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Web design, WordPress & SEO insights

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.

Hello world!

Welcome to WordPress. This is your first post. Edit or delete it, then start blogging!

Web designer? Then watch this…

I don’t get much time to go to conferences these days, if I did I’d go to Build and New Adventures. At Build this year was a talk no designer should miss.

Hicks.uk.com web design

Brand new website design for photographer David Hicks built on Wordpress CMS.

Auto Italian

Auto Italian - logo and brand for Italian car specialists

Dribbble web designer invite giveaway

Those nice folks at Dribbble have gifted me with 1 Dribbble invite to giveaway to 1 lucky web designer! What a great Xmas/New Year present to bestow on a talented web designer!

Deltr - a web app for harsh economic times

For a while now here at kc web design, Kent, we’ve been working on a new web app. Deltr. It’ll launch some time next year in an economy that isn’t at it’s best.

50% of web design projects don’t consider mobile

In a survey by Design Shack, almost 50% of web design companies didn’t consider mobile users when building websites. Mobile users now account for over 15% of all UK web traffic ...

Web design side projects - Deltr

We’ve had a few side projects here at kc web design, Kent. Most notably, our Notebox web app for web designers that was launched last year.

Web designers and the Typo3 CMS

Content management systems are great. They empower our clients to take control over their own websites and make building good, content rich websites easier. Or at least they should!

FlameOps website design

Brand and logo design, website design, print and graphic design, mobile website design and iPhone app design. We’re doing them all for FlameOps.

Excel World website design

We’ve recently launched a brand new website design for Excel World, a leading provider of training, consultancy and business improvement courses

Mobile website design kent

On Friday the iPhone 4s was released to the general public. In the last 4 days over 4 million iPhone 4s handsets have been sold. Going on those figures alone, anyone ignoring the mobile platform would be very, very silly.

Business cards

As well as creating websites, web apps and engaging user interfaces we also do the odd bit of print such as business cards

Web design and SQL Injection hacks

Like most web design studios we don’t just do design all day, we develop websites from scratch and write all the code. This means we use all sorts of technologies on all sorts of platforms. Over the past few months we have noticed a massive increase in hack…

HTML5 Boilerplate theme for Expression Engine

At kc web design ltd, Kent we work a lot with Wordpress and Expression Engine. On a recent project we decided to create a blank theme based on the fantastic HTML5 Boilerplate framework that we could use on other projects as a blank, basic template when we install…

Your website should bring you more business

Making your website stand out in a crowd isn’t always about making it look different or quirky. Standing out in a crowd can also be done by making your website work well.

What is responsive web design?

Responsive web design means using fluid grids, fluid layouts and media queries to adapt your website layout for different screen sizes. Responsive website design means your website will change depending on the growing device so it shows a different layout for mobiles, iPads or huge monitors.

SEO and website design blogs

Everyone talks about blogs, almost everyone seems to have a blog, but how can they help your new website?

Web design and your website content

In today’s global, web based economy, your website and website design is your most important sales tool. Your website is the most powerful communication tool your business has and is most often the first point of contact that a new client or customer will have with your company.

Is your website design losing you customers?

A recent survey by 1&1 Internet has concluded that 37% of people have walked away from doing business with an online company simply because their website design was bad.

Web Design For Small Businesses in Kent

Embarking on a new website design or web design & build project can be a little daunting. Your new website design should all run smoothly and the ultimate goal is to increase traffic and new business from the new website.

Being a Kent web designer on Dribbble

One of my goals for this year was to get on Dribbble. For those that have never heard of it - and you probably won’t have unless you’re a designer - it’s an invite only community for designers that allows you to upload snippets of designs for feedback…

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