Website Bluefrog Built for Phoenix Elks Lodge #335 Named 2026 Top Arizona Elks Website
Phoenix Elks Lodge #335 has announced that its website, phx.elks.news — the custom community platform designed and built by Bluefrog — has been named the 2026 Top Arizona Elks Website by the Arizona Elks Association. The recognition belongs to the Lodge. Bluefrog built the software underneath it.
SCOTTSDALE, Ariz. — October 19, 2026 — Phoenix Elks Lodge #335 announced today that its Lodge website has been named the 2026 Top Arizona Elks Website by the Arizona Elks Association, an honor the Lodge describes as going to the Elks Lodge website in Arizona that best serves its members and community. The site, phx.elks.news, was designed and built by Bluefrog and is maintained as a working system rather than a template.
It is the Lodge's second recognition this year. Phoenix Elks #335 was also named Arizona Elks Association Lodge of the Year at the AEA Convention in May 2026 — an award for the Lodge's work, not its website, and a reminder of whose activity the site exists to carry.
The Lodge's own announcement credits the people who make the site worth building — the officers, committee chairs and volunteers behind every event, newsletter and news story published on it. That framing is the right one, and Bluefrog echoes it: an organization's website is only as good as the organization feeding it. What Bluefrog contributed is the platform that makes feeding it practical.
What was built
phx.elks.news is a custom PHP and Bootstrap community platform, not a hosted site builder or a theme. It carries the Lodge's events and fundraisers with flyers updated as they are announced, Lodge news, the full Tracks newsletter archive, program pages for the Lodge's veterans, youth and community work, and more than a century of Phoenix Elks history — including Past Exalted Rulers and the Wall of Remembrance for absent members.
It is built to work on any phone, tablet or computer, follows accessibility best practices so that every member can use it, and installs to a phone's home screen as a web app — no app store, no download, always current. For a volunteer-run organization, that last part matters more than it sounds: the people maintaining the site are the same people running the events.
Why this kind of work sits alongside the AI
Bluefrog is an AI systems integrator, and most of its current work connects AI to the operational systems businesses already run on. Community software like this looks different on the surface and is the same discipline underneath: take the real activity of an organization, move it through software reliably, and give the people running it something they can act on. The Lodge's site is that principle applied to a membership organization instead of a service business.
About Phoenix Elks Lodge #335
Phoenix Elks Lodge #335 is a Phoenix, Arizona membership organization serving veterans, youth and the surrounding community through volunteer-run programs, fundraisers and charitable work. The Lodge's announcement of the recognition is published at phx.elks.news.
About Bluefrog
Bluefrog is an AI systems integrator that connects artificial intelligence with the software, communications, marketing and operational data companies already run on — ServiceTitan, Jobber, Google, Meta, CRM, voice, web and custom APIs. Building technology since 1997 and veteran-owned, the company splits its time between Scottsdale, Arizona and Oklahoma City and Tulsa, Oklahoma. Learn more at bluefrog.ai, or see our work.
The 2026 Top Arizona Elks Website recognition was awarded by the Arizona Elks Association to Phoenix Elks Lodge #335, not to Bluefrog. Details of the recognition in this release are as published by the Lodge. Bluefrog is an independent technology company and is not affiliated with or endorsed by the Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks or any of its state associations. Product and organization names are the property of their respective owners.