Small Businesses

Small to medium size businesses can now benefit from the host of software that is available to produce sophisticated systems at a fraction of the cost of a bespoke system.

Using our extensive experience in this fields, Light Source Solutions can help you to focus on your requirements, evaluate products on the market and purchase and configure them. Some of the area Light Source can help with are:

  • Content Management for your website
  • Bulletin boards and forums
  • CRM systems (SugarCRM)
  • E-learning systems (Joomla and Moodle)

It's a time of great opportunity for the small to medium sized enterprise, with technology at last starting to deliver reasonably priced solutions that enable organisations to "box above their weight"

Website Design and Creation

Light Source offer a range of web design services for all your requirements. We have expertise in the whole process of website design, creation, build, testing and hosting. You choose which services you require.

Typically, we can provide the following services when delivering a site:

  • Workshops to capture the brand function, values and essence
  • Branding and design of the site to include fonts, colours, images
  • Detailed specification of the site, including all functionality
  • Build of the site to comply with industry standards such as Disability Discrimination Act and Section 508 in the U.S
  • Full testing and training for use of the site
  • Hosting options if required.

Some of the many components and modules we have used, enhanced and integrated into our customers' site are:

  • Virtuemart - shopping basket
  • paypal - e-commerce
  • HSBC API - e-commerce
  • Jevents - online calendar
  • JomSocial and Community Builder
  • Forums - fireboard and kunena
  • Docman - documentation handler
  • JomComment - an AJAX user comment system
  • extened menu - for sub-menus and pulldowns
  • flash movie - for easy integration of Flash into banners and sidebars
  • google trans - to automatically translate your site into several languages
  • allvideos plugin - to easily show all formats of video on your pages, including MySpace and YouTube
  • GoogleMaps - use the power of visual maps. Define place markers and links
  • SOBI2 directory - create, categorise and manage information in a directory format
  • Smooth Gallery - to show your images in an engaging slideshow
  • Gallery2 - manage your galleries of images
  • equotes - a random quote generator

 

Project Management

Light Source has many years of excperience in managing IT based projects from inception to
successful conclusion.

We can provide you with the expertise to:

  • Capture your requirements
  • Analyse the results and produce detailed specifications
  • Help you to identify a product that may fit your requirements or produce the software for you using our developers and network of contacts
  • We can offer Prince 2 qualified project management skills to run your project to recognised standards