• Catch has been very busy;
• Catch now has a girl working here;
• Catch launched a site for Fly Buys;
• Catch has won a lot of cool work (wish we could tell you… but it’s a secret);
• Catch launched a site for Wellington Rugby Football Union;
• Catch has a toasty machine;
• Catch launched a site for Crazy Horse the Steak House;
• Catch needs more developers… anyone keen?
• Catch launched a site for 8Interactive;
• Catch is going green (in a save the planet-kind-of-way);
• Catch launched a site for INF;
• Catch has designed some iPhone thingys;
• Catch launched a site for VUWSA;
• Catch is about to launch websites for Scots College Wellington, Copenhagen Museum, USU, Talking Tech and Vehicle Testing New Zealand;
• Catch has built a site for Bank of New Zealand (design by the wonderful people @ DNA);
• Catch has built a site for NZ Post (design by the wonderful people @ DNA);
• Catch has built a site for Moriori (design by the wonderful people @ DNA);
• Catch humbly apologises for the lack of updates;
• Catch hearts your face.

The end… for now.

Scopa Caffe Cucina and Duke Carvells. Scopa, great traditional pizza, legend Italian hot chocolate – cornerstone of a vibrant Cuba St community. Brothers Leonardo and Lorenzo Bresolin arrived on site May 2006 and together with their father, Remiro, raised Scopa to become a favourite with Wellingtonians and visitors alike. And Duke Carvells, the boutique tappers bar in Swan Lane, Wellington, was opened in late 2008. After the success of Scopa, the Bresolin boys struck gold in a 2911 brick building, deep in the Cuba Quarter. Cuisine says “Duke Carvell’s has the air of a shabby, slightly suspect, gentlemen’s club…” The boys at Catch were asked to design and build two sites that caught the vibrancy and colourful atmosphere that’s made Scopa and ‘Dukes’ two of Wellington’s most popular restaurants! Watch this space for more to come…

Salient. Nominated for a 2009 Qantas Media Award, the Salient website is the online companion to the weekly magazine of the Victoria University of Wellington Students’ Association. This recent release being the third in a long-standing relationship between Catch and Salient. The best yet… we think.

Beacon Pathway Ltd. a collaborative research consortium working to find affordable ways to make New Zealand homes more resource-efficient, cheaper to run, healthier to live in – and kinder to our environment. With design from DNA, Beacon was a complex challenge with multiple layers of content, permission levels and general IA challenges. Catch Design was contracted to build the back-end, which included all xHTML/CSS templates and development using Expression Engine.

Tax Management New Zealand. As the innovators of tax pooling in New Zealand, Tax Management New Zealand make provisional tax payments easier for New Zealand businesses. Their old website was drastically out-of-date and in need of an overhaul. Catch Design was approached to re-design their public-facing website in August 2008, as well as their entire application for accountants and businesses. With a desire to further enhance their Google rankings and public face, TMNZ asked Catch Design to again re-think the site structure and design.

Hurricanes. The Official Website of the 2009 Rebel Sport Super 14 Hurricanes, Team Catch pulled out a lot of late nights and early mornings to overhaul, design and build the new Hurricanes site in a matter of weeks.

And a few others that went live in 2009:

• Creative Peoples Centre
• All Saints Church
• Motu
• It Rockstar (CSS/HTML and Development only)

Busy times as always in the Catch offices, but one quick site to check out is Basketball NZ. Designed and built by the kids at Catch. We’re stoked with how it’s been received – design sites like it, Radio Sport think it’s cool, and BBNZ are pretty chuffed as well.

Check it out!

The end of 2006 saw the departure of Cam Trollope from the Catch ranks. Cam has been with us from the start and it’s been a huge privilage to work with him. Without a doubt, he’s one of the hottest web designers out there and his knowledge and expertise in creating beautifully-designed sites will be sorely missed. We’re really sad to see him go, but wish him every success in the future.

It’s not all bad news though. Late last year we employed a fresh new designer from Design School, Kristin Ballard. I’m reluctant to use the ‘excited’ too much because it makes us sound like a PR firm. Okay, being honest though, we’re stoked to have her working with us. She’s really, really, really good. There ya go… no excited’s.

This week, we also welcomed another designer, Allan Mansfield to the team. Again, a fresh out of Design School boy, this guy has heaps of talent and we’re stoked he’s on the team.

We’ve got one more joining in about a week… but it’s all a big secret… tell ya later. We’ll be writing more about our staff soon.

And finally, today we launched the brand new Elim International Church website. Check it out when you have a moment.

Coming up in the next week or so are some hot new launches to go along with Elim. We can’t really say at this stage, but we know you’re gonna love it.

Catch ya round!

The leading independent vehicle inspections company in New Zealand, VTNZ were after a fresh, yet professional public-facing site that complimented their strong branding already in place. Built and developed by Outwide, this was a fantastic project to work on. Gavin and his team should be well proud!

Salient is Victoria University of Wellington’s student magazine. In 2006, it turns 68 and in its long life has transformed from a small missive into a weekly, free, 64-page magazine that has won critical acclaim from several quarters.

The new website gives readers the ability to interact with the writers by adding comments to all articles. There’s a lot more planned for the site so watch this space.

Also, look out for the newly designed VUWSA site…coming soon…

The company has undergone a change of shareholding along with a new name, Soltius (pronounced sol-shus) New Zealand. The management team who are existing shareholders are acquiring the remaining shares held by Intelligroup New Zealand. You can read more about that here.

Catch Design was contracted to deliver the new brand, collateral and website design. From here, you can see what was launched today. Enjoy.

The website is essentially one massive library of articles that a are categorised by themes and topics. Using our customised Content Management System, Soul Purpose are able to create, edit and manage the site as much as they want.

sIFR makes a debut

One of our goals with this site was to delve into Scalable Inman Flash Replacement (sIFR), a standards-compliant way to deliver rich typographical text in a flexible manner to over 90% of web users.

To date, there is no easy way to deliver rich typography using HTML/CSS. With CSS we can size, style, color, kern, show, and hide our text but we can’t deliver something classical typesetters have delivered since at least the 15th century: custom typography. In concert with Shaun Inman and Tomas Jogin, Mike Davidson released into the public domain a scalable, multiline, Flash 6 compatible version of IFR to help you reduce the amount of browser text in your life and free the world from the scourge of Arial. For a detailed explanation on how it all works, you can check out Mike’s blog.

Our brief was to design a site that highlighted the diversity of people and ministries that make up their church as well as create a functional and accessible platform for communicating with their church goers and wider community. The result, we believe, is a beautifully designed site that meets all web accessibility standards and guidlines and is extremely easy to get around.

Well done us.