To further this goal, Foxbright employed the Spotlight feature in lieu of a banner rotator to make the core services front and center while maintaining visual dynamics. These resources inherit to all inside pages, keeping them one-click away!
Reorganization of the website content and navigation allowed NorthCare to easily identify dated content and made ongoing maintenance a breeze. Foxbright's proprietary features provided a solution to display NorthCare's massive service network providers in a digestible format, while enabling quick access to provider contact information and websites.
Project Highlights
- Visual and interactive services spotlights, inheriting to all pages.
- Extensive use of the Building List feature to surface provider information in filter-able lists. Updating a provider will automatically update all pages where provider is listed.
- NorthCare is utilizing Foxbright's Content Maintenance service to ensure content is compliant and updated quickly and beautifully.
- (In Progress) NorthCare will utilize the Stories feature for a searchable provider directory.
Nutmeg Design (forever and ever)
Another huge nod to one of our more recent designs, Nutmeg! This design has only gotten more popular thanks to its flexibility and ample content sections and layouts.
Vestaburg Community School, New Client - Nutmeg
Vestaburg Community School new site came in hot, with one of their admins coming from another Foxbright partner district. She knew what she wanted and we got right to work. The design request was 'bold' so we worked their black and red into a deeper turnaround of the Nutmeg design. Their navigation was revitalized, merging various resource lists into a two-tier resources menu, spotlight buttons for building resources, interactive news and visual staff lists.
Project Highlights
- Dark and bold points of pride to highlight district identity.
- Creative merging of athletics and athletics hall of fame providing photo boards of recipients.
- Reorganization of key pages like academics for a unified presentation.
Cape May County Special Services, New Client - Nutmeg
Cape May County was mentioned in our previous roundup when launching another site for Cape May Tech. Now turning their attention to their Special Services programs, we're pleased to launch a new site for our first partners in New Jersey! Foxbright was able to save Cape May County money by trying something new: both sites use the same Nutmeg design and core CSS styling, but with strategic use of Foxbright's themes we created unique website branding from the same design for a fraction of the design cost of independent sites. With their experienced team handling content migration, launching two sites within months felt more like an Atlantic Ocean breeze to me.
Project Highlights
- Mega Menus to help visitors navigate the site
- Slick line accents for various heading styles
- Stylized Job Board for promoting employment opportunities
Mio AuSable Schools, Redesign - Nutmeg
Another longtime partner, Mio AuSable Schools, did well in their original design for almost a decade! Approaching 2025 and with the prospect of changing their primary colors, they decided it was time for a revamp. They knew who to call! Not only did we seamlessly integrate their new branding, Foxbright lent some graphic editing skills to transform the existing logo with the new colors.
Project Highlights
- New colors + new site facilitated a splashy rebranding for district.
- Interactive news and building list transformed HTML content into stylized elements.
- Building pages reorganized into one-page school home layouts while improving user experience.
Central Montcalm Public Schools, Redesign - Nutmeg
Central Montcalm Public Schools has always been a chill crew to work with and this project was no different! Ready to spice up their online presence, Nutmeg's various structural elements fit perfectly with CMPS' existing content. Leaning into 'Pure Michigan', a lush panorama background graphic meshed well with the CMPS green for a welcoming window into their district.
Project Highlights
- Visual image-based spotlights
- Unique use of Nutmeg's signature quicklink spotlights to provide navigation to buildings, then building navigation on each school's page.
- Interactive PBIS spotlights on building pages for bonus fun.
What's Next?
As nimble as a fox, our team never stops learning and growing our solutions to meet the ever-evolving demands of digital communication. In the coming months, keep an eye out for game-changing updates to our App and Mass Notifications tools, enhancements to our powerful Stories feature, and details about the mobile-focused functionality. Viva la Spring!
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