Academy charts a new course with digital rebrand.

The Cal Maritime Academy in Vallejo, CA was changing course—and needed a website to match its new direction. As part of the effort to integrate California Maritime with Cal Poly, Rolling Orange was selected to help redesign the Academy’s site. The goal was to reframe their content and messaging within Cal Poly’s digital environment, creating a seamless brand experience. Working closely and collaboratively with Cal Poly’s talented University Marketing and Communications team, we restructured the site to reflect the Academy’s evolving identity as part of Cal Poly.

The redesigned site brings Cal Poly Maritime’s hands-on, immersive approach to life, showcasing programs that prepare students for leadership in maritime, engineering, and global logistics. The site’s simplified navigation and refined content presentation helps prospective students and families quickly find what they need and better understand the value of a Cal Poly Maritime Academy education. We also migrated the entire gateway presence over from a proprietary CMS environment to Cal Poly’s state-of-the-art Drupal platform. The result is a clean, modern web presence that captures the spirit of the integrated brand and supports its long-term goals.