Welcome to the Town of Duck
Town of Duck
A thriving coastal community shaped by clean waters and beaches, maritime forests, wetlands, dunescapes, independent businesses, and the Town Park and Boardwalk at the heart of Duck.
Find your lane
The homepage can welcome everyone without making everyone read everything.
Duck has unusually mixed audiences for a small town: year-round residents, out-of-town owners, visitors, businesses, eventgoers, media, and staff. This prototype makes those paths visible while keeping the natural beauty up front.
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Resident essentials
Waste and recycling, E-news, council meetings, public projects, alerts, permits, and services that should be reachable in one or two clicks.
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Visitor day plan
Beach safety, boardwalk map, events, live cams, golf cart guidance, and quick links framed around arrival, weather, water, and getting around.
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Business and permit path
Community Development, permits, guidelines, comprehensive plan material, public notices, and project context grouped as a practical work lane.
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Meeting and records path
Agendas, videos, minutes, public comment instructions, event-feed meeting dates, and source documents shown together instead of split across archives.
Answer-first civic UX
The site should answer before it asks people to understand the org chart.
Department navigation remains available, but the primary experience can be a governed civic answer layer: source-backed, citation-first, and careful about uncertainty. For Duck, that means beach safety, alerts, services, meetings, events, records, and projects can all start with a question.
Fast paths
Common Duck tasks, grouped by human intent.
The current site already has strong signals: beach conditions, live cams, E-news, Duck Tales, council videos, events, permits, waste, and the boardwalk. This concept keeps those priorities and makes them easier to scan.
Beach information
Find safety rules, lifeguard guidance, warning flags, access notes, and dune protection reminders.
Resident serviceTrash and recycling
Report missed collection, request cans, and check seasonal service rhythms.
BusinessApply for a permit
Route development, business, facility, and community development requests.
GovernmentView agendas and videos
Find agenda PDFs, meeting videos, minutes, public comment instructions, and future meetings.
VisitorFind the park and boardwalk
Open the boardwalk map, rules, amenities, parking context, and public kayak launch information.
NewsSign up for E-news
Connect residents, property owners, visitors, and media to weekly updates.
VisitorView live cams
Route to the live boardwalk camera and Duck Road traffic cameras.
SafetyGet OBX Alerts
Keep public safety alerts, storm updates, and beach-condition channels easy to find.
RFP response surface
Search, calendar, media, CMS, accessibility. Working in the prototype, not just promised.
The RFP asks for advanced search, document indexing, a flexible calendar, media components, social integration, reusable patterns, and ongoing accessibility reporting. This build demonstrates those surfaces using official Duck source material.
Natural systems, civic systems
A site architecture that follows Duck's geography.
Beach and safety
Beach flags, lifeguards, access notes, OBX Alerts, storm information.
Village and services
Permits, waste, parking context, live traffic cameras, business resources.
Soundside and civic life
Boardwalk, Town Park, events, council records, projects, E-news.
Source-backed
Built from official Duck sources.
- Website Redesign and CMS Implementation RFPIssued April 23, 2026. Proposal due date in the PDF is May 14, 2026 at 5:00 p.m. EST.
- RFP public noticeOfficial news post with the same RFP scope, required features, contact, and submission label.
- Town homepagePlace language, current navigation, news, events, cams, and official social channels.
- Town Park and Soundside Boardwalk11-acre Town Park, nearly mile-long Soundside Boardwalk, amenities, rules, and nature facts.
- Public InformationPublic information department, E-news, Duck Tales, videos, and official contact details.
- Town CouncilMeeting cadence, agenda, videos, public comment instructions, and council records.
- Our BeachBeach access, lifeguards, warning flags, dune protection, and beach rules.
- Events iCal feedPrototype event examples captured from the official iCal feed on June 6, 2026.
- Town projects and resiliency pagesProject navigation and shoreline, trail, stormwater, resiliency, and Herron Property examples visible in the current site structure.