Building a website for engineers is super cool. It gives you a childish glee because you sort of become an engineer by association. So writing code feels more like constructing and modeling and tinkering and getting your hands dirty. I need a hard hat.
Working with Catapult Design was a continuous pleasure from our initial pizza party discovery session to celebratory cocktails at the Orbit Room. I was particularly excited to flex more code muscle on this project than usual, deploying Jquery for sliding tabs and folding menu affects. A real strength of this effort that I’d like to highlight was Jonathan Motzkin’s design, which was an elegant articulation of Catapult’s desire for something cutting edge, yet easy to manage. We were looking at some really snazzy Flash sites as models, and I think Jonathan’s pragmatic consulting steered the project toward a wise execution. Catapult will be better off for it down the line, since adding and editing content, even slideshow images, will be a relative cinch on a site powered by HTML/CSS and Javascript.
