• 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)

My challenge for Adobe (if they wish to accept) is to fix this for CS4—surely an aliased underline isn’t rocket science? Or perhaps someone can write a nice little action to do just this—unless of course no one notices this pitfall apart from me…

We here at Catch love Yahoo’s CSS reset, but I must admit — there are time’s it seems excessive to have to re-define all the page elements till you are “working with nothing”.

I wonder if I would notice the same issue with a left-aligned site? I’m not sure if I would…

Centered certainly seems to be the most popular way of laying out a site at the moment, but there was a time when it wasn’t. Does the prevalence of widescreen monitors mean centered will always be popular, because left- or right-aligned sites cause us to move our necks too far?

When did Adobe first introduce image slices, was it ImageStyler? Sheesh, that was released in 1998! That’s 10 years. ImageStyler then got merged into ImageReady I think, and was bundled with Photoshop – 2001 is the earliest I can find that.

Of the 3.5 web designers in this office, I am the only one who uses slices.

You people out there who still crop, how do you keep track of all your files? Do you create actions that: crop to selection, flatten image, save-as-jpg? Or do you do it manually?

Get with the times people! Slices are the way of the future – heck, they’re the way of the PAST!