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tarbell-talk

A talk about Tarbell for #SNDMakes

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Meet Tarbell

A familiar situation

Investigators spend months on an important investigation. Designers prepare a nice series identity and awesome page layouts. Graphics journalists make great explanatory charts and diagrams. And then when it's time to put it on the web, it gets jammed into the CMS. Stories in the series look like every other article on the site, and the series index page is totally uninspired. What should have been a smash lands with a whimper.

A solution

What's This All About

  • Self-contained: free of CMS constraints
  • Templates ensure consistency, save time
  • Static HTML: no servers to run
  • Editors empowered to manage copy

Do That Again

Tarbell is born

Successes

several graphics desk "non-coders" have created microsites with Tarbell

Challenges

  • Very command-line heavy
  • Initial setup is abstract
  • Needs some kind of server space (S3, etc)
  • Outside of CMS sometimes an issue

tarbell.tribapps.com