Websites
Our core business is putting together web platforms that produce demonstrable return on investment for small to medium businesses and non-commercial organisations; websites that are fit for purpose, blend seamlessly with the core brand, appeal to the appropriate target audience, and adapt for a great viewing experience on all devices from smart phones to 27" desktop monitors.
Sample Websites
The websites below have all been built and hosted by Kikk. Click images for details - more to be added shortly
Plumpton Race Course
Plumpton Race Course needed a fresh, lightweight evolution from their previous site - ensuring continuity of style whilst benefiting from a more logical layout and navigation.
At the back end, the site also needed a more lightweight content interface and a speed bump which we achieved by migrating to a LiteSpeed web server.
On the hosting side, the site has capacity to cope with periods of intensive demand on race days with up to 1000 users at any moment.
Visit the Plumpton Race Course website
Plumpton Race Course
Gate Safe
Following the tragic deaths of 2 children in gate accidents, Gate Safe was set up as a charity to promote the safe installation and maintenance of electronic gates and barriers systems in housing, education and commercial establishments.
This large and active site features a responsive design, membership area, A-Z and postcode based searches for accredited installers, an interactive visualiser and more.
Visit the Gate Safe website
Gate Safe - Charity
CCT
Community Counsellor Training is a Canterbury based training organisation offering a full range of courses and workshops leading to formal qualifications for counsellors awarded by the appropriate bodies.
The website details the various courses and dates, and allows for online booking and payments.
The site is fully responsive, adapting perfectly to different sizes devices from smartphone to ultra-wide desktop screens
Visit CCT website
Community Counsellor Training
White Mill Vets
White Mill Vets is a long established Equine, Farm and Small Animal veterinary practice based in Sandwich Kent.
The site was built to replace an older fixed-width site with site-scrolling technology that on tablets and smartphones.
The site is fully responsive and features 2 complex forms for pet registration,and repeat prescriptions. It also has an “i-frame” link to out of hours emergency services (effectively a live external web page in a white mill page frame)
Visit White Mill Vets website
White Mill Vets
Kings Mile Florist
The Kings Mile Florist is a small boutique florists in the heart of Canterbury’s Kings Mile district.
As well as the shop, they offer local deliveries in the liveried vans.
The website is largely photograph driven and is also currently trialling a basic bespoke online ordering system using Stripe Checkout payments. This will be expanded if successful.
The site is fully responsive, adapting perfectly to different sizes devices from smartphone to ultra-wide desktop screens. It is also SSL secured.
Visit the Kingsmile Website
Kings Mile Florist
Weymarsh Equestrian
Weymarch Equestrian is the home and business of Sarah Ridd a talented Dressage Rider, Trainer and Breeder.
The business also offers first class livery and a wide range of professional advice to all levels of rider and othrs in the equestrian world.
We recently rebuilt Sarah’s website in WordPress using lightweight responsive methods to ensure good performance on all devices
Weymarsh Equestrian
Big Hill Tipis
Based in Hastingleigh, Ashford, Big Hill Tipis is one of the areas longest established suppliers of authentic tipis - both for hire and for sale.
We originally built a BHT site in 2010 and have recently rebuilt it to be more contemporary in style with a gentle parallax effect, and to give mobile users a better experience.
As of November 2018, the site is 85% complete and will have some finishing content and layout adjustments in due course.
Big Hill Tipis
The Lodge Treehouse
A magical, treehouse hideaway in the heart of Kent, this was a new project for the owners offering relaxing short breaks away from it all.
We undertook photography for the treehouse and built the site to show this to good effect as well as present other local attractions.
Imagery makes use of the popular 'parallax' effect whereby images appear to scroll over a fixed background.
Visit the Lodge Treehouse website
The Lodge Tree House
Hafan Saff
Hafan Saff is a social services sector private company providing specialist Children’s homes in Wales.
The requirement was for a simple site and corporate email facility.
