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.
What I'm Working On
Anatomy of the New TPM Feature Sections
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.
TPM + iPhone + Grant Park
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.
The Palin Effect
New Flash/Actionscript work at TPM: The Palin Effect. I also finally freed TPM from sidebar oppression for glorious 900px wide special projects.
First venture into Flash/Actionscript for TPM
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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