Shadowfax Media

WhichPLM?

leigh — Fri, 10 Oct 2008 02:40:42 GMT

Client:

WhichPLM? Independent advisors for Product Lifecycle Management solutions to the apparel and retail industry.

Provided:

Brand Indentity
Web Design
Content Management

Visit: www.whichplm.com

Must Have Pads

Jo Hughes — Wed, 20 Aug 2008 18:52:32 GMT

Client:

West Country based online magazine / blog covering the property market

Provided:

Brand Indentity
Web Design
Content Management

Visit: www.musthavepads.com

Tradwin

Jo Hughes — Wed, 20 Aug 2008 18:36:23 GMT

Client:

Leading supplier of plumbing and heating products to Trade and DIY customers.

Provided:

Brand Indentity
Web Design
Content Management

Visit: www.tradwin.com

PDP Web PLM

Jo Hughes — Sat, 14 Jun 2008 01:40:15 GMT

Above: This one has the web called PLM and the spider represents reporting. It has the ability to "trawl" the web, accessing every element to produce reports. (my personal favourite)

Above: This one has all the above processes, but the spider in the middle represents PLM, the constructor of the web that holds everything together.

Above: Just in case he hated the spider.

When I’m not wearing my creative hat and mincing around cyberspace, my alter-ego is donning a suit and talking sense for the PDP Limited, a consultancy specialising in apparel PLM.

PDP (or for those being pedantic, The Product Development Partnership Limited), is finding it’s feet and shedding it’s baby-grow, with our head hauncho, Mark Harrop, having been invited to be a guest speaker for Apparel Magazine’s Apparel webCONNECTIONseries.

So, to cut a long story short, Mark asked me to lend a helping hand with the prep and be a bit creative on producing some presentation slides. His exact words were “I need a spider diagram to highlight the process area’s PLM covers”.

Now I’m not typically one to take things literally but sometimes a “by gum, that’s too obvious” moment just hits. I suddenly thought, hang on, the whole thing (PLM) is very much like a web. All the combined elements of the process and the participating 3rd parties are all inter-linked, or held together, by PLM just like a spiders web would hold all it catches.

So off I trotted and did 3 variations of a PPT slide for Mark’s big day…..

In each one of the examples above, the apparel/retail processes form "never ending" circles to represent the ongoing nature of the business, tighter circles representing the goal of reducing time to market. Then all the "joining the dots of the supply chain" elements, connecting trim suppliers, mills, test labs etc surround the process circles, all encompassed and tracked with workflow.

Then obviously of course, whichever variation, there is also then deliberate pun of "the Web", i.e. PLM is the next generation from PDM because of the Web (internet)

Toolbox

leigh — Tue, 10 Jun 2008 00:33:19 GMT

Chyrp

Chyrp is a blogging engine designed to be very lightweight while retaining functionality. It is driven by PHP and MySQL (with some AJAX thrown in), and has a “pimpin” theme and module engine, so you can personalize it however you want.

Go Media Arsenal

Throughout the years, Go Media have developed a large library of design elements such as vector art, textures, fonts, brushes, etc. They've called it their “arsenal” of design

SimplePie

SimplePie is a very fast and easy-to-use class, written in PHP, that puts the ‘simple’ back into ‘really simple syndication’.

Leigeber - Web Development Blog

This web development blog features fresh articles on JavaScript, AJAX, CSS, XHTML, PHP, Photoshop and more.

Pixie

Pixie is an easy-to-use, fast and tiny utility designed especially to fit the needs of Webmasters and Designers. Its a colour picker that includes a mouse tracker. Run it, simply point to a colour and it will tell you the hex, RGB, HTML, CMYK and HSV values of that colour. You can then use these values to reproduce the selected colour in your favorite programs. Pixie will also show the current x y position of your mouse pointer. Its the only tool you'll need for working with colours.

kuler

kuler from Adobe Labs. Quickly create harmonious color themes online. Explore, create and share color themes.

Basecamp

Basecamp takes a fresh, novel approach to project collaboration. Projects don't fail from a lack of charts, graphs, stats, or reports, they fail from a lack of clear communication. Basecamp solves this problem by providing tools tailored to improve the communication between people working together on a project.

jeroenwijering.com

JW FLV Media Player and JW FLV Media Player

Magento

Magento is a new professional open-source eCommerce solution offering unprecedented flexibility and control.

Tradingeye

Tradingeye is a web standards compliant shopping cart & CMS built from the ground up with web accessibility and SEO in mind.

ExpressionEngine

ExpressionEngine is a flexible, feature-rich content management system that empowers thousands of individuals, organizations, and companies around the world to easily manage their website.

