I would like to introduce myself as the new administrator working with Pete and Mathew.  My name is Tracy Mullis and I joined the team at the beginning of February. I have worked in accounts for a number of years in the business sector.Read more

The London based Independent Living organisation has launched its new, illuminateICT website. The website includes some interesting functionality where the users can manage and classify content.  The aim of providing a website that encourages all users to join in the discussion about ensuring that service provision meets the needs of the client and not the provider.Read more

Web site Launch

New Leaf is a project, in Herefordshire for people, businesses, schools, shops, industries, colleges, parishes, farms, households, councils, groups and communities ...for you!Read more

Warwickshire Association of Youth Clubs have launched their new website.

The site will provide information and advice for youth workers, youth agencies and for young people looking for something positive to get involved in.Read more

Drupal has won best open source PHP Content Management System for the second year in a row in the Packt Publishing 2009 Open Source CMS Awards. Drupal won by popular vote and a critical selection by a panel of judges. This award reflects the strong support of the Drupal community and our focus on quality which leads to critical acclaim and rapid adoption for large, high quality projects.Read more

Illuminate ICT is has been working to put on-line the directory of Health and social Care services for adults and older people in Coventry.

The directory was launched on 29th October 2009.  To visit the directory click hereRead more

IlluminateICT - Championing the use of ICT

Visit: www.wmictchampion.org.ukRead more

We hear of people getting lots of unearned income from their web sites

An upcoming workshop to look at Accessibility in Drupal.  For more information visit

http://conference09.illuminateweb.org.uk

Coventry Local Involvement NetworK have launched their web site. www.coventrylink.org.uk.  Ruth Light, the Project Manager, has been working hard with her team to develop relevant and exciting content. Including advice for the people of Coventry on Swine Flu.Read more

Today, 27th March 2009, sees the Launch of Leicestershire's Local Involvement Network new web site.  Good luck to all the people involved in the launch event at the BRITE Centre, Braunstone Avenue, Braunstone, LE3 1LE.

Please visit their site www.leicestershirelink.org.uk

IlluminateICT is delighted to announce that it has won some prestigious projects with the Local Involvement Networks or LINks.

We will of course share with you the launch of the two websites when they are ready but great thanks to the Coventry Link and Leicester Link and we look forward to working you.

When Bolton CVS needed a new web site in a hurry IlluminateICT were able to get them up and running in just a few days.  

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Congratulations to Nick Blundell, Most people will know Nick he is a founding member of the team and he is a highly thought of and skilled open source developer and a great educator. 

Nick has earned an opportunity to become a Lecturer at Birmingham University where he will be working with Master's students as they prepare for the finals.  Read more

We recently completed a website for Youth Action Stockport (YAS). a site I'm particularly happy with. Here's what Alex Bone, Volunteer Development Manager at YAS, has to say about working with illuminate:Read more

We've recently helped Voluntary Action Manchester to develop a new website. They've been really to great to work with and have had many ideas about how their site should look and behave.Read more

We're looking at the possibility of developing a module to allow students to better interact with their tutors at academic institutions. The idea is that a student could upload a paper of some sort (an essay, dissertation, project report etc) and have it assigned to their tutor for marking, approval, rejection, or whatever else.Read more

Visitors to your website who are blind or partially sighted cannot access the content on your website in the same way that a sighted visitor can.Read more

Every computer and webserver connected to the internet has an IP Address. They're all 4 numbers separated by . and each number has to be between 0 and 255.

So, and example IP Address would be 67.207.135.87

IP stands for Internet Protocol.

An 'A' Record is similar to a CNAME Record, in that it helps the DNS point what you type into your web browser, to the website you want to view. Whereas a CNAME record points the www part of the web address, an 'A' Record can point the domain name directly at the server.Read more

DNS (see the glossary entry for DNS) uses records to point different groups of characters to different websites.Read more

We at illuminate iCT are in the process of doubling our webserver capacity! We've started to notice that the performance of our main webserver isn't as good as we'd like it to be - it's getting quite full and it's beginning to show.Read more

We use a Cascading Style Sheet to tell your web browser what your webpage looks like. The HTML contains the content of the page, the menus, the images etc. The CSS describes what it all looks like. So it describes the size of fonts, background colours and images, as well as where everything appears.Read more

Webbie

This will be a collection of links that give useful information about website design, accessibility, hosting... Whatever takes our fancy. We'll be adding new links all the time, so please check back regularly.

Illuminate ICT spend a good deal of time working on your site designs. When they leave us, we're usually very proud of what we've achieved and we've given you a sturdy platform on which to build rich and beautiful content - I may be getting carried away! However, this is where one of the pitfalls of a Content Managed website rears it's fat, ugly head.Read more

Drupal is a Content Management System (CMS), it's Open Source and we think it's the best CMS available. That's why we chose it to provide our web services to you.

Find out more about Drupal.

If you're used to working with computers and having constantly to update to newer and newer versions of your software, you'll be forgiven for thinking that Web 2.0 refers to a new version of the internet.Read more

Normally, when you enter information on a form on a web page, you press a button (usually Submit, or Go) and then page reloads to tell you whether you were successful or if you'd missed part of the information that was required. It may say that you forgot to add your post code if you were entering your address. Something like that.Read more