About Diatonic

About Diatonic

I’m David Sawatzky, web design freelancer under the moniker of Diatonic Web Development.  Diatonic was born in 2020 out of an insatiable drive to learn and create, and a love for coding.  After several years as a professor of music, something called Covid came along and my world changed forever.  I jumped head-first into web development and haven’t looked back.

You might ask how a someone in music could get into web development.  Actually, its not as much of a stretch as it may appear.  Music, after all, is its own code.  It has its own logic, conventions and structures, all encoded into a system of symbols and notation.  And its all wrapped around solid theoretical systems of melody, harmony, and rhythm.  Once deciphered, the finished product is a creative marvel of sound that always exudes a reaction from a listener.

This is how I approach my own code and design work – assembling structured bits of information in order to create something that’s creative, unique, functional, and fully representative of the subject at hand.  Whether it’s writing a web application in a JavaScript framework like React or Vue, building databases and APIs with PostgreSQL and GraphQL, building WordPress sites, using platforms like Wix or Squarespace, or just writing straight-up HTML, CSS and JavaScript, the ultimate goal is to give your business or non-profit website a character and design that works for you and best represents who you are and what you do.

Give me a shout if you’re looking to get online, need help with a current project, or have a site that needs a makeover. I’m more than happy to help.