The Bison Bridge Behavioral Insights site is a custom WordPress build made in Bricks Builder, designed for behavioral support and IEP advocacy in Kansas. Below I’m outlining roughly what it takes to make a site like this from start to finish — including plugins, structure, and the general workflow I’d follow. (It’s not perfect grammar, but it’s real.)
To get started, you’d want WordPress running on a good host like SiteGround or Closte — something with decent staging and SSL built in. I’d install Bricks Builder, setup my header and footer templates, and bring in a styling system like Core Framework or Automatic.CSS to keep everything aligned. A few core plugins are needed:
That’s the backbone. Once those are ready, I’d move into the design layout.
Main colors are black, gold, and white — looks clean but strong. Fonts like Montserrat for headlines and maybe Open Sans for paragraph text. Header has the logo left, menu center, and a gold “Request Details” button on the right. Each main page (Parents, Schools, Virtual, Blog, Resources) has it’s own hero banner, black header, and light content area.
Hero section on homepage: big bison photo background, text overlay that says “Empowering Families Through IEP Advocacy & Behavioral Support”, and 2 buttons for Services + About.
Each CPT is setup with ACF groups and assigned templates inside Bricks (loop builder for grids, single templates for posts). The backend ends up pretty clean once Admin Columns Pro sorts things right.
Fluent Forms handles everything. There’s a 2-step Get Started Form — Step 1 for basic contact info, Step 2 for service type or message. Then a Payment Form (Name, Email, Phone, Amount) that ties to Stripe or PayPal.
Emails route through Brevo with confirmations, and sometimes I add hidden tags for CRM tracking later on.
I’d connect each to smooth anchor links from the homepage to make it feel natural and connected (instead of just random pages).
Yoast SEO plugin for meta and sitemap stuff, image ALT text for all media, and clean header structure (h1 to h3 order). Page load stays under 1.5s usually if caching’s setup right. WCAG compliant enough — color contrast is strong but might tweak button hover colors later.
Overall it’s a clean, strong build — visual without being too flashy. If you were rebuilding or cloning it, most of the time would go into templates and making sure the forms and GridBuilder filters all play nice together. If you’re looking for a new website, you know who to call, MKS Web Design is here to help!
