Bike Walk Twin Cities (BWTC) is part of a federal initiative, the Non-Motorized Transportation Pilot Program to increase biking and walking, and decrease driving.
Bike Walk Twin Cities came to Gorton Studios needing to create a one-stop shop for information about Twin Cities biking & walking that played well with like-minded organizations. The site needed to be easy to administer and extend as additional activities and information became available. BWTC acts as the information and community hub for increasing biking and walking throughout the Twin Cities.
The site, built in Drupal 6, is a great combination of design and engineering and is built with the usual mix of CCK and Views. It also has an interesting technical feature in the homepage banner. As the weather is an important consideration for biking and walking in this region of the US, the homepage imagery and messaging are weather-aware. Different backgrounds (e.g downtown with rain falling), foregrounds (e.g. people walking with umbrellas) and message are managed by BWTC site admins and automatically change as the weather changes. This allows the site to have pertinent messaging year-round, without having to place an additional burden on the people managing the site.
Gorton Studios is an award-winning full-service web design and development company based in the Twin Cities (Minneapolis and St. Paul) of Minnesota. We build user-friendly, owner-friendly, results-oriented websites based on the Drupal platform. We also offer expert Drupal consulting and training. You can find out more about us and our work at http://drupal.org/node/232028 or http://www.gortonstudios.com
