Photo: Ben Edwards
wide media was founded in 1995 at the dawn of the commercial web. Since then we have developed many groundbreaking and successful web projects. We launched one of the UK's first ezines, FiX, followed by the UK's first fashion ezine which has evolved into the enormously popular fuk.co.uk community website.
Our philosophy has always been to take the latest developments in web technology and package them in friendly, attractive and fun products that delight our clients and their visitors.
Services we offer include:
- web site design
- ecommerce systems
- audio and video podcasts
- editorial
- consultancy on web strategy
- intranets
- content management systems
View some examples of our work, and meet the team behind them:
Ben Edwards
Ben was born in London, brought up in Highgate and Essex and after graduating from Kent University with a degree in Politics, explored the world of music events, journalism and DJing before focusing his talents on the technical. Ben now heads up wide media's technical team and is responsible for co-ordinating all our operations including creating and maintaining bespoke systems for fuk.co.uk and wide media's clients.
Marian Buckley
Marian was born in London, brought up in Streatham and after graduating from Oxford University with a degree in PPE, became a lifestyle journalist specialising in music and fashion. After a stint working for Channel 4, she launched a monthly magazine 24-7 aimed at the post-rave generation, then became the PR for the legendary Cafe Cyberia, the UK's first Internet cafe, before establishing wide media. She is a fashion writer, broadcaster and lecturer and also works as a fashion scout for companies looking to source new and original designers. She is wide media's Editorial Director.
Brad Sidey
Brad was born and raised in Surrey and graduated from the University of Kent with an MA in Philosophy and French Literature. After training to be a psychoanalyst, Brad turned his back on the world of therapy to focus on lecturing and gained several years experience working in book publishing before establishing wide media. Brad is wide media's Creative Director responsible for overall design.
We also work with:
Ian Gillett - One of the UK's most established catwalk and fashion event photographers
David Jones - A regular fuk.co.uk photographer and digital expert
Maia Adams - Fashion journalist and one of favourite show reporters
Selene Pearson - reporter, video shooter and invaluable member of the fuk.co.uk team
Karen Savage - stylist, designer, lecturer, fashion consultant, Karen does it all and finds time to blog for us
John Robb - musician, author, journalist and broadcaster, Robbo blogs and sometimes models for us
and a host of freelancers and technical experts on a project-by-project basis.