<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8" ?><rss version="2.0"><channel><title>Phizz Portfolio</title><link>http://www.phizz.biz</link><description>Phizz is a Digital Media Studio based in Belfast, Northern Ireland. We pioneer the innovative use of modern technology to deliver powerful, creative and user-friendly solutions across a wide range of media.</description><ttl>1440</ttl><item><title>RampRage.tv</title><link>http://www.phizz.biz/project/55</link><description>Project description coming soon.</description><category>Web Development</category></item><item><title>Braden Dental Care</title><link>http://www.phizz.biz/project/57</link><description>Project description coming soon.</description><category>Web Development</category></item><item><title>Ulster Way</title><link>http://www.phizz.biz/project/54</link><description>Project description coming soon.</description><category>Web Development</category></item><item><title>Disabled Ramblers NI</title><link>http://www.phizz.biz/project/56</link><description>Project description coming soon.</description><category>Web Development</category></item><item><title>Outdoor NI</title><link>http://www.phizz.biz/project/7</link><description>Outdoor NI is the one stop shop for all information relating to outdoor activities in Northern Ireland, managed by the Countryside Access and Activities Network. It contains a wealth of data presented in creative and innovative formats aimed at consumers of all ages and skills. In addition to the website itself, Phizz created a sophisticated multi-user content management area, in which each activity provider featured on the website can log in and add to or update their information.</description><category>Web Development</category></item><item><title>Sosa Garden Villa</title><link>http://www.phizz.biz/project/49</link><description>Sosa Garden Villa is a luxury villa available for holiday accommodation on the Garden Route in South Africa. They required a website with a design that would compliment the exquisite architecture of the villa itself, and make prominent use of the villa branding. It also needed to be powered by a robust and easy to use availability and booking engine. Phizz were identified as the company with the necessary design and development skills to make it happen, and we did not disappoint.</description><category>Web Development</category></item><item><title>Countryside Access and Activities Network</title><link>http://www.phizz.biz/project/50</link><description>The Countryside Access and Activities Network identify themselves as an umbrella organisation which brings together all groups and bodies that have an interest in, or involvement in outdoor recreation in Northern Ireland. Connected to the Northern Ireland Tourist Board, they are responsible for promoting and enabling outdoor activities. After creating a series of successful activity specific websites for CAAN, Phizz were asked to produce their own corporate website. It was to employ their newly designed identity and provide several areas of content managed information. The end result has received great feedback.</description><category>Web Development</category></item><item><title>Target Dry</title><link>http://www.phizz.biz/project/53</link><description>Target Dry is an international outdoor clothing company specialising in waterproof jackets and trousers. In an industry with big brand competition, they required a website which would stand out, optimally present their evolving product portfolio and provide a quality experience to potential stockists and customers. Phizz created a highly graphical website for Target Dry, with a robust content management system allowing them to keep all content up to date.</description><category>Web Development</category></item><item><title>Scott Webster Photography</title><link>http://www.phizz.biz/project/51</link><description>Scott Webster is an up and coming professional photographer currently based in Swansea, South Wales. To help establish his reputation, he required a web presence which would stand out from the crowd. A striking Flash website was the obvious choice of direction. To try and counter the limitation set by image galleries which force a particular viewing order, Phizz designed an innovative full screen interface in which images are loaded randomly on to an infinitely pannable wall. The end result works well, and is fully controllable by Scott via a flexible content management system.</description><category>Flash Development</category></item><item><title>Skeleton South Africa</title><link>http://www.phizz.biz/project/52</link><description>The South African Skeleton Bobsleigh team required a new identity to re-establish their status in the sport and help seek ongoing sponsorship deals. It needed to be modern, active, recognisable and convey the aspects of both the sport and the country. Phizz used the South African flag as the basis for a simple graphic which resembles both a bobsleigh track and the letter S. Coupled with a mixture of sans and serif typefaces for the wording, the end result has been very positively accepted.