The 2014 NetGuide Web Awards were held at the Hilton in Auckland last night. MC, Urzila Carlson from 7 Days entertained the crowd, showcasing how much web related humour she had learnt since MC'ing last year. 

Zeald won Best Web Developer, sponsored by Microsoft Azure, for the fourth year in a row.

"We would like to thank all our clients, supporters, and the wider Zeald team, who voted for us. Four years in a row, is not an easy feat, and we are stoked!"

- Evan Cooper, Zeald Marketing Manager.

A full list of winners are as follows:

Best Real Estate Site: realestate.co.nz
Best Employment Site: Seek.co.nz
Best Blog: WhaleOil.co.nz
Best News Site: NZHerald.co.nz
Best Lifestyle & Recreation Site: NZDating.com
Best Entertainment Site: TVNZ On Demand
Best Shopping Site: Grabone.co.nz
Best site for Gamers: MightyApe.co.nz
Best Online Forum: GeekZone.co.nz
Best Web Developer: Zeald
Best Online Fundraising Initiative: givealittle.co.nz
Best Travel Site: Airnewzealand.co.nz
Best Government Site: ird.govt.nz
Best Financial Site: asb.co.nz
Best Site for Small Business: Xero.com
Best Site for Students: Kidspot.co.nz
Best Site for Families: TVNZ On Demand
Best PC Manufacturer: Lenovo
Best ISP: Spark
Best Mobile Network: Spark
Best Mobile App: GrabOne
Best Homepage: facebook.co.nz
Overall Winner: GrabOne.co.nz

New Zealand website company, Zeald, received the Best Web Developer award for the third year in a row at the ESET NetGuide Web Awards 2013.

The awards were held last evening at the Hilton Hotel in Auckland, and were presented by popular comedian Urzila Carlson (7 Days), who kept the crowd entertained with her laugh-out-loud humour and quick wit.

Following on from their win in 2011 and 2012, the team at Zeald couldn’t be happier to be publicly voted the best web developer again for 2013.

“A HUGE thank you to everyone who got behind Zeald in the NetGuide awards! Last night we won the NetGuide Best Web Developer and we couldn't be happier. Thanks again!”

Now in its 15th ceremony, the NetGuide Web Awards involves 27 categories in which you can vote for New Zealand’s best website. This year NetGuide received over 290,000 public votes.

The 27 categories range from Best Social Networking Page to Best PC Manufacturer, catering for all and covering a wide spectrum of Kiwi talent online.

The winners in all categories were:

Overall: Grabone.co.nz
Best Real Estate Site: Trademe.co.nz
Best Financial Site: kiwibank.co.nz
Best Entertainment Site: tvnz.co.nz/video
Best Employment Site:Seek.co.nz
Best Blog: Whaleoil.co.nz
Best Mobile App: BNZ Mobile App
Best News Site: Stuff.co.nz
Best Site for Gamers: Mightyape.co.nz
Best Web Developers: Zeald
NZ's Favourite Social Networking Page: GayNZ
Best Online Forum: Geekzone.co.nz
Best Site for Small Business: Xero.com
Best Trading Site: Trademe.co.nz
Best Sports & Recreation Site: AllBlacks.com
Best ISP: Vodafone
Best Lifestyle site: NZDating.com
Best Shopping Site: Grabone.co.nz
Best Online Fundraising Initiative: givealittle.co.nz
Best Mobile Network: 2Degrees
Best PC Manufacturer: HP
Best Site for Students: studyit.org.nz
Best New Launch, Relaunch or Innovation: GoBook.co.nz
Best Site for Families: WhatNow.tv
Best Government Site: ird.govt.nz
Best Site for Travellers: Grabone.co.nz
Best Homepage: google.co.nz

Website heavyweight Zeald gets behind a weighty cause.

Being overweight often has a big impact on your general well-being and heart health. With one New Zealander dying from coronary heart disease every 90 minutes, and with the obesity epidemic hitting all ages of society, it is important to create awareness around the need to take a positive step in the right direction and encourage people to lose a kilo.

The "Million for a Million" campaign aims to shed one million kilograms off the total weight of our nation. Zeald was approached by fashion designer and entrepreneur Annah Stretton, who is heading the campaign, to lend a hand to lighten the nation and promote a healthy lifestyle. The inspiration for the charitable project surfaced after Annah's recent Dry July 30-day hiatus from alcohol - a stellar effort that saw her contribute to the $500,000 raised for Northern Regional Cancer and Blood Service at Auckland City Hospital.

Heart Foundation Medical Director, Norman Sharpe commends Annah on her enthusiasm to get right to the heart of the nation’s increasing ill-health and galvanise New Zealanders into action.

