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Web-friendly PDFs

Supporting International Students Dynamic PDF Books

Many websites are dumping grounds for unwieldy documents that are unfit for web publishing. FitzBeck Creative can turn your word document into an easy to navigate, well-designed PDF that anyone can use. Large documents need this treatment to be truly accessible to web users.

Here is a great example of what’s possible. Education New Zealand has produced some guides to help tertiary institutions look after international students. The manuals contain everything they need to know about immigration regulations, NZQA guidelines
and cultural needs etc. FitzBeck designed three resources for the web that are easy to read on screen and rich with links to other websites and areas of information within the document. Each resource is also colour-coded for ease of navigation. The result is a
comprehensive set of web resources that take the user where they need to go at the click of a mouse and can be easily updated.

Easy to use – the Heathrose website pushes the 3 Cs

Heathrose Website

Collaboration, communication and consultation are ways of life for research specialists Heathrose so they wanted a website that reflected those values, engaged their customers and was easy to manage and develop.

We designed and built a site which gives Heathrose the freedom to change content quickly and easily, publish and distribute an e-newsletter and add social networking functionality in the future to promote a two-way dialogue with the customers they value. It’s a smart website for a smart bunch of people and we wish them all the best in their new business.

Visit the website here: www.heathrose.co.nz

Value-add for members

NZATEAP Website

Fitzbeck creates websites that don’t require an army of IT staff or outside contractors to run once they are built. This is vital for anyone running a small or medium-sized organisation.

Members of the New Zealand Association of Tertiary Education Accommodation Professionals are in the business of providing a great living and learning environment for tertiary students. NZATEAP wanted a website to improve professional development among members and increase networking.

We designed and built the NZATEAP website with a secure Members-only area packed with resources and networking tools. It’s easy for staff to update and use, and the site administrator can monitor what’s popular which helps him plan future content and features. It’s the way the web was meant to be.

Fitzbeck’s websites are also built in a modular fashion so clients can add functionality at little cost as their needs grow and change.

To view the website: www.nzateap.co.nz

Partners in productivity

NZ Council of Trade Unions Workplace Productivity Kit

Transforming the New Zealand economy requires a high wage, high skill, high value strategy. Taking action, the NZ Council of Trade Unions embarked on a joint exercise on productivity involving business and union representatives and the government. As a result, workers are becoming more knowledgeable and more involved in workplace practice.

To help the CTU support unions and promote discussion and new ideas around workplace productivity, we produced a set of vibrant and informative resources. These included a source book for unions and a toolkit of 14 information sheets for delegates and members.

To kick things off, we created a lively multimedia presentation for the launch of the resources and a slideshow of the launch event with quotes and photos of key people who attended to show their support for the initiative.

Welcome to FitzBeck

Our award-winning team of designers and writers is energetic, versatile and full of ideas. We create brands and logos, we plan campaigns, we write and design publications, we build interactive websites, we produce ads, we organise events. Whatever it takes.

So if you have a story to tell, let us help you bring it to life. Because that is what we do.

recent work

IT'S A WINNER!

Agriculture ITO Annual Report 2008

This year’s Agriculture ITO Annual Report just scooped the award for best annual reporting by a not-for-profit organisation at the 2009 Leadership Awards, which are held annually by the New Zealand Institute of Chartered Accountants.

FitzBeck Creative worked in partnership with Agriculture ITO to shape the material so that it all had a clear focus on performance and accountability. We also designed and produced it.

The ITO was praised at the awards for producing a “very readable” report and “going the extra mile to communicate their organisation’s performance”.

Annual reports are your organisation’s chance to demonstrate value to stakeholders. Don’t waste the opportunity. When you get it right, people notice.

A new website for UNESCO

UNESCO website

Costly maintenance, hard to update, static content and past its best. If any of this sounds familiar, you might be ready for a FitzBeck web refresh. The New Zealand National Commission for UNESCO was.

We used our web design expertise to create a clean, simple, professional website and extranet using an open-source content management system. We also worked with the UNESCO team to create information architecture that helps to advance their business goals – intuitive navigation that is future proof and allows for growth and change is as important as the mechanics of
any web build.

www.unesco.org.nz

Selling NZ Art to the World

ContemporaryMaoriArt.com

ContemporaryMaoriArt.com began life in 1973 as a sell-out exhibition of the work of Maori painter Darcy Nicholas. It has since grown into a dynamic online business and network, bringing together a world-class group of leading contemporary Maori, New Zealand and international artists.

FitzBeck has created a vibrant e-commerce site for Darcy and co-director James Nicholas, to showcase and market contemporary Maori paintings, sculpture, ceramic, jewellery and other works to the world, and connect with other global artists and dealers.

A Japanese version of the site is in the pipeline.

We wish them all the best in their online venture.

www.contemporarymaoriart.com

Celebrating New Zealand's First Nurse Practitioners

Nurse Practitioners

Nurse Practitioners, or NPs, are a well-established part of the health system in America and the UK, but the concept was only launched here recently. The role combines advanced nursing and clinical skills, and gives NPs the ability to prescribe medicine and diagnose patients. This publication celebrates a significant milestone – the first 50 NPs registered here in NZ.

A selection of NPs share their insights into the role. The aim is to encourage more nurses to study for the role. FitzBeck wrote and produced the publication and took many of the photos. Some accompanying case studies explore how health organisations can best develop the NP role.

Client feedback: The publication is superb - we are all delighted with the outcome.

Sustaining NZ's water wealth

Water Industry Training

With water assets now valued at around $40 billion, and climate change becoming an ever-increasing reality, sustainable water management has never been more important – for the health of our economy and for the health of all New Zealanders. We are glad to be playing our part in protecting this vital resource.

FitzBeck provides Water Industry Training with ongoing strategic communication support and writing/design services to help the organisation meet its communications objectives. This includes communications planning, writing and designing a new quarterly newsletter, which has been well received by the sector, writing trainee and employer profiles for the web and updating training material.

School History Commissioned

St Patrick's College

FitzBeck Creative has been commissioned to produce a substantial 125th Jubilee publication for St Patrick’s College, Wellington. Established by Irish Marist priests in 1885, St Pat’s is the oldest Catholic secondary school for boys in New Zealand.

Michael Fitzsimons, an old boy of the college, is editor of the publication. “The old school building beside the Basin Reserve was a landmark known to generations of Wellingtonians,” says Michael. “The proposed motorway route ran directly through the college site, so in 1979 the school had to move to Evans Bay. Ironically, the motorway has never made it as far as the old school site in the 30 or so years since.”