</description><category>Identity</category></item><item><title>Cycle NI</title><link>http://www.phizz.biz/project/48</link><description>Continuing a successful streak of websites produced for the Northern Ireland Outdoor Activity industry, Phizz were commissioned by the Countryside Access and Activities Network to create a brand new site dedicated to cycling in the country. Based on walkni.com, cycleni.com combines a fresh modern design with an advanced dynamic content model, fully controlled through a content management system. It takes the interactive mapping features found in walkni.com to the next level, and is highly optimised for both user experience and search engine crawlers.</description><category>Web Development</category></item><item><title>Activity Brochures NI</title><link>http://www.phizz.biz/project/47</link><description>Activity Brochures NI is a one stop shop for downloading and ordering activity brochures from the Countryside Access and Activities Network in Northern Ireland. It is fully integrated with the existing network of CAAN websites created by Phizz, and provides an innovative client-script driven mechanism for choosing and ordering brochures.</description><category>Web Development</category></item><item><title>Origin Vision for Mervyn Stewart Alfa Romeo</title><link>http://www.phizz.biz/project/46</link><description>Origin Vision is an interactive touch screen multimedia application which uses internet connectivity to load, serve and collect various types of data and media. Mervyn Stewart wanted such a system at their Alfa Romeo dealership in Belfast to showcase the Alfa Romeo range of automobiles along with their service and package offerings. Phizz designed and created the system front-end interface and connectivity in Flash.</description><category>Flash Development</category></item><item><title>Morzine Ski Chalets</title><link>http://www.phizz.biz/project/4</link><description>Morzine Ski Chalets is a property management company  specialising in year wide rentals of chalets and apartments in the French resort of Morzine. Phizz developed a brand new website for Morzine Ski Chalets to help them to fully manage, take bookings for and provide information about their property portfolio. The goal was to reflect the luxurious nature of the properties in the website design and make it as simple as possible for visitors to find the information they need.</description><category>Web Development</category></item><item><title>North Sperrins Heritage Trail</title><link>http://www.phizz.biz/project/44</link><description>The North Sperrins Heritage Trail is a driving trail in the Sperrins mountain range in Northern Ireland which focuses on and offers access to several sites of historical importance. To accompany the printed materials and interpretation panels produced for the launch of the trail, a dynamic content managed website with advanced interactive mapping features was required. Phizz were selected for the job when the trail organisers saw our successful mapping development on the Walk NI and Canoe NI websites.</description><category>Web Development</category></item><item><title>Cash For Cars NI</title><link>http://www.phizz.biz/project/45</link><description>Cash For Cars NI is a used car buyer based in Northern Ireland which promises to buy your car whatever the make, age, model or condition. Simply fill in the online form, submit a photo, and you will be contacted within 24 hours with a quote. Phizz designed and created the Cash For Cars NI website, identity and back-end communication system.</description><category>Web Development</category></item><item><title>Roar</title><link>http://www.phizz.biz/project/35</link><description>Roar is a discount scheme which can be used to save money when bringing children to several attractions and locations around Northern Ireland. Phizz refreshed their website for them, upgrading the existing design to make it more attractive, and allowing customers to purchase the card online, browse the applicable locations, play games and more.</description><category>Web Development</category></item><item><title>Learning Space</title><link>http://www.phizz.biz/project/5</link><description>Learning Space is a shop which sells educational toys, games, books and resources to both educational institutions and the public. In addition to their Belfast city centre based premises, Learning Space wanted a quality and effective website. Unhappy with the first attempt by another company, they approached Phizz to redevelop it, which involved adding an e-commerce engine along with other missing elements, overhauling the content management system, freshening up the design, and introducing Flash elements where appropriate.</description><category>Web Development</category></item><item><title>APT Licensing Brochure</title><link>http://www.phizz.biz/project/28</link><description>APT is an audio technology company offering acclaimed audio algorithms and professional broadcast hardware products. To help market the audio algorithms side of their business, they contracted Phizz to produce a full colour 16 page brochure. Phizz used striking imagery with a modern, fresh layout and design to achieve a successful end result.