[ctbergstrom]

After talking to an awful lot of 18-20 year olds (our target audience) we decided we wanted to go with a "scrollytellying" style. I'm not a designer and I've done worked in that style before. After looking into a range of platforms — Vev and Closeread for Quarto deserve particular mention — I felt that Shorthand (https://shorthand.com/) was the best option for rapid development given my lack of experience in this whole process.

In general I've been very pleased. You don't have the fine scale control you do on a platform like Vev, but for someone like me that is probably a good thing because it keeps me from mucking around quite as much as I otherwise would with design decisions that I don't really understand.

The price is a bit steep for a self-funded operation and we're constrained a bit by the need to use their starter tier, but I feel like we are definitely getting our money's worth and customer support from Shorthand has been exemplary.