Websites built for local government

A better municipal website for your community.

TownFront builds modern, easy-to-manage websites specifically for local government, helping residents find what they need while making life easier for municipal staff.

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  • Fast & mobile-first
  • Easy for residents to navigate
  • Easy for any staff member

Built for towns, villages, boroughs, and townships.

  • Built for smaller municipalities Towns, villages, boroughs, townships, and smaller cities.
  • Clerks and staff, not IT Whoever is at the desk can post the agenda.
  • Built around your municipality Not forced into a generic template, and yours to change.
  • Sensible, straightforward pricing Priced for the towns that need it, with no add-on fees for standard features.
The problem

Most municipal websites quietly become a burden.

Hard to update

Posting an agenda or updating office hours shouldn’t require a support ticket or a technical specialist. On many town websites, it does.

Hard for residents

When residents can’t find the form, meeting notice, or phone number they need, they call town hall, and staff answer the same questions all day.

Expensive to keep

Traditional municipal platforms can carry big price tags, long contracts, and slow change requests, even as the site drifts further out of date.

TownFront demo

See it from both sides.

What a resident sees, and what your clerk does. An illustrative municipal website showing the TownFront approach, built with invented content rather than a real municipality.

An illustration built with invented content, not a real municipality: a municipal website led by a large search box, quick actions for the tasks residents come for, a public notice, and current news and meeting listings, shown on a desktop screen and on a phone.
One promise

Easy to find. Easy to manage.

A municipal website that helps residents get where they need to go — without creating more work for your staff.

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Two audiences, one website

Good for residents. Easier for staff.

For residents

Find information quickly and get things done on any phone, at any hour.

  • Find agendas, minutes, and notices in seconds
  • Pay bills and submit forms online
  • Look up hours, contacts, and departments easily
  • A site that works beautifully on every phone

For clerks and staff

Update common content yourself. No technical support required.

  • Post an agenda in minutes
  • Publish news, notices and events yourself
  • Keep departments and documents organized
  • Fewer repeat phone calls to town hall
Capabilities

Everything a municipal website should do.

  • Post a packet the morning of the meeting, without waiting on a vendor
  • Give residents an archive they can search by board, year or topic
  • Keep minutes, resolutions and recordings together in one place
See how agendas and minutes work

  • Publish an announcement in a couple of minutes, from any device
  • Raise an emergency banner across the whole site when it matters
  • Meet legal notice requirements with a dated, permanent record
See how news and notices work

  • Board meetings, programs and community events on a single calendar
  • Residents add a meeting to their own calendar in one tap
  • Cancellations and reschedules update everywhere at once
See how the calendar works

  • A document library residents can search instead of guess at
  • Ordinances, budgets and reports organized by department and year
  • Replace a file without breaking the links residents saved
See how the document center works

  • Requests and applications completed online, without a trip to the counter
  • Clear confirmations, so residents stop calling to check on status
  • Submissions land with the right person instead of a shared inbox
See how forms and permits work

  • Every department, board and office with hours, people and numbers
  • Change a phone number once and it updates across the site
  • Boards and committees get real pages, not a buried PDF
See how department pages work

  • Fast results that forgive typos and unfamiliar department names
  • Documents and PDFs searched right alongside pages
  • The tasks residents ask for most surface first
See how search works

  • Built and tested to WCAG 2.1 Level AA, the standard the Department of Justice’s ADA Title II rule adopts, and checked against WCAG 2.2 Level AA criteria
  • Keyboard and screen reader users get the same site as everyone else
  • Your existing documents reviewed as part of the move
See our approach to accessibility

  • Designed for the phone first, because that is how most residents visit
  • Tap targets, type and forms sized for one hand
  • Quick to load on rural connections and older devices
See how mobile first works
Why TownFront

A different kind of municipal website partner.

Right-sized

Simpler, warmer and easier to understand than enterprise-heavy platforms built for far larger organizations.

Modern technology

Advances in web technology make it possible to deliver a better website faster, and at a substantially more reasonable cost.

A real partner

Responsive people who understand local government and stay with you long after launch.

Communities like yours

Every community deserves a front door this good.

A brick-lined small-town main street full of local shops
Main streets
A town common with a gazebo and flagpole
Village centers
A winding path through a leafy community park
Parks & public spaces
Getting started

Switching is simpler than you think.

1

Talk

A brief conversation about your current site, your goals, and what residents need most.

2

Build

We set up your TownFront site, move over your content, and organize it around real tasks.

3

Review

Your staff reviews everything, learns the simple editing tools, and gets comfortable.

4

Launch

Your new front door opens, and we stay available whenever you need us.

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Resources

Useful guidance for municipal websites.

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