</description><category>Print Design</category></item><item><title>Leave No Trace Ireland</title><link>http://www.phizz.biz/project/31</link><description>Leave No Trace is an outdoor ethics programme designed to promote and inspire responsible outdoor recreation. Phizz created the Leave No Trace Ireland website for the Countryside Access and Activities Network. It has a unique look and feel inspired by outdoor ethics, and all content is controlled via a content management system.</description><category>Web Development</category></item><item><title>APT Identity</title><link>http://www.phizz.biz/project/29</link><description>APT is an audio technology company offering acclaimed audio algorithms and professional broadcast hardware products. As part of a new marketing strategy, they required a fresh modern identity for their core business, as well as related sub-identities for their various main service and product offerings. Phizz designed and created the entire range, along with the updated company stationery and trade show banners.</description><category>Identity</category></item><item><title>Make Interactive Kitchen Designer</title><link>http://www.phizz.biz/project/38</link><description>Make are a kitchen designer and retailer based in Northern Ireland. Phizz were subcontracted to design and create an interactive application to be included on the new Make website which would allow a customer to intuitively draw and annotate the layout of their kitchen, and submit it to the Make design teams. Phizz also created the server-side component which received the drawings, processed them, and emailed them to the relevant contact.</description><category>Flash Development</category></item><item><title>Origin Vision for Carphone Warehouse</title><link>http://www.phizz.biz/project/18</link><description>Origin Vision is an interactive touch screen multimedia application which uses internet connectivity to load, serve and collect various types of data and media. The Carphone Warehouse wanted such a system at their flagship retail store on Oxford Street, London to showcase their main product and service offerings. Phizz designed and created the system front-end interface and connectivity in Flash, including an innovative 3D rotating main menu.</description><category>Flash Development</category></item><item><title>Ecotrails</title><link>http://www.phizz.biz/project/6</link><description>Ecotrails are environmental orienteering trails located around Northern Ireland and supported by freely available maps and resources. Phizz produced a comprehensive Flash website to showcase and offer downloadable resources for the various Ecotrails in an enjoyable and effective style suitable for both experienced and inexperienced orienteerers. Phizz also produced off-line versions of some of the ecotrails on CD.</description><category>Flash Development</category></item><item><title>Origin Vision for Bowman Windows</title><link>http://www.phizz.biz/project/20</link><description>Origin Vision is an interactive touch screen multimedia application which uses internet connectivity to load, serve and collect various types of data and media. Bowman Windows, manufacturers of quality PVC and aluminum window frames and windows, required such a system for use at trade events to showcase their products and portfolio. Phizz designed and created their system front-end interface and connectivity in Flash, including a customisable Ken Burns effect showreel screensaver.</description><category>Flash Development</category></item><item><title>Canoe NI</title><link>http://www.phizz.biz/project/30</link><description>Canoe NI is the definitive guide to all varieties of canoeing in Northern Ireland, managed by the Countryside Access and Activities Network. After completing the highly successful Walk NI and Outdoor NI websites, Phizz were commissioned to continue the process with Canoe NI. Canoe NI required a wealth of information, striking photography, and advanced interactive mapping features to be successfully fused together as an accessible and easy to use website. We innovated, we created, and we delivered.</description><category>Web Development</category></item><item><title>Causeway Coast and Glens Heritage Trust</title><link>http://www.phizz.biz/project/3</link><description>The Causeway Coast and Glens Heritage Trust (CCGHT) is a body which promotes environmental management and sustainable tourism in the Causeway Coast and Glens area of Northern Ireland. Phizz redeveloped their website with a modern refreshing design and an advanced content management system providing complete control over every page of the website in multiple languages. Phizz also produced interactive Flash maps of the regions CCGHT look after.</description><category>Web Development</category></item><item><title>VanRath IT</title><link>http://www.phizz.biz/project/2</link><description>Based in Belfast, VanRath is one of Northern Ireland's most successful professional recruitment agencies. Recognising the large and unique IT recruitment market, they approached Phizz to produce a dedicated website to service it. The creation of VanRath IT involved a lot more than just a standard job listing website. Phizz produced custom cutting edge graphics and visuals, advanced job search features, a unique "VanRath Community" area, candidate log-in area, full content management and more. It was a large undertaking and has been a success for VanRath.