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This has been another busy year for us at Virtual Swanage, which is our 29th year of promoting Swanage and Purbeck online. We have spent time working on optimising the website navigation and other page content to make the pages even easier to use on smaller screens. The Whats On section has been upgraded with the previous calendar view returning in addition to the list view mode for events Site
31 December 2025

New Weekly Social Media Features

Celebrating 30 Years of Virtual Swanage with New Weekly Social Media Features As we celebrate 30 years of Virtual Swanage, we’re excited to launch a fresh series of weekly social media posts designed

Celebrating 30 Years of Virtual Swanage

Celebrating 30 Years of Virtual Swanage: A Look Back at the Early Web In 2026, Virtual Swanage turns 30 years old, which feels somewhat unbelievable when you consider how different the internet looke

Updates to the website menus and navigation

We have seen a steady increase in mobile users visiting the Virtual Swanage website and decline in desktop users over the past few years. In the past we designed the website for a desktop first layou

Upgrades to our Walking and Cycling Route Pages

Since the earliest days of the Virtual Swanage website back in 1996 we have shared our favourite cycling and walking routes online. We are pleased to announce some exciting updates to the cycling and

Adding Google Analytics and Cookie Consent

Google Analytics - Understanding Our Visitors Google Analytics allows us to see how people use the site. It gives us insight into which pages are most popular, how visitors find us, and what devices

29th Birthday for Virtual Swanage

Only one more year until the Virtual Swanage website hits the big 30. We celebrate this milestone with other websites also launched in 1996 including Ask Jeeves, Booking.com, Wayback Machine and Yaho

Swanage webcam page updates

We have been working on changes to our Swanage webcam page with a higher quality and wider view from our roof on the southern side of Swanage near the Black Swan pub which looks North-East over Swanag

Virtual Swanage Gets a Speed and SEO Boost

We’ve recently completed a round of major updates to the Virtual Swanage website to improve performance, usability, and search engine optimisation. The backend has been rewritten using ASP.NET Core,

New Odysee video channel

We have launched a second video channel for our webcam videos and other Swanage and Purbeck videos on the video sharing platform odysee You can follow us on odysee at https://odysee.com/@Swanage:0

2024 December Update for Virtual Swanage

The past 12 months have been very busy for us at Virtual Swanage, which is in its 28th year of promoting Swanage and Purbeck online. We have spent many hours working on search engine enhancements to

Improvements and changes to the Events Section

At Virtual Swanage we are always looking into ways to improve the performance and functionality of the website to make the pages faster to load and easier to use for our visitors. The Events and Fest

Year Long Webcam Timelapse

Since July 2023 we have been saving the images from our webcam to create timelapse daily and monthly videos. Now we have enough photos to create a year-long timelapse to see the changing seasons over