Background
Vantage Bank needed a website that could meet the expectations of a modern financial institution without making content management harder than it needed to be.
The Texas-based, family-owned bank serves customers across 22 locations and has operated for more than a century. Its website had to support trust, security, accessibility, performance, and day-to-day marketing needs, but the existing CMS implementation was holding the team back.
Simple content updates often required developer support. The site was difficult to scale. Performance was not where it needed to be. For a bank, those issues are not small. Customers need fast access to location information, alerts, contact options, services, and secure pathways between marketing and transactional experiences.
Turn Agency worked with Vantage Bank to assess the existing setup and recommend a better long-term CMS. Even with the security and performance requirements of a banking website, Turn recommended Umbraco as the right fit because it could give the bank stronger authoring control, reliable security, and a more flexible technical foundation.
Solution
Turn Agency rebuilt the Vantage Bank website with Umbraco, creating a secure, scalable, and easier-to-manage digital experience for the bank’s customers and internal teams.
The project included ADA accessibility improvements, mobile-friendly design, Azure infrastructure, stronger performance, and a content management experience that allowed Vantage Bank’s marketing team to publish more independently.
Turn also used Umbraco’s technical ecosystem to support a more reliable development process. uSync helped manage schema changes across multiple instances, reducing manual database work and making multi-environment updates easier to handle.
The team also built more advanced banking website features, including real-time global and branch-specific alerts using GeoIP, along with third-party branch location data synchronization.
Late in the project, Vantage Bank added a new requirement for load balancing. Turn was able to adapt the Umbraco implementation without derailing the launch, giving the bank the added resilience it needed while keeping the project on track.
Impact
Vantage Bank launched its new Umbraco website on time and under budget, even after adding load balancing late in the project.
The new CMS gave the bank’s marketing team more control. Content contribution expanded from one person to a wider group of internal users, allowing the team to publish updates faster and manage content without depending on developers for every change.
Customers also gained a faster, clearer website experience, with smooth movement between the marketing site and transactional banking services. The new setup gave Vantage Bank a secure and scalable website that could support its brand, branch network, accessibility needs, and future growth.
For Turn Agency, the project proved that Umbraco can support demanding financial services websites where security, performance, accessibility, and editor experience all matter at the same time.
For Vantage Bank, the value of Umbraco was clear: a banking website that is secure enough for financial services, flexible enough for marketing, and scalable enough for a growing Texas banking brand.
“We came to Turn with a request for a website overhaul. Immediately, Turn recommended Umbraco. With Umbraco as the CMS, Turn has used their expertise and skill to “turn” our vision of our website’s functionality and design into a reality. Umbraco gives us maximum functionality and it is easy to use. It has proven to be everything that the Turn Team assured us it would be. And because Turn is as skilled as they are with Umbraco, they have made our onboarding as seamless as we could have possibly imagined. Thank you, Turn, and thank you, Umbraco!”