</description><category>Web Development</category></item><item><title>APT Product Brochure</title><link>http://www.phizz.biz/project/27</link><description>APT is an audio technology company offering acclaimed audio algorithms and professional broadcast hardware products. To help market the audio hardware side of their business, they contracted Phizz to produce a full colour detailed 16 page brochure in both A4 and Letter sizes. A lot of information and imagery had to be included in a clear and concise manner whilst retaining a highly aesthetic look and feel. Phizz were able to deliver on all requirements.</description><category>Print Design</category></item><item><title>Origin Vision for Remax</title><link>http://www.phizz.biz/project/19</link><description>Origin Vision is an interactive touch screen multimedia application which uses internet connectivity to load, serve and collect various types of data and media. Remax, acclaimed real estate agents with offices all around the globe, wanted such a system for use in their Stranmillis, Belfast office to allow prospective customers to browse and register their interest in local properties for sale and rent. Their setup was particularly unique in that it was to be useable through their office window by customers on the footpath, even after office hours. Phizz designed and created the system front-end interface and connectivity in Flash.</description><category>Flash Development</category></item><item><title>Lift Off</title><link>http://www.phizz.biz/project/26</link><description>Lift Off is a human rights education initiative for primary schools in Northern Ireland and the Republic of Ireland. An important requirement in the establishment of Lift Off was the production of a sophisticated website which would appeal to both teachers and students. Its features were to include teacher articles, student work and downloadable resources. For this reason, the website required content management and content submission systems that could be very easily used by all. Phizz were recommended for the job, and we didn't disappoint.</description><category>Web Development</category></item><item><title>Greywood Associates</title><link>http://www.phizz.biz/project/33</link><description>Greywood Associates are an IT recruitment agency based in Armagh, Northern Ireland. As a start-up business, they approached Phizz to create an identity and website for them on a tight budget. Phizz were able to help out, providing them with a unique web presence with a professional look and feel, which dynamically connected to their jobserve.com account for search and retrieval of available positions.</description><category>Web Development</category></item><item><title>Greywood Associates Identity</title><link>http://www.phizz.biz/project/34</link><description>Greywood Associates are an IT recruitment agency based in Armagh, Northern Ireland. As a start-up business, they approached Phizz to create an identity and website for them on a tight budget. The finished identity was the result of a fast but extensive process of design, review and evolution with the client.</description><category>Identity</category></item><item><title>CIMA Omega</title><link>http://www.phizz.biz/project/8</link><description>CIMA Omega is a training development organisation built upon the principles of accountability and measurability of training within the workplace. They contacted Phizz when they were just starting up in business, as they needed a professional high quality website produced on a tight budget. Phizz were able to deliver beyond expectations.</description><category>Web Development</category></item><item><title>Belfast Urban Sports</title><link>http://www.phizz.biz/project/32</link><description>Belfast Urban Sports (BUS) is an organisation promoting safe and accessible urban sports in Belfast, Northern Ireland. To compliment the work they do, they needed a professional online presence which would appeal to both their target audience and sponsors, and be able to be easily updated as their work progressed. Phizz designed and created a full Flash animated website and content management system for BUS to help achieve this goal.</description><category>Flash Development</category></item><item><title>Origin Vision for Eric Cairns</title><link>http://www.phizz.biz/project/17</link><description>Origin Vision is an interactive touch screen multimedia application which uses internet connectivity to load, serve and collect various types of data and media. Eric Cairns, one of Northern Ireland's top Estate Agents, wanted such a system for use in their Holywood office to allow prospective customers to browse and register their interest in local properties for sale and rent. Phizz designed and created the system front-end interface and connectivity in Flash.</description><category>Flash Development</category></item><item><title>Walk NI</title><link>http://www.phizz.biz/project/1</link><description>[b]WINNER: "Best Website", CIPR NEW PRide Excellence Awards, November 2007&#x0D;
