23 Sep 2019

Developing our teams

As part of our commitment at Catch to ensuring that our teams are as equipped for success as they can be, we recently engaged Annabel Shilton, an experienced Business Coach and Consultant, to provide a leadership and management training programme for our management teams.

We took time out last Thursday for this dynamic and engaging workshop, starting with the foundations of the difference between leadership & management, then moving on to how we can all gain from improving on empowerment, ownership & responsibility and how communication is at the centre of effective leadership.

The team had a great day and left feeling empowered to better support not only themselves, but their own teams through better personal effectiveness and communication. We're looking forwards to putting into practise some of the new skills and techniques learned from the workshop.

About Annabel: Annabel Shilton has over 18 years of experience as an Executive Coach, Coach Supervisor and Consultant. Her previous roles in strategic marketing with global companies have equipped her with the unique ability to integrate business, marketing and people strategies, deliver organisational objectives, increase people engagement and productivity. She has worked with many senior executives and top teams in both large and small organisations on coaching and change programmes with a specific focus on developing leaders to build organisations to which people want to belong.

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SES: Drupal 8, front-end teardown

We’ve just designed and built a new website for the world-leading satellite operator, SES. SES connects and enables broadcast, telecom, corporate and government customers, and enriches the lives of billions of people worldwide.

We’re really proud of how it’s turned out, and as it’s one of the first batch of high-profile large Drupal 8 websites, we’ve been asked by a wide range of people about our technical approach to building a complex site using the latest version of Drupal.

You can read our case study here on the project as a whole, but here is Stuart Wilson, Head of Frontend Development at Catch to explain a little more around our front-end approach:

“The sheer scale of the SES website demanded a scalable and comprehensive front end system. As a team we approached the transition from design to code by creating a static style guide of individual components which would then be used to power the Drupal 8 website.

Our modular CSS was written in SASS using NPM to run build scripts and wrapping it up with PostCSS’ Autoprefixer for greater resilience to browser inconsistencies. Using BEM syntax and championing an OOCSS approach allowed us to write configurable componentry which was open to extension, but closed to core modification which meant that QA testing could happen earlier on in the build.

“The sheer scale of the SES website demanded a scalable and comprehensive front end system."

STUART WILSON, HEAD OF FRONT END DEVELOPMENT AT CATCH

Thanks to Drupal 8’s use of the Twig templating engine, we could test the flexibility of our HTML templates using mock data which was then swappable for real content from the CMS. This created a unified theming workflow with clear ownership between the front and back end of the website and helped reduce code overhead whilst instilling scalability within the UI.

Thanks to our modular approach, we were able to utilise Drupal Paragraphs to promote greater flexibility across content types in the CMS, enabling SES to realise any combination of page designs they required.”

Visit www.ses.com and stay tuned for future SES developments. We’re continuing to work with the team in Luxembourg on increased website functionality and a range of other exciting digital products.