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 Masters students as they prepare for the finals.  Read more

First of all, may we wish all of our customers a very happy Christmas and new year.

Our office will be closed between Friday 19th December and Monday 5th January. You can still contact us using the contact form on this site. Response may be slower than normal over the holiday period.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

Training session for Your Site In a Day

By the end of this training participants will have published their web site.  They will have sufficient skills, knowledge and practice to be able to manage and maintain the content of their site inclduing the following:-

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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

Google have launched a new web browser called Chrome. It's an early release and there is obviously a lot more work to do. but it looks clean and simple to use.Read more

Our site now has a tips and tricks section in the Web area. In here, we'll put anything we think you'll find useful.

As with all the other site content, the tips and tricks will be fully searchable.

You can reach it from the Web menu, or directly from here.

The morning sessions.

Drupal in the sector

The first session was taken by Nick from illuminate and looked at how Drupal fits into the sector and at how skills can be harnessed throughout the sector to improve the viability of Drupal projects.Read more

A good turnout for the first Drupal conference facilitated by illuminateICT.  The donuts and coffee has been a big hit so far and I have great hopes that the actual content will be as well received.

As people have been introducing themselves it has become apparent that we have  good mix of people from both the voluntary and commercial sectors.Read more

There are currently no issues with our webservices.

Our new website has been developed using Drupal 6, the most recent release of the open source Content Management Framework.  Since trialling other such systems over two years ago, we decided that DRead more

Content

We can add content to your website to get you started. We'll charge you the daily rate of £200. After that, the content will generally be your responsibility.Read more

The site can be themed to suit your organisation, your branding or to take into account the likely visitors your site will have. We'll work with you to create a stunning and unique design.Read more

Basic Service.