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Walk NI is pitched as "the definitive guide to walking in Northern Ireland" and in a short space of time from its initial launch it became exactly that - a highly successful and innovative website which tens of thousands of visitors use to get involved in walking the beautiful landscapes of Northern Ireland. Phizz were commissioned by the Countryside Access and Activities Network for its development as we were the only company able to demonstrate the necessary skills required for the advanced content management and interactive mapping features.</description><category>Web Development</category></item><item><title>Food for Life Educational Games</title><link>http://www.phizz.biz/project/25</link><description>Phizz were contracted to create five web based games aimed at informing users about food safety, food groups, and healthy eating. Examples of the games required included choosing a balanced breakfast, calculating sugar, packing a fridge correctly, learning about vegetarians, etc. The games were produced using Flash.</description><category>Flash Development</category></item><item><title>Countryside Access and Activities Network Presentation</title><link>http://www.phizz.biz/project/16</link><description>The Northern Ireland Countryside Access and Activities Network (CAAN) is an umbrella organisation which brings together all groups and bodies that have an interest in, or involvement in countryside recreation in Northern Ireland. CAAN were in need of a slick multi-purpose presentation outlining their ongoing work and plans, which could be used by a presenter while giving a talk, or played on its own at trade show booth displays. Phizz created a customisable Flash presentation for them which has been very effective and well received.</description><category>Flash Development</category></item><item><title>Little Green Angels</title><link>http://www.phizz.biz/project/9</link><description>Little Green Angels is an online shop specialising in organic, eco-friendly and natural products for babies, children and new mothers. Phizz produced an e-commerce website and content management system for them, which included features such as wish list creation, promotional code handling, product feature based pricing, advert rotation and more. Phizz are also in change of running their Search Engine Optimisation and Google AdWord campaigns.</description><category>Web Development</category></item><item><title>Little Green Angels Identity</title><link>http://www.phizz.biz/project/36</link><description>Little Green Angels is an online shop specialising in organic, eco-friendly and natural products for babies, children and new mothers. Alongside the development of the Little Green Angels e-commerce website, Phizz designed and created their identity.</description><category>Identity</category></item><item><title>Literacy and Language Educational Games</title><link>http://www.phizz.biz/project/24</link><description>Phizz were contracted to create a dozen web based games aimed at helping to develop basic literacy and language skills. Examples of the types of games required included hangman, matching pairs, catching falling items, wordsearch, sequence ordering, etc. The games were produced using Flash, and had to be customisable via a configuration file to allow for multiple variations of each.</description><category>Flash Development</category></item><item><title>Rocket Dog Navigation</title><link>http://www.phizz.biz/project/21</link><description>Rocket Dog is an internationally recognized footwear company who create funky shoes aimed at young females. Phizz was subcontracted to design and develop a Flash based navigation system for Rocket Dog's new UK website. It had to be highly aesthetic, user-friendly, fun, quirky, and be available in two different seasonal variations. They were very happy with what Phizz produced. Though the website itself has evolved since, our navigation system has been retained.</description><category>Flash Development</category></item><item><title>VanRath</title><link>http://www.phizz.biz/project/10</link><description>Based in Belfast, VanRath is one of Northern Ireland's most successful professional recruitment agencies. They first had a basic presence on the internet in the early 2000s, but soon out-grew it, and required a much more modern and professional looking website with a unique drill-down approach to job search and a comprehensive back-end content management system. After having produced some basic marketing materials for VanRath, Phizz were commisioned to continue the success and develop the website.</description><category>Web Development</category></item><item><title>VanRath Reception Showreel</title><link>http://www.phizz.biz/project/23</link><description>VanRath is one of Northern Ireland's most successful professional recruitment agencies. As part of their Belfast office remodeling, they wanted a large plasma screen in the reception waiting area playing a loop DVD video presentation which showcased their services and achievements. It had to be professional, slick and enticing. Phizz were asked to do the job. Although it was a change from our usual service offerings, we had no problem producing the video, complete with impressive visuals and captivating 3D effects.