Gorton Studios - Websites that Work

Logic Product Development

admin — Tue, 31 Mar 2009 09:26:39 -0500

Logic Product Development's website was hindered by cross-platform issues and an inability to easily add content. Gorton Studios worked with Logic to architect and build a much more functional and navigable site. The site was built in Drupal and will allow Logic the freedom to edit product and company information as needed. http://www.logicpd.com

Wellstone Action: The Process

admin — Wed, 25 Mar 2009 17:15:59 -0500

Drupal Case Study is online

Hopkins Public Schools

admin — Mon, 22 Dec 2008 18:47:28 -0600

Hopkins Public Schools had a very large collection of disparate webpages that needed to be re-imagined as a unified, cohesive site. Gorton Studios planned, designed, and developed a new site that enabled stylistic and brand consistency.

To make this 5,000-page plus site navigable, we created a simple—but flexible—menu system and a straightforward page layout that could accommodate many needs. We also created a sophisticated calendar system that worked for both school administrators and district-wide editors.

The administration was extremely pleased with how easy updating their website has become since launch.

http://www.hopkins.k12.mn.us/

NSF - Secrets of Plant Genomes: Revealed!

admin — Tue, 09 Sep 2008 16:53:58 -0500

Gorton Studios is pleased to announce the launch of Secrets of Plant Genomes: Revealed. Built as a resource for classroom learning and specifically designed for middle school and high school students, the website is chock full of engaging information, videos, images and interactives. It serves as the online companion for the documentary by the same name and is written in the same fun and approachable manner that makes the documentary so successful.

Gortons Studios designed and developed the site for the National Science Foundation (NSF) in partnership with Iowa State University. The site offers users of all ages a chance to go deeper and learn more about plant genomics, bioinformatics, and plant breeding.

http://www.plantgenomesecrets.org

Parents' Choice Award

admin — Wed, 03 Sep 2008 12:43:37 -0500

Gorton Studios wins another!

PBS - The Forgetting

admin — Wed, 20 Aug 2008 09:18:25 -0500

Gorton Studios is pleased to announce the launch of The Forgetting: A Portrait of Alzheimer's. This website is for the Primetime Emmy award-winning documentary that takes a dramatic, compassionate, all-encompassing look at the growing epidemic of Alzheimer’s disease.

The site was originally launched in 2004 to coincide with the original airing of the show. The original site, also produced by Gorton Studios, received much media attention and was variously described as "extremely thorough", "easy to navigate" and "the best Alzheimer's site out there". In the intervening years the research on Alheimer's has progressed and with the shows re-broadcast (also in August 2008) came an opportunity to redesign and rework the site to reflect the best current understandings of the disease.

The new site covers all the basics of Alzheimer's Disease, contains over 6 hours of online video (in both English and Spanish), hosts RSS Feeds from reputable news sources and a offers hundreds of links to vetted, well-established resources on specific topics, from support groups to diagnosis to scientific news.

Gorton Studios designed, developed and delivered all aspects of the website, including the management of writing and academic review processes.

http://www.pbs.org/theforgetting/

Little House on the Prairie

admin — Tue, 19 Aug 2008 22:04:43 -0500

Gorton Studios is proud to announce the launch of Little House on the Prairie website for the new musical that is breaking box-office records at the Guthrie Theater.

This new micro-site is presented within the Guthrie's existing Drupal-powered website (www.guthrietheater.org) and uses Flash animation to capitalize on the playful imagery of this new American musical.

The site offers many interactive areas, including spots where visitors can hear directly from the cast and creative team, watch behind the scenes videos of the production process, get the latest news, send eCards to friends and customize their computer desktops with Little House art.

http://www.guthrietheater.org/prairie

Wellstone Action!

admin — Tue, 13 May 2008 10:24:31 -0500

Wellstone Action is a national center for training and leadership development of the progressive movement. Wellstone Action honors the legacy of Paul and Sheila Wellstone by continuing their work through training, educating, mobilizing and organizing a vast network of progressive individuals and organizations.

With their ever-changing events, classes and seminars, Wellstone Action! needed a site that was easy to update and maintain and a content structure that was flexible and responsive to changing (and growing) organizational needs. Gorton Studios accomplished all of it and more with this new Drupal-based website.

For more information on this project and the process behind it, please read the Drupal.org Case Study on the project.

http://wellstone.org/

Drupal + Boston (+ Rockband?) = Love!

admin — Sat, 08 Mar 2008 11:19:56 -0600

The annual Drupal Convention was amazing. Being honored? Even more so.

W3 Award Winner

admin — Fri, 29 Feb 2008 17:43:26 -0600

Gorton Studios wins a Silver Medal!