WebShot

Website and webpage screenshot thumbnailing

stock.xchng

The leading free stock photography site

ScribeFire

ScribeFire is an extension for the Mozilla Firefox Web Browser that integrates with your browser to let you easily post to your blog: you can drag and drop formatted text from pages you are browsing, take notes, and post to your blog.

Txp Resources

A directory of plugins, tutorials, and other resources for and by the Textpattern Community

TextBook

Textpattern

A flexible, elegant and easy-to-use content management system. Textpattern is both free and open source.

Textpattern Plugins

leigh — Tue, 10 Jun 2008 00:20:44 GMT

asy_sitemap

Generates a gz-compressed Google-Sitemap.

hak_tinymce

This plugin adds a TinyMCE based WYSIWYG editor to Textpattern.

wet_thumbfilter

wet_thumbfilter displays the thumbnails for articles’ images meeting various filter criteria with an optional link to the articles.

asy_jpcache

Fast Full Page Caching for Textpattern

SimplePie Plugin for Textpattern

This plugin adds a new tag to Textpattern that allows you to display feeds using SimplePie

ob1_title

This plugin by Henrik Jönsson is for control of and flexible utilization of document titles

asv_tumblelog

Amits plugin brings Tumblr style tumblelog fun to Textpattern ....

LateMag Artwork

leigh — Sun, 25 May 2008 23:45:32 GMT

Needing some banner art for our new website LateMag, I got to work letting my imagination run riot in a noir fairyland. Unfortunately I got a little carried away and the final result (above) completely ignored the fact we needed some room for menu tabs, but hey, I'm rather partial to my flying teapot and decrepit, cherry munching humpty.

Making it into the final banner were the signpost and the marionettes, but rather than let the rest go to waste it gets to live here, digitally immortalised on the Shadowfax blog.

Image designed in Illustrator & Photoshop

Visit to LateMag to see the artwork as a header banner

Komplete Project Management

Jo Hughes — Fri, 16 May 2008 17:31:18 GMT

Client:

Manchetser based project management compnay specialising in in office interior fit outs and industrial refurbishment.

Provided:

Web Design
Content Management

Visit: www.kompleteprojects.co.uk

Bio

fiona wilson — Wed, 14 May 2008 23:01:48 GMT

A country girl - Gloucestershire born and raised - in the fields is where I spent most of my days…it’s several years later and, ever the country girl at heart, I’ve an enduring love for greener pastures, though these days I’m all grown up and am the ubiquitous urban-dweller with a passion for city living. I spy with my cultural eye and thrive on all that the bleeding edge of modern living has to offer. When I’m not writing for fun or for the mighty dollar, I love to make music, hang out in bars or indulge my love for a more rural slice of life. Ever the self-starter, I relocated to Manchester three and a half years ago post-uni to team-up with my web designer friend on a project to get my name out there and bypass the pitfall that is “running.” We’ve since built several highly successful websites, including Late Film, Late Mag, Breathe Modern and my pet-project, Beyond Kewl, where I wrote in my spare time to indulge my love for cheeky one-liners and titillating copy. I feel now’s the time to further my career.

C.V.

fiona wilson — Wed, 14 May 2008 23:01:36 GMT

Innovative and creative copywriter producing talented copy to a high standard. Strong self-starter who works with flexibility and adaptability, creating punchy prose to increase readership and promote products.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Editor and Lead Writer                                                                                   2004 - present

•   Managed popular online film magazine, Late Film, which involved keeping a constant eye on stories as they broke to aggregate from a wide range of sources. Produced regular, high-quality content (including news and reviews) to meet deadlines as well as proof-reading and editing work by a team. Liaise with PR firms, movie distributors, film director’s and advertising companies and interact with regular readers through forum, comments and email. Web savvy with a keen interest in new media, I have since expanded my skills with gadget and lifestyle blog, Beyond Kewl, cultural blog Late Mag and also design, interiors and property website, Breathe Modern, both of which I delight in littering with punchy prose and cheeky one-liners.

•   Finding media difficult to break into and not wanting to make cups of tea in the hope of a break, I, along with my web designer friend, set up Late Film as a platform to get my name out there. We have since made it one of the top-ranking sites on the net where my work has been read by millions of readers. I have written for other sites, covered premieres and screenings and my work has appeared in American papers and regularly on Reuters. We have also secured advertising with prestigious agency, Gorilla Nation.

Customer Services Representative                                                                       2004 – 2005

•   Typical cell centre job for money to live while I worked evenings and weekends to make my name in writing. Taught me experience of working in a team and that it was imperative I got a more interesting and varied career.

Various agency jobs                                                                                               1999 – 2004

EDUCATION

BA (Hons) English, Film and Media
King Alfred’s College, Winchester

Interests

Providers of software to produce price tickets, labels, RFID tags and barcodes for the retail industry.

Provided:

Web Design
Content Management
Flash

Visit: www.ico-uk.com