Finding copyright cleared images for your website
In recent years, digital cameras have become much cheaper and more widely available. This, coupled with faster Internet connections and the increase in the use of websites such as Flickr and Facebook, has made it far easier for people to create, share, access and use digital images on their websites. Using them legally is not [...]
Published on 2 Feb 10 under Briefings | No Comments »
ILRT People – Paul Smith
Paul is a Senior Technical Officer with the Internet Development (ID) Group, having joined the ILRT in March 2000. Previously, Paul worked for over four years as Senior Technical Support Engineer and Web Systems Engineer with an Internet software/hardware distribution company supporting a range of web server and statistics packages and networking applications. He has [...]
Published on 2 Feb 10 under ILRT people | No Comments »
All that gas – petrol price app for Android
The mobile phone world is undergoing a massive revolution as more handsets hit the market with ever increasing sophistication. Chris Bailey, one of our developers in ID, has recently created an application for the Android platform and in this article introduces us to Android and his application.
Published on 18 Jan 10 under News and updates | 2 Comments »
Website monitoring – a peek under the hood
We host scores of different websites for our clients, using a raft of different technologies. In fact, often the best solutions to our clients’ needs come from blending different technologies to deliver a single site. For example, a site might contain some simple web pages managed using a Content Management System (CMS), a large bank [...]
Published on 15 Jan 10 under Briefings | No Comments »
Deployment of a Virtual Infrastructure
Virtualisation is a term which has been in wide use in recent years but it is a computing concept which has been around since the 60s. Matt Baker, Unix Systems Administrator at the ILRT, has been working with virtualisation and explores some of the management issues in this article.
What is Virtualisation?
We often refer to using [...]
Published on 8 Jan 10 under Briefings | No Comments »
Firefox 3.5 – now the world’s most popular browser
Over the last few years Internet Explorer’s dominance in the browser market has been in steady decline. Today we are spoilt for choice in what we use to browse the web. With the slick Safari, mobile Opera, lightning-fast Chrome or ever-expandable Firefox, there is a browser out there for just about everyone.
Published on 23 Dec 09 under News and updates | No Comments »
New! We’re now providing content services…
The web is the most efficient way of communicating and engaging with your users and audiences. Many of our clients don’t have the in-house time or skills to do this, so we do it for them!
We have experts in writing, producing and publishing compelling text, video and audio content for the web. We also build [...]
Published on 15 Dec 09 under News and updates | No Comments »
A closer look at content migration
Redesigning your existing website is an exciting time. Kieren Pitts takes a look at one aspect of the project that is often given only cursory attention…. content migration.
Published on 11 Dec 09 under Briefings | 1 Comment »
What is Open Source?
We use a lot of open source software for our websites and systems, but what exactly does “open source” mean? Ed Crewe, Senior Technical Developer, explains…
What is it?
Open source is part of the ‘open movement’ which aims to provide open access to the source materials and knowledge with which high technology is developed. It shares [...]
Published on 4 Dec 09 under Briefings | 1 Comment »
Asking the ‘bigger picture’ questions… Thinking about a sign language-based survey tool
History is a funny thing. At its simplest, it’s easy to understand. History leaves evidence, which is read by historians, who tell you what happened and when. Simple? Well no… Because even if you know lots of things that happened, and when they happened, it still only gives you little bits of information. It doesn’t [...]
Published on 20 Nov 09 under Briefings | 1 Comment »