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

The WEA in the West Midlands have launched their new IlluminateICT web site.  The web site has added new functionality including direct feeds to social media, private areas for staff and tutors and a slick new design.

click here to visit their site and perhaps sign up for a course

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

Thank you to Coventry Mind for commissioning IlluminateICT to build their new web site, The web site has now been launched at www.coventrymind.org.uk.Read more

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

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

Mixed results for green IT goals

A majority of public sector employees do not know about environmentally friendly IT targets set out in government's Greening ICT Strategy.   The strategy calls for government IT to be carbon neutral by 2012, with office carbon emissions down 11.5% by 2011.Read more

About three million homes in the UK have broadband speeds of less than two megabits per second (2Mbps) according to research commissioned by the BBC.Read more

THE EIGHTH,  UK-WIDE, ANNUAL SILVER SURFERS' DAY IS ON FRIDAY, MAY 15^thRead more

ICT Champion, Pete Read, presented at the annual Navca Chief Officer's Conference.  Looking at the various areas that need to be considered when selecting a database. Working from a strategic viewpoint the presentation concentrated on People and the Organisation.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

Building Global Democracy

The Internet is global, but limitations of language can prevent true communication.  The team at BGD, Building Global Democracy, commissioned IlluminateICT to develop a multi-lingual website at www.buildingglobaldemocracy.org.Read more

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

I have recently joined illuminate iCT, as a volunteer, to assist with their various administrative duties. Working in such an organisation is definately a new experience for me and hope that my knowledge of using various ICT applications keep me in good stead.Read more

The Every Voice Counts Empowerment Network is an exciting initiative in the West Midlands.  IlluminateICT has been awarded the contract to develop the web site for the network at www.evcwm.org.uk.Read more

We have now set up a code server to publish all of our open source work - even those tiny bits of code that we often write to solve a particular problem. We are very dedicated to sharing knowledge, especially since we (and the groups we do work for) have benefitted so much from the hard work of other open source developers.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

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

IlluminateICT has been working to develop a low cost entry solution for smaller voluntary and community organisations to let them get onto the internet. Using the powerful Drupal solution we have now created a method that will allow organisations to create their own web site in a day.Read more

We're starting to build up a glossary of internet terms. Some of the vocabulary used when discussing some of the technical bits of dealing with websites can be be a bit obscure.

We try to be clear in all our communications with you and it's helpful for us sometimes if we can point you to a page on our site that explains what we're talking about.Read more