Client:

AECID

Type:

Website – Full Content Management System

URL:

www.aecid.org.kh

Description:

The Spanish Agency for International Development Cooperation (AECID) is the management authority of the Spanish policy of international development cooperation, and its objective is the promotion, management and implementation of public policies on international development cooperation, aimed at combating poverty and achieving sustainable human development in developing countries.

AECID required a new website for their Cambodian operations and due to the international nature of the organisation it was necessary that the site be available in three different languages; Spanish, English and Khmer (Cambodia). It was important for AECID that the website be clear, simple to navigate and easy to update, allowing users to find information and documentation quickly, as well as providing a private area for development partners.

Client:

Distilled Ideas

Type:

Website – Full Content Management System

URL:

www.distilledideas.com

Description:

Distilled Ideas creates factually-based multiplatform content for a range of clients. Primarily they are interested in the intersection between Story and Strategy. Dovetailing high quality with high impact, they work with broadcast production companies, NGOs, the public & the private sector.

Distilled Ideas are a new company and needed a high-quality website to showcase their work in creating documentaries, viral web videos, as well as detailing their service offerings with regard to workshops and content creation. As Distilled Ideas are an extremely active company they required a customised WordPress system to enable them to easily create different content types as well as standard news updates. The finished system allows Distilled Ideas to make one update which dynamically changes multiple areas of the website to keep their content looking fresh and engaging.

Client:

Reel Festivals 2011

Type:

Website – Full Content Management System

URL:

www.reelfestivals.org

Description:

Reel Festivals believes that art and culture are the best way to learn about and understand each others’ worlds better, showing the reality behind the headlines. Reel Festivals 2011 focused on Syria, Lebanon and Scotland with films, music and poetry events.

Reel Festivals needed to considerably update and expand their website from their previous festival website. As they were hosting the festival in three countries they needed a much expanded site allowing for news, guest posts, event timetables as well as having the ability to add content in English & Arabic.

Client:

Support Worldwide

Type:

Website – Full Content Management System

URL:

www.supportworldwide.org

Description:

SUPPORT is an international organization that works in partnership with governments, donors and other agencies around the world to build successful reproductive and sexual health programs and policies.

Support required a website allowing them to easily add news items as well as being able to upload documents to their publication library.

Client:

Leonard Photography

Type:

Website – Full Content Management System

URL:

www.leonard-photo.com

Description:

Leonard Photography is run by Philip Leonard and specialises in wedding, portrait and commercial photography as well as image restoration.

The site required a series of galleries that could be easily updated as well as gift voucher purchase functionality.

Client:

Jacob’s Fig Rolls

Type:

Website – Mini site for Jacob’s Fig Rolls allowing users to publish their photo and video content.

URL:

www.figrolls.ie

Description:

Jacob Fruitfield Food Group is responsible for some of Ireland’s most loved and cherished food brands.

Jacob’s required a mini site for their Fig Rolls Taste Buds campaign showcasing their recent television, radio and viral adverts. The site also needed to give members of the public the ability to upload their own captured photos and videos of the Fig Rolls Taste Buds.

Client:

Rebecca Davis

Type:

Website – Full Content Management & E-commerce System

URL:

www.rebeccadavis.com

Description:

Established in 2007 Rebeccadavis.com is both an online and in store accessory boutique. Boasting designers from throughout the world Rebeccadavis.com aims to bring you both unique and timeless pieces.

Rebeccadavis.com needed a complete revamp to the look of their website as well as incorporating a much more user friendly and extensive E-commerce sytem with integrated blogging and newsletter functionality.

In the end I’d just give up and shut the machine down, but last night I was feeling in the mood to do a bit of investigation so I looked around and found a few posts which answered the issue.

First up was “Windows 7 – Why your computer won’t go to sleep” where I discovered a new command for investigating exactly this issue – I could run “powercfg /requests” to see what was causing the computer to fail to go to sleep.

You need to run this as an administrator, so go to start, type “cmd” and right-click the Cmd icon and select “Run as Administrator” as shown in the screen capture to the right.

This launches your command line interface where you should type “powercfg /requests”. Note if you don’t run this as administrator you will get an error message on running the command.

Below you can see the offending result:

AWAYMODE:
[PROCESS] \Device\HarddiskVolume2\Program Files\Windows Media Player\wmpnetwk.exe
Media Sharing has been enabled through Windows Media Player.

Instantly this revealed that there was something active with Windows Media Player.

A bit of research dug up the fact that Windows Media Player 12 comes with an option for Media Sharing – not something I’ve ever used or ever see myself using. This post on superuser gave me an idea of what was going on.

I investigated my Homegroup settings and found that Homegroups weren’t enabled, but I did remember having switched Homegroups on when I first installed Windows 7 to test them out as a possible alternative to old-style networking. So it looked as though Windows 7 had enabled this service and it was running by default whether I wanted it or not.

Simple solution: disable the service entirely and prevent it from running.

To do this, go to start and type “services.msc” and hit enter. This launches your services configuration editor. Scroll down to “Windows Media Player Network Sharing Service” and right-click and open “Properties”. In here you can stop the service and change the “Startup Type” to “Disabled”. Click apply and you’re all done.

If you want you can now run “powercfg /requests” again and you’ll no longer see wmpnetwk.exe causing any block on your computer going into sleep mode.

Happy sleeping!

Client:

CRNI

Type:

Website – Full Content Management System

URL:

www.crni.ie

Description:

CRNI is the all Island representative body for community based re-use, recycling and waste prevention organisations.

CRNI required a brand new website for their company which allowed visitors to easily find a local community-recycler, along with the desire to provide a frequently updated news section and detailed information about the company.

Client:

Bounce Broadband

Type:

Website – Full Content Management System

URL:

www.bounce-broadband.com

Description:

The aim of Bounce Broadband is to bring high speed internet to rural Ireland. Using WiFi (wireless internet) technology Bounce Broadband are able to deliver a better, more reliable product to their customers without the limitations of DSL (e.g. phone line rental)

Bounce Broadband needed a fresh new design for their website, also giving them the ability to update their content. It was important for them to be able to change prices, quickly and easily add news updates and have their coverage map reflected as they expand their network.