Catchlight has designed and managed the NZBeauty EXPO website since 2005, creating the website from supplied branding and print material, and developed it to provide a full informational point for the biennial NZBeauty EXPO event. The site contains timetables, speaker biographies, expo galleries, registration forms, and is updated regularly before, during and after the event.
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NZBeauty EXPO 2011
New Zealand Beauty Industry EXPO
Arthur's Court Motor Lodge
New Zealand's first 5 star, Enviro Gold, Christchurch City Motel
Arthur's Court Motor Lodge had simple requirements, redesign their old website to make the best website we've ever done! The reason: to decrease the bounce rate and increase the time on the site. Catchlight succeeded in all of the above.
Andrea Biani Shoes South Island New Zealand
Fashion Retail
Andrea Biani Shoes (South Island) engaged Catchlight to create a simple and high impact ecommerce store. Catchlight delivered a solution that fitted Andrea Biani's exisitng systems and was integrated with their social media objectives. Catchlight also completed strategy, design and training for the online store and accompanying Facebook page.
Cortexo
Christchurch based Energy Technology Developers
Catchlight worked with Christchurch based energy technologists and software developers, Cortexo and IT marketing specialists Concentrate, to provide a high-end theme for their CMS website.
That's The Story
Children's Radio Show
Catchlight helped develop initial concepts to realise That's The Story's vision - an ever-expanding site full of interactive games, original audio stories, photo galleries, video and a business directory. That's the Story is a fun, friendly and colourful experience for all ages.
Waihi Bush
Functional Whole Foods Flaxseed Oil Brand
The Waihi Bush website was designed by Catchlight to align with the company's new marketing strategy. It includes websites for their Southern Omega brand and a corporate website for Functional Wholefoods based on a similar look.
Fyffe on Riccarton
Motel Accommodation
Fyffe on Riccarton wanted to improve their motel website's Google rankings and also to have a fully content managed website so they could easily keep their guests up-to-date with events in and around Christchurch. The site also links in directly with the motel's booking system. The new site now ranks well in search engines and both enquiries and bookings have gone up.
Graphic Glass
Glaziers and Manufacturers of Glass Splashbacks
Use of bespoke animated galleries to showcase product photos. All content organised into cohesive pages with USP on each page. Modern website to suit modern products.
Heathcote Valley Preschool
Early Childhood Preschool in Christchurch
To go with their brand-new state of the art early childhood education centre, the Heathcote Valley Preschool wanted a modern, professional and future proofed website which can be fully content managed by the preschool staff. There are pages and pages of content on the site as well as numerous photos and slideshow animation.
Linwood Law
Christchurch based Legal and Immigration specialists
Catchlight took the existing Wordpress website, upgraded it and added SEO modules and created a new theme more fitting with the Linwood Law branding.
Mainland Real Estate
Tourism Property Real Estate Brokerage
The brokerage team at Mainland Real Estate wanted a modern new website to showcase their tourism property listings. The new website needed to be fully searchable as well as having the ability for visitors to select multiple properties per enquiry form. All listings on the site are managed and uploaded easily by Mainland Real Estate.
Innerswitch Hypnotherapy
Innerswitch Hypnotherapy
Innerswitch is run by Alison Adams, a highly trained, friendly and professional hypnotherapist. It was for these reasons that Catchlight are very proud of the Innerswitch website. The website is fully content managed and features a regularly maintained blog
Jemima Helmore Photography
Wedding and Family Photographer, Christchurch
Jemima Helmore needed a new website to showcase her wonderful wedding and family photography using a unique horizontal scrolling action. She also wanted a simple to use client area where she could easily upload her photographs for her clients to view via a password protected log-in. With content copywriting and back-end web standards coding Jemima's website has also improved its search engine ranking.
Whanau Ora
Geneology and Family Health Web Application
In conjunction with software developers Cortexo, Catchlight created wireframes, visual design, CSS and HTML templates for this geneology web application to help families in New Zealand combat recurring health issues. The Whanau Ora website includes a family tree coded entirely using CSS and HTML, without having to use any slow-loading Flash.
Caylx NZ Ltd
Business Software Solutions
This is a simple and very effective brochure website that integrates CAYLX branding. The website has had great feedback and has worked extremely well as a sales support tool.
Nikau Cottage
Boutique Cottage Accommodation, Mangawhai
Nikau Cottage is luxurious boutique accommodation in Managawhai Heads and wanted a brochure website to show off this lovely cottage. The website prominently features a gallery of photos of the cottage as well as Booking information and online payment via PayPal to make things that much easier for the Nikau Cottage owners.
Maildrop
Email Newsletter Management
The Maildrop website is to showcase Catchlight's email newsletter management system. The site details all the features and benefits of the product as well as a secure log-in area for clients. Of course it also features a Newsletter sign-up which integrates directly with Catchlight's own Maildrop database of subscribers.
Courtenay Washington
Professional Singer
A smart and stylish design to suit Courtenay's classy vocal style. The request a booking form is allows visitors to book Courtenay for engagements via the website and a CMS is installed to allow advertising of upcoming gigsvia the homepage What's New area.
Automatic Gates New Zealand
FAAC, Italian made Automatic Gates
Catchlight created a clean and easy to use informational site that makes use of our online catalogue system. The site allows users such as architects and engineers to add PDFs of individual FAAC™ products to an 'InfoCart' which are then emailed to the user when they 'check-out'.
The Voice Box
Boutique Recording Studio
The Voice Box is the home of one of New Zealand's top radio production engineers, Phil Yule. The site features regular updates of what The Voice Box have been up to, both in radio and TV post-production. The site contains a large body of audio and video clips.
Counselling Skills Institute of New Zealand
Counseling Training Facility
The Counseling Skills Institute of New Zealand commissioned Catchlight to create a modern looking new website to fit their brand. Catchlight implemented a stylish user-friendly interface and content management system. Catchlight also provided training to allow the staff to regularly update course information and news.
