District communications staff previewed the Weber School District’s redesigned website, which launched the prior Friday, and outlined features intended to make information easier for families and staff to find.

Dr. Jennifer Boyer Thurgood walked the board through the site’s main changes: an updated color scheme and a temporary logo adjustment, a more traditional top‑menu structure, refreshed individual school landing pages that include required state and federal information, and a prioritized blue quick‑links bar with high‑use items such as lunch menus, PowerSchool and events. She said the redesign reduces the previous site’s “pop‑out” structure in favor of a cleaner, more consistent layout.

Boyer Thurgood highlighted a “live feed” component that integrates district Instagram and Facebook posts into the site and allows site managers to add campus content to the district feed with one click. She also demonstrated an integrated Spanish translation tool that uses Google Translate to convert menus, buttons and headers with a single click; staff said the tool supports hundreds of languages.

Rollout plans: the communications team has trained three content creators and three departments on the new platform and expects to transition three full school sites by the end of December and the remainder by the end of the school year, using vendor assistance to transfer content.

Discussion only: board members praised the site’s user experience and asked about where snow alerts and translation controls will appear; Boyer Thurgood said snow/alert information will appear both in the banner and live feed and that Spanish translation is one click away. No formal action was taken.