Look for older books published by Ortho or Sunset on contemporary/ranch landscape design. This housing style is a very popular one on the west coast, and is well covered for design ideas. It may also be more interesting to explore the idea of not having foundation plantings of any kind with such a house, if your lot is large enough, it may be possible to set larger plantings away from the house to be appreciated from inside, both at ground level and to be looked down upon from the second story, and limit foundation plantings to lower shrubs or ground covers and create islands of taller plants away from the house.

I think landscaping a bilevel or splitlevel home is very difficult. There is a website called splitlevel.net that gives some very basic suggestions. Sorry I'm not computer literate enough to post the link. I have a bilevel and most of the advice for "regular" (that is one level) ranch homes seems to apply pretty well. The basic idea is to build out the front entrance a bit, using a courtyard or patio type of effect. Good luck.
PS Lucky you living in Canton. This Steelers fan loved the Football Hall of Fame. My husband got to visit it again when he and the guys from work went to see Dan Marino go into Hall of Fame. One his friends is a big time Marino fan.