Firefox 3.5 has been released and it’s the greatest, fastest version yet. As it’s so quick they’ve enlisted some high speed individuals to help promote it such as the amazingly nimble lad above.

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Betley Whitehorne have designed and developed a new content managed website for Fund Corporation. The website includes a secure area where clients are able to safely download files and documents – all of which can be managed through the website administration system.

Fund Corporation are an independent, Guernsey-based administration firm who specialise in providing outsourced investment administration services.
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Betley Whitehorne are proud to have launched the Run for Charlotte website which aims to help raise money for The Wessex Neurological Centre Trust who treated young Charlotte, you can read more about her story and how you can help on the website.

Did you know that 3 in every 1,000 of Guernsey residents has been treated in the last 5 years for brain tumours, epilepsy, haemorrhages, blood clots or other neurological disorders at The Wessex Neurological Centre Trust at Southampton Hospital?

Once upon a time when the internet was young and a 56k modem was an item of envy there were two main web browsers battling for supremacy, Netscape Navigator and Internet Explorer. After a long, hard fought fight Internet Explorer won the war and became the browser of choice with nearly 95% of the market, and it’s remained top of the pile ever since. At it’s peak it was arguably the best browser on the market but in recent years the competition have regrouped and launched a major offensive, the two main combatants are Mozilla’s Firefox and Apple’s Safari with the former in particular taking great strides into Internet Explorer territory. As a web developer at Betley Whitehorne I feel it’s my responsibility to educate you as to why you NEED to update your browser. This little quote might help convince you:

In 2006, citing its lack of security, PC World magazine named Internet Explorer 6 eighth on their list of the “25 worst tech products of all time”.

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We’ve updated our website with some new work. You can check it out here:

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For the last few days we’ve had a bright yellow bird, which we believe to be a Great Tit, tapping on our office windows. Thinking that it’s trying to tell us something we’ve created a Twitter account. You can follow us here: http://twitter.com/bwguernsey

In June of last year we relaunched the Guernsey Gas website. What was originally a small website became a large online resource packed full of information and services. The new website has continued to develop since going live and proved very popular with a 1733% increase in visits. This growth is shown in the graph below; the new website launch is clearly visible half way along.

Guernsey Gas, in partnership with Sure CW, is sponsoring intrepid Channel Island adventurers Steve Wright and Simon Elmont on their Spring 09 expedition across Greenland – a trip designed to raise awareness of important environmental issues to school children in Alderney, Sark and Guernsey (through interactive experiments, devised by the students themselves), as well as charitable fund raising in aid of Motor Neurone Disease (for full details, visit greenland09.com).

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Betley Whitehorne and Guernsey Gas have launched Greener Guernsey, a website dedicated to helping you save energy, money and the environment. With global warming becoming an ever bigger topic the time to act is now. You may feel that you can’t do much to help but even small changes can help make a big difference if we all get involved.

Packed full of useful tips and great offers the site is well worth a look. For instance, did you know that simply fitting the correct heating controls in your home could reduce your energy bill by up to 15%.

For tips, offers and advice visit Greener Guernsey.