On Redesigning the Front Page of Talking Points Memo
This week, we launched a redesign of TPM’s front page. This project has been my labor of love for the past month, so I’d like to talk a little bit about its genesis, process and eventual fruition.

This week, we launched a redesign of TPM’s front page. This project has been my labor of love for the past month, so I’d like to talk a little bit about its genesis, process and eventual fruition.


The cafe feature section
A busy week in newsgathering draws to a close. The masses converged on Washington to witness Change™ come to America, and TPM launched a new blog. TPMDC, the successor to TPM Election Central opened its doors on Monday, and with it a new feature/headline section. We also deployed a version of this feature section on TPMCafe.
Here’s a little bit about how I designed this section, and how it is integrated into our CMS, Movable Type.
A reader sent this in with the subject line “how I got my news during the Obama rally”

via flickr user jen and joe
I’m so proud of our country and of TPM right now. What an amazing night.
New Flash/Actionscript work at TPM: The Palin Effect. I also finally freed TPM from sidebar oppression for glorious 900px wide special projects.
Imitation the most sincere form of flattery? My first venture into Flash/Actionscript programming, an interactive map of McCain’s robocalls and mailers for TPM, was copied, snazzed up and released by the Obama campaign a day later. Many thanks to TPM intern Josh Sherman for helping create the map and working with me with on another Flash project we’re planning to release on Monday. I’ll x-post here when we do.
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