Today marks the first birthday of our blog, the BwLOG. In that time we’ve posted 105 articles, had over 80 comments (with many more spam ones) and played a lot of table football. The posts, as well as being about Betley Whitehorne and our work for clients, have covering everything from The Value of Design, and the Death of Comic Sans to Brilliantly Bright Beijing Bookshops and Wind Powered Complex Contraptions. In that time we’ve also relaunched our website and leapt up the Google rankings and launched Terrific Horrific where you can find the best Mince Pies. So happy birthday BwLOG!

If you’ve been shopping recently you’ll know Christmas is coming, that it’s starting to get festive. It’s the season to be jolly and to give gifts. But most importantly it’s also the season to be scoffing as many mince pies as possible. But which are the best? Do you know your terrific tarts from your horrific mince pie parts? If you don’t, do not worry, help is at hand.

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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. Read more

Staring at columns of facts and figures isn’t much fun and not very visually exciting, but understanding and being able to quickly read data is important. IBM’s Many Eyes project makes dealing with data more interesting. Read more

Betley Whitehorne have recently branded Strategic Management Consulting Limited, an independent provider of strategic planning advisory services for offshore Trustees in the fiduciary sector.

The eye-catching work involved the creation of print literature, stationery and website to promote and provide details of the services offered.

With the launch of our new website in March of this year I took the opportunity to properly optimise it for search engines as our old site ranked very poorly. As the new site is primarily flash based it took a few special tricks and ideas to maximise our position, but they seem to have worked. Read more

Monday saw the launch of Riders Offshore; a motorcyclists’ e-commerce dream. If you’re a keen rider the site is a great place to buy motorcycle helmets, visors, jackets, trousers, boots, gloves and a large range of other motorcycle accessories. Designed and developed by Betley Whitehorne for Riders, the site freshens up their image and replaces the Visors Worldwide site with an expanded product range that caters for a wider audience.

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Cymbolism is an online experiment that lets you associate colours with words. A random word is selected with a brief description and you can click the coloured box that you feel most closely captures the essence of the word. I think the palette from which to choose is rather limited, being primarily bright colours but it’s an interesting idea and I like the way previous results are displayed using coloured bars at the bottom of the site. Being able to view results by gender, age, geo-location etc would also make it more valuable as a tool.

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The Guernsey Memory Walk will take place on Sunday 28th September and Betley Whitehorne has launched the new website, which will feature an online registration facility.

All money raised from the Memory Walk will go to the Guernsey Alzheimer’s Society, the UK’s leading care and research charity for people with dementia, their families and carers, and the Maison Million Appeal, which is raising money in order to provide a local Alzheimer’s care unit.

You can get full details on the Guernsey Alzheimer’s Society, details of the walk, register online and download a sponsorship form on the website.

UPDATE: Well done to all the walkers on Sunday, the event was a great success, aided in part by the Memory Walk website. Over half the people who pre-registered did so via the website:

Betley Whitehorne’s website and the facility to register online enabled us to reach out to new and old friends who contributed to a fantastic day on Sunday. We look forward to building on the success of the website over the coming year. A huge thank you to the team who created the site.

In September of this year the fourth Victor Hugo International Music festival will take place in Guernsey. This years lineup of musicians includes classical acts such as the Southbank Sinfonia and Psophos Quartet, as well as traditional folk music and dancing from Portugal and Latvia.

You can get full details on all the acts performing as well as how book tickets on their website which we’ve recently updated.