“Despite medical advances, heart disease continues to be the single biggest killer of our men and women because of complex changes in the way New Zealanders live, work, eat and exercise,” says Professor Sharpe. “The journey towards heart health is about making small but achievable lifestyle changes – something that I’m certain this campaign can help inspire. We’re a charity and need public support more than ever. We’re very grateful for Annah for leading this initiative and being such a positive champion for change.”

Zeald designed and developed the Million for a Million website to include social media integration where participants share their stories of their health journey. These stories appear in the ‘Winners Gallery’ to encourage others to make a difference to their own health and the health of the nation.

Million for a Million is supported by Zeald, Annah Stretton, Westpac, Mediaworks, Pak N’ Save, New World, The Warehouse and the Heart Foundation who are excited to be encouraging New Zealanders and their own staff to think about their health and lose a kilo for the cause.

If you would like to join in the fight against fat, simply register and donate a dollar here. All proceeds will go towards the New Zealand Heart Foundation.

Zeald were awarded first place in the 2012 ESET NetGuide Web Awards for the Best Web Developer category sponsored by openhost.

The awards were presented last night in good spirit, courtesy of MC comedian Steve Wrigley, at the Hilton Hotel in Auckland.

Zeald’s Marketing Manager, Evan Cooper, accepted the award on behalf of the Zeald team. “We are really happy and grateful to win the Best Web Developer award for two years in a row. We strive to help small and medium sized businesses realise their online potential so receiving this kind of public accolade is the best kind of feedback.”

Winners from other categories included: google.co.nz, 2degrees, kiwibank.co.nz, mightyape.co.nz, allblacks.com, youtube.co.nz, stuff.co.nz, seek.co.nz and trademe.co.nz.

After weeks of public voting, Netguide presented 27 of their infamous yellow cube trophies to the lucky recipients at last night's ceremony. “With over 225,000 votes cast this year, the awards have been a huge success again” said NetGuide publisher Sean Mitchell.

Zeald wish to thank all their supporters and those who voted for them in the 2012 ESET NetGuide Web Awards.

Get your website talking to your software.

Is your website having problems integrating with your accounting software? Are you always manually keeping track of sales from auction websites? There is a better way.

Here at Zeald we think that doing business online should make things easier, but if your website isn't communicating with your sales, marketing and accounting software then things may seem a lot harder than they should be.

Zeald websites have always been able to connect to most third-party business applications, but it was a time consuming process that was a little complicated and a therefore a little on the expensive side. But now integration is much simpler through your Zeald website, making it easier for you to manage your business.

How do we do it? Through our integration partners Zeald websites can seamlessly integrate with the most popular platforms from CRM, eCommerce, Invoicing, Email Marketing, Event Management, Project and Team Management and Accounting simplifying and optimising business processes.

This means that all your integrations, data migrations, synchronisations and data de-duplication between different software platforms are taken care of by one of our integration partners through your Zeald website.

For example, if you use accounting software, such as Xero or MYOB, a Zeald website can integrate seamlessly with the software to manage all aspects of your business from your Zeald eCommerce website transactions to auction websites like eBay and TradeMe to CRM systems like HighRise or BatchBook and many more.

Some of the information that will integrate with your accounting software:

• Contacts - Full contact management including merging and synchronisation is supported.
• Invoices (Accounts Receivable and Accounts Payables) - Can be created automatically from eCommerce orders, CRM deals or invoicing systems.
• Invoice Payments - Can be automatically mapped to different bank/clearing accounts.
• Tax Rates - All the tax rates are imported from your accounting software to allow easy application of taxes on incoming invoices.
• Chart of Accounts - Are retrieved and can be used for generating invoices and map line items to the correct accounts.
• Bank Accounts - Are used to match cleared payments for simplified bank reconciliation.
• Inventory Items - Are retrieved and can be used to map and generate sales by matching them to your sold products on eCommerce platforms. New inventory items can also be created on the fly if new products are detected in other systems.

Save yourself time and money by integrating your Zeald website with your software. The applications we can connect to are updated all the time. Give Zeald a call on 0508 932 530 to see how we can help you integrate with your third-party software.

Zeald has been voted Best Web Developer in the 2011 NetGuide Web Awards.

The awards were presented last night at the Hilton Hotel in Auckland.

Zeald Sales and Marketing Director Brent Kelly received the award on behalf of the team at Zeald and said that he was “stoked to win the award, especially when it's the first year Zeald has been in the awards”.

Other winners on the night included the likes of Google, TradeMe, The All Blacks, BNZ, Stuff.co.nz and Facebook, "so it's encouraging to know that Zeald is seen in such high regard and as the best choice for website development in New Zealand" Brent said.

"Zeald wants to help New Zealand businesses to not only get a website, but to succeed in the online space, so it's nice to know that it's the voting public of New Zealand that picked us as the best".

Techday publisher Sean Mitchell said there was more than 270,000 votes cast in this year's awards.