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.
Portfolio by Web Standards Conversion
Arthur's Court Motor Lodge
New Zealand's first 5 star, Enviro Gold, Christchurch City Motel
Tracey Allsopp
Christchurch Wedding Photographer
Catchlight re-built the Tracey Allsopp website using web standards and optimised it for search engines in the process. The site has since undergone a large amount of additions, website maintenance and further search engine ranking work to achieve to top Google position.
Smokefree Rockquest 2009
National High School Music Competition
Catchlight Design are proud to be involved with this high profile & high traffic website and iconic national event. Catchlight were employed in 2009 by Rockquest organisers to help in the re-design and act as a technical project leader for the co-ordination of the many teams involved that create the various aspects of the content rich website each year.
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.
Christchurch Community Arts Council
Local Government Arts Funding Body
Catchlight Design was employed by the Christchurch Community Arts Council to re-design the website and re-develop a more usable backend system for the CCAC staff administrators. The site features an organic database of local artists that is approved for publication by CCAC staff and is published in the Arts Participation Guide every 18 months. Also, attention was paid to making the site more user friendly and more attractive.
Salerno Motel Apartments
5 Star Motel Accommodation
Salerno commisioned Catchlight to build a fully content managed website, that allows them to keep customers up to date with events and specials. Catchlight also had great results with improving search engine rankings for the defined search terms. The site showcases the motel's unique architecture and luxury suites with photo galleries and slideshows.
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.
Bellagio Motel Suites
Christchurch 5 star accommodation
Catchlight were approached to design and build a new website for Bellagio that matched and enhanced the great branding work that had been created. The site has a Content Management System so Bellagio owners can update and maintain the site themselves.
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.
Roundhill
Ski Field, Lake Tekapo
Catchlight worked with Chill Marketing's team to integrate the exisiting Roundhill visual design into their CMS system. Catchlight created high quality cross-platform compatible templates in CSS and PHP to bring the Roundhill website to live.
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.
Arrow Beauty
Beauty Industry Suppliers & Wholesalers
Arrow Beauty commissed this website with the view to showcasing PDF product catalogues with the ability for those to be updated on the website in-house at Arrow. Maildrop our Email Newsletter Management system is also used on the site.
MRA Events
Events Management & PR Consultants
MRA are the organisers of some of New Zealand's biggest events and promotions as well as conducting PR and Marketing. The site features a clean structure, an integrated brand look and extensive portfolio pages, complete with modal image galleries for easy readability.
Missy G
RDU DJ Blog
The Missy G site is an example of how Catchlight used their CSS mastery to completely re-theme a standard Blogger template to fit the Girl School Radio Show style.
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.
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'.
G & L Bowron
Sheepskin Manufacturing and Exporter
Catchlight was employed by the manufacturing leader G & L Bowron Ltd, as a consultant to their in-house marketing team. Catchlight delivered web templates coded in Web Standard HTML and CSS for maximum speed and flexibility and to accommodate the unique and attractive style of Bowron's graphic designers.
Playtime Promotions
Christchurch Entertainment Agency
Catchlight worked with the principals and staff of Playtime Promotions to create a professional and brand focused redesign for this site. The large body of existing static content was placed in a content management system and training was provided. All artist listings and news are now managed in-house by Playtime Promotions staff.
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.