</description><category>Flash Development</category></item><item><title>Vinyl Inc Clothing</title><link>http://www.phizz.biz/project/14</link><description>Vinyl Inc is a unique online retro t-shirt store which prints monotone images onto t-shirts using materials extracted from recycled vinyl records. Phizz created an e-commerce website for Vinyl Inc which showcases all their designs and allows customers to create and order their own t-shirt.</description><category>Web Development</category></item><item><title>Freeflow Magazine</title><link>http://www.phizz.biz/project/11</link><description>Freeflow Magazine, while it was in publication, was pitched as "Ireland's Soul of Extreme Sports". It was aimed at adrenaline pumped extreme sports enthusiasts around Ireland, and required a website suited to that purpose. They wanted a website fully created in Flash, with strong use of animations, transitions and high quality graphics. Phizz provided exactly that. It was one of our earlier projects, but still looks fresh today.</description><category>Flash Development</category></item><item><title>Freeflow Website Section Identities</title><link>http://www.phizz.biz/project/42</link><description>Freeflow Magazine, while it was in publication, was pitched as "Ireland's Soul of Extreme Sports". It was aimed at adrenaline pumped extreme sports enthusiasts around Ireland. Phizz created a full Flash website for Freeflow Magazine, each section of which was branded with a large striking 3D graphic that heavily added to the site's unique aesthetic appeal. Phizz designed, modelled and rendered each graphic from scratch.</description><category>Identity</category></item><item><title>Thesaurus Software</title><link>http://www.phizz.biz/project/15</link><description>Thesaurus Software are a leading provider of payroll and business management software solutions in Ireland and the UK. As the marketplace became more competitive, they required an updated identity for both their company and product lines, as well as new Ireland and UK websites. Phizz were commisioned to produce the lot. Also created by Phizz alongside the website was a web based bug tracker system to aid in team communication and quality assurance of ongoing software development.</description><category>Web Development</category></item><item><title>Thesaurus Software Product Identities</title><link>http://www.phizz.biz/project/39</link><description>Thesaurus Software are a leading provider of payroll and business management software solutions in Ireland and the UK. They develop several software products, each of which is a unique and complete offering on its own, but together they provide a full business finance management solution. Parallel to this idea, Thesaurus wanted to create a set of identities for the products which would all share a common look and feel, but each be unique in it's own way. Phizz designed and created the required identities.</description><category>Identity</category></item><item><title>Phizz Flash Experiments</title><link>http://www.phizz.biz/project/43</link><description>Phizz produced a series of experimental interactive Flash applications along with our first website. The goal was to simulate various natural forces such as gravity, collisions, elastic motion, etc., as well as to experiment with mouse cursor proximity reactions. They were both fun and educational to create.</description><category>Flash Development</category></item><item><title>Phizz Version 1.0</title><link>http://www.phizz.biz/project/12</link><description>The first Phizz website was created back in 2004 when we started our business. Inspired by the internationally acclaimed design agencies of the time, it was created entirely in Flash, making strong use of 3D and video effects to achieve a unique user experience. It was very popular and well received, although we changed to the current design in 2008 because we wanted something which was simpler and quicker to maintain and update, and more search engine friendly.</description><category>Flash Development</category></item><item><title>The Big Pic</title><link>http://www.phizz.biz/project/22</link><description>The Big Pic is a campaign created to teach children about real world issues such a discrimination, poverty, human rights, and others. One campaign requirement was the production of a large interactive website full of games and activities to educate children about these issues. Phizz were brought in at the very beginning to create a small handful of activities, and then twice more over the next several years to create more. Looking at the website, it is apparent which activities were created at the very start (they look very dated), although a lot of what we produced is still acceptable, particularly the 3D rendered illustrations of the various portal "rooms".</description><category>Flash Development</category></item></channel></rss>