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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.

Work Life Shift Blog

The concept of the workplace has changed. FUJITSU Work Life Shift helps organisations create digital workplaces for their employees wherever they choose to be, whether that’s at home, in an office or on the move. kc web design are currently creating a new blog for FUJITSU Work Life Shift.…

GlobeRanger website

As a wholly owned subsidiary of Fujitsu, GlobeRanger is a world-leader in IoT technology. kc web design was commissioned by Fujitsu and GlobeRanger to design and build a new independent website for GlobeRanger to showcase their IoT solutions and services.

Cleaning up Space

The UK Space Agency set out on a mission committing funding to combat space debris. To tackle this challenge, Fujitsu is working with Astroscale UK, University of Glasgow and AWS to successfully combine quantum-inspired computing and Artificial Intelligence to transform space debris removal. kc web design was commissioned…

IT365 website design

IT Support 365 is an IT Managed Services Provider with a focus on providing IT support to small and medium-sized businesses in the South of England and throughout the UK. Working with the brilliant Kudos Marketing, we created a brand new design for the IT365 website.

Web designers! Should you use Elementor in your WordPress website?

The short answer Yes. Absolutely. Grab it here. The long answer Normally when designing and developing bespoke WordPress websites for our clients we’d use the Advanced Custom Fields plugin and create custom template so that the client has full control over their specific content needs. But not all…

Fujitsu & RAF 100 – Inspiring young people

kc web design were asked by Fujitsu and the RAF to build a website to promote career pathways to school children for Fujitsu and the RAF as part of the RAF 100 anniversary year. The website links in with live events all around the country where children get…

UK & Ireland tech blog website design

kc web design and Fujitsu have been working together for a number of years. We originally created the Fujitsu UK tech blog website design back in 2014 and since then it’s gone on to become a leading tech blog for UK business leaders. The latest version of the…

We’ve been a bit quiet here at kc web design

Its been a long time since I’ve posted on the website, but with very good reason. We’ve been working for a few years with Fujitsu UK helping redesign parts of the website, working on small microsites and doing other design and web work. Last year we started working…

Project Cirrus World Record wing suit attempt

kc web design are very proud to be a part of Fraser Corsans incredible world record wing suit jump record attempt. We’ve been working with Fraser and Fujitsu for the last 6 months on the website and brand for Project Cirrus and the time is rapidly approaching for…

WordPress hacked on 4.7.0 and 4.7.1

Last week I had a client contact me about a hacked website. On all of our WordPress websites that we don’t host with Pressidium (THE best WordPress hosting out there!) we use some pretty good hardening and security to make sure our sites don’t fall victim to hacks.…

Digital Workplace microsite

kc web design were commissioned by Fujitsu to create a small microsite to work as a stand alone hub, social media archive and lead generation tool for articles and white papers on a specific subject – The Digital Workplace. The site was created to look like the global…

Novacast custom website design

Novacast is a specialist ferrous and non-ferrous foundry located in Melksham, England that specialise in all types of casting. Working alongside Kudos Marketing we created a custom website design for Novacast that would bring their online presence up-to-date and give them a much better foundation for future features. A new custom website…

WordPress – Copy image title to ACF custom field on image upload

Here’s one little snippet that took a while to work out so I thought I’d post it here in case its useful for others. I had a custom field using ACF (Advanced custom fields plugin) that added an extra field to uploaded images that I wanted to use…

kc web design – new website, updated brand

Looking after your own website and brand is sometimes very hard. When client website design work comes first it can be tricky to find the time to redesign and rebrand you’re own company, especially when you’re a small web design agency like we are. About 18 months ago I…

Fujitsu UK & Ireland tech blog website design

Back in 2013 kc web design designed and built a website site for Fujitsu UK and Ireland that would allow them to trial run a technical writing blog. Two years later and the blog had been such a huge success that Fujitsu came back to us to completely…

Bryncoed TV Productions website & brand design

Bryncoed TV Productions are behind some of the biggest TV shows in recent years. From their roots producing Casualty they have gone on to produce TV shows such as Robin Hood for the BBC

Simplisys service desk website design

KC Web Design created a brand new logo and identity for the new Simplisys Service Desk application that would integrate with all the different types of media needed to fit around a full service product

Paramour Grange WordPress website design

kc web design were asked by the owners of Paramour Grange to design and build a new website that would be a showcase for the property, provide information on holiday lettings and bring in new customers.

ThermaSolutions – Web app design award 2015

kc web design kent built the ThermaSolutions suite of web apps based on industry standard calculations to create an easy to use, online and mobile friendly system to help heating and boiler engineers.

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