News and updates
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 | 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 »
ILRT wins two ‘green’ awards
Project Manager, Sarah Agarwal, recently won the University of Bristol’s “Environmental Hero” award 2009. This is given to just one member of staff each year. Sarah’s particular contribution has been the promotion of Fairtrade within the University. The awards are given under the Green Impact Awards scheme.
ILRT also won a Silver Award to recognise our [...]
Published on 3 Sep 09 under News and updates | 1 Comment »
Developing the Plone CMS
On an unusually hot and sunny weekend, Ed Crewe spent three days stuck inside tapping away on a computer, surrounded by plates of half eaten food and glasses of half drunk beer. This was the Bristol Balloon Sprint, a gathering of independent developers who volunteer their time to help develop the Plone open source CMS.
There [...]
Published on 3 Sep 09 under News and updates | No Comments »
BBC Countryfile Magazine praise for Amateur Entomologists’ Society website
The Amateur Entomologists’ Society (AES) website has been named as one of the best wildlife websites in Britain by BBC Countryfile Magazine.
The site has been run by our own Kieren Pitts (as an unpaid volunteer) since 2005 and the site was relaunched in its present form in April 2008. During the relaunch Kieren worked with [...]
Published on 3 Sep 09 under News and updates | No Comments »
User testing for AuthorAid in Rwanda
Sarah has been to the University of Rwanda in Butare, to look at how the AuthorAid system we created is working for its intended beneficiaries, and also to discuss the project’s internet strategy. Beneficiaries are finding the site really helpful in assisting them to move forward in their academic careers. We also developed the basis [...]
Published on 29 May 09 under News and updates | No Comments »
New website for the European Agency
We’re pleased to have recently launched a new site for The European Agency for Development in Special Needs Education: <http://www.european-agency.org/>
The Agency provides a platform for European collaboration in the development of provision for learners with special educational needs.
In addition to the public-facing site, we also developed a Plone-based intranet for the Agency’s [...]
Published on 29 May 09 under News and updates | No Comments »
New AuthorAid website
This week, the new AuthorAid website was launched. We created this using a Plone-based Content Management System. AuthorAid was commissioned by the International Network for the Availability of Scientific Publications (INASP). The site has been very exciting to work on for many reasons:
From the outset it’s been built around the needs of its intended users. [...]
Published on 20 Feb 09 under News and updates | No Comments »
Our CMS is running over 200 websites for the University of Bristol
The biggest Content Management System (CMS) that we’ve developed and support is for our own University of Bristol, using Plone. We recently reached a happy milestone – 200 websites are now run from our university Plone CMS. So, in addition to the main site www.bris.ac.uk being delivered by the CMS, there are 199 satellite websites [...]
Published on 20 Feb 09 under News and updates | No Comments »