Florida Transit Technician Program (FTTP) Training Website.

Overview

The Florida Transit Technician Program (FTTP) trains the people who keep Florida's public buses running. Training is free. The Florida Department of Transportation (FDOT) runs the program, and Lively Technical College in Tallahassee delivers it. Craxinno designed and built the FTTP transit technician training website at floridattp.com. It gives transit agencies across Florida one home for courses, sign-ups, newsletters and repair guides.

The challenge

FTTP's courses, newsletters and files were spread across many places. A state program needed one clear, trusted site that its own staff could update each month. The site had to:

• Build trust by showing the program's partners and the people to contact.
• Make 20 courses easy to scan so technicians and managers find the right one fast.
• Make it easy to apply from every key page, or book a course by email.
• Put all files in one place, from templates and forms to manuals and videos.
• Keep agencies up to date with a monthly newsletter.
• Be easy for staff to edit with no developer, and be accessible to every user.

What we built

We built a six-page WordPress site: Home, Program Info, Courses, Resources & Links, Contact and Apply. The Apply button appears in the header, the hero, the courses page and the footer.

• Course catalog: 20 courses in tidy accordions, grouped into Courses I, II, III and Component Training. Some lead to Braun, Fogmaker, EPA 608 or DVOM certificates.
• Apply and contact forms: "Apply Today" buttons across the site, plus email links to book a course.
• Newsletter archive: monthly PDF issues sorted by year, with the latest one on the homepage.
• Resource library: 35+ downloads, including maintenance plans, inspection forms, work orders, road call logs and vendor manuals.
• Partner links: 12 partner groups, such as FDOT, CUTR at USF, the Florida Transit Maintenance Consortium and Florida RTAP.
• Impact counters: 100% free training, 50+ course modules and 500+ technicians trained.
• Photos and events: a training photo gallery and an events calendar for course dates.
• Accessibility and analytics: a skip link, an accessibility toolbar, Google Analytics 4 and Search Console.

Design approach

We put trust and clarity first. The clean layout shows FDOT and Lively Technical College up front. It names the people technicians can call. The path to apply is always in view. Long course text sits in accordions. Files are grouped by system, such as brakes, fire safety, HVAC and lifts. Newsletters are sorted by year, so people scan instead of scroll. The site works well on phones, so technicians can use it on the shop floor.

The result

FTTP now has one trusted transit technician training website. Agencies across Florida use it to find free courses, apply online and download repair guides. The site shows 100% free training, 50+ course modules and 500+ technicians trained. The client's own team posts newsletters, photos and files each month with no developer help.

We built a sister site for the same college: see the LPIP paratransit training website. Want a site like this? Explore our web development services or more projects.

Stack

WordPress, Elementor Pro, Astra, Essential Addons for Elementor, Dynamic Content for Elementor, The Events Calendar, One Click Accessibility, Google Site Kit, Google Analytics 4, PHP, MySQL and jQuery.