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Practical website advice for business owners, from planning a new site to keeping WordPress secure, fast and easy to use. Explore articles on web design, search engine optimisation, hosting and the everyday decisions that help your website support your business.

I share what I have learnt from designing and developing websites for businesses in Herne Bay, Canterbury and across Kent, alongside work with larger organisations and digital products. The aim is to explain the options clearly, so you can make informed decisions about your own website.

Whether you are considering a redesign, comparing WordPress support or looking for ways to improve your content, start with a topic below. If you need advice about your particular site, use the question form at the bottom of the page.

kc web design Kent’s tools for web design

Here's a quick run down of the tools we use here at kc web design Kent in our daily web design creation. We use all sorts of different tools but here are our favourite and most useful web design apps and online tools...

Coda 2 – Coming soon on 24th May

This is a post I’ve been wanting to write for the last 5 months but we all promised Cabel at Panic a vow of silence. What we were all working on was top secret – but no more – the announcement came from Panic last night that Coda…

iPhone app design – graphics

Website design takes time. iPhone app design takes even longer. With so many assets to produce in so many formats and resolutions, creating a universal iPhone/iPad app can take many, many hours.

Adobe Creative Cloud – Web design bliss!

At kc web design Kent we got very excited using the beta version of Photoshop CS6. We got even more excited when the new pricing structure was announced along with the Creative Cloud.

iPhone app design wireframes

At kc web design Kent we know the value gained from good wireframes when creating a website design, but with iPhone app design...

kc web design Kent and streetlife.com

kc web design kent are proud to be working with the amazing streetlife.com - the local social network - as their new web design partner.

Designing an iPhone app

At kc web design kent we mostly do website design, ecommerce web design, responsive web design and print & brand design. Designing an iPhone app is something many designers...

Web design and sketching ideas

At kc web design Kent we do a lot of web design, UI design and mobile app design work. One of the most valuable processes we go through on any project is the initial sketching phase.

Mobile website design or native app design

At kc web design Kent we get a lot of requests from people wanting iPhone apps. Some of them are unique ideas that would make great apps, most of them though, are simple mechanisms such as...

Mac Flashback Trojan

At kc web design Kent we use Macs. Web designers and anyone in the web design industry mostly use Macs. I've been a designer for over 15 years and have always used Macs.

Facebook – Eating everything in its path

After a hard days work at kc web design Kent I don't normally dive into Facebook to socialise although I know a lot of people that do. I have to say I'm not the biggest Facebook fan.

Web design books – Web app success

At kc web design Kent we like keeping up with the latest technology and trends in web design and one of the best ways to do this is by reading a website design related book.

Web design with Photoshop CS6

At kc web design Kent, we've been web designing with Photoshop CS6 Beta for the past week or 2. So, what do we think so far...

Web design books – The icon Handbook

At kc web design Kent we do a lot of icon design work, they get included on websites, user interfaces and iPhone apps and they can be integral to a web design UI.

Adobe Photoshop CS6 beta preview

Adobe have released a beta preview of Photoshop CS6 which has some interesting new features and looks like it will be worth the upgrade from CS4 when it comes out.

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