Life (Part 2) is a PBS television series by and about the 26% of the American population who are 55 and older. Host Robert Lipsyte, an Emmy winner and former New York Times columnist, uses his tough-minded journalistic instincts, ever-ready wit, and very strong opinions to ensure that baby boomers overcome their denial and face facts: the time to do something about age-related issues is right now.

Gorton Studios worked with the staff of Life (Part 2) to design and develop a media-rich website as an online complement for the tone and content of the series. In addition to providing a blogging platform, lots of video, exclusive essays, interviews and more, the site also hooks into social media outlets like Twitter and Facebook. And, on top of it all, we built it in a way that makes it very easy for the show's producers to manage and extend as needed.

The new site is built entirely with Drupal, which makes it (to the best of our knowledge) the first Drupal website used for a PBS show. PBS has previously used Drupal in it's Engage platform and associated tools; it's great to see that they're continuing to adopt this awesome, flexible, responsive tool!

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 on our Drupal.org profile or at http://www.gortonstudios.com

Comments

michelle’s picture

What's the URL? I tried Google and it gave me http://www.pbs.org/lifepart2 but that URL doesn't work. Totally made my browser flip out. Never seen anything like it. The tab was just flashing and reloading like mad. LOL

Michelle

hairyspuds’s picture

http://www.pbs.org/lifepart2 seems to work ok in Firefox

dgorton’s picture

I woke up this morning thinking - "did I forget to link to the Life (Part 2) site in my post?"

And, yes, I did. The URL is in fact http://www.pbs.org/lifepart2 - I edited the main post as well.

As to this issue you were having, I would be very happy to know more about it. Would you be willing to have an offline conversation to let us know more?

michelle’s picture

I just checked it and whatever it was seems to have gone away. Unless someone else reports problems, I wouldn't worry about it. It could have just been a glitch in my browser. Opera behaves weirdly sometimes.

Michelle