Security is a priority hence the site and email facilities are protected with SSl encription
The requirement was for a simple site and corporate email facility.
Security is a priority hence the site and email facilities are protected with SSl encription
Hafan Saff Cyf - Children’s Care
Insider Tours
This specialist travel business operating out of Devon offers ethical and responsible travel to destinations in Sri Lanka, India and Peru. Their tours focus on experiencing local culture on the ground along with support for local eco-projects and more.
The site is fully responsive and features a complex booking form with the ability to pay fixed deposits and client selected balance amounts via paypal
Visit the Insider Tours website
Insider Tours
Bulltown Farmhouse
Bulltown Farmhouse is an attractively restored 15th century bed and breakfast Farmhouse, surrounded by an English cottage garden. The Farmhouse is situated in an area of outstanding natural beauty in West Brabourne, close to the Kent North Downs.
The website receives traffic from all over the world and provides visitors with the opportunity to submit their booking requirements.
Constructed in Wordpress by Kikk, using a new versatile theme.
Visit the Bulltown Farmhouse website
Bulltown Farmhouse
Thurston Helicopters
Thurston Helicopters is a CAA approved helicopter training school and provider of pleasure flights / sightseeing tours across Kent.
We rebuilt an ageing site for them, allowing for mobile and tablet friendly 'responsive' design as well as secure online purchasing and booking forms.
The site also streams live weather data from specialist sensors at Headcorn Airfield.
Visit the Thurston Helicopters website
Thurston Helicopters
Making Change Happen
Run by Organisational Psychologist Sandie Bakowski, this London based Change Management Consultancy specialises in corporate cultural analysis, business transformation and employee engagement.
In a similar scenario to our clients at the Food marketing Experts, Sandie had a website that was well designed but ultimately in the wrong hosting environment.
WordPress sites need to be well managed i.e. associated software needs to kept up to date to avoid security glitches and ongoing.
The new site is fully secure, updated and stable. It is also much faster due to our LiteSpeed enabled Cloud Servers.
Visit the Making Change Happen website
In a similar scenario to our clients at the Food marketing Experts, Sandie had a website that was well designed but ultimately in the wrong hosting environment.
WordPress sites need to be well managed i.e. associated software needs to kept up to date to avoid security glitches and ongoing.
The new site is fully secure, updated and stable. It is also much faster due to our LiteSpeed enabled Cloud Servers.
Visit the Making Change Happen website
Making Change Happen
Padstone Recruitment
Padstone Recruitment is a fast-growing recruitment company specialising in supplying blue and white collar personnel across the South East. The website has a live jobs feed with searchable database and candidates can only submit their credentials and timesheets.
The site was built in Wordpress and uses a responsive, flexible theme.
Visit the Padstone Recruitment website
The site was built in Wordpress and uses a responsive, flexible theme.
Visit the Padstone Recruitment website
Padstone Recruitment
Affinity Prime Media
Affinity-PrimeMEDIA is a leading independent Swiss media company that represents print, digital, TV and outdoor media across the world. They link Swiss and Liechtenstein advertisers to more than 300 media from different sectors and target groups.
This is a trilingual Wordpress site, built and maintained in English, French and German and presently with 220 pages.
Visit the Affinity-PrimeMEDIA website
Affinity-PrimeMEDIA
Polar Helicopters, Manston
Polar Helicopters is a CAA approved helicopter training company based at Manston Airport in Kent.
They offer training for the Private Pilots Licence (helicopters) plus a range of advanced, post PPL courses.
Additionally, they offer self-fly helicopter hire and taster flying sessions for novices.
This site was commissioned to replace an older, fixed width site and is fully responsive for mobile use.
The site features separate online purchasing for flight vouchers and for novelty gifts.
The previous site was hosted on older servers and we took this opportunity to migrate both the website and all emails to our state of the art shared hosting.
Visit Polar Helicopters website
Polar Helicopters
Everybody's Better
Everybody's Better is a 'built from scratch' site we completed in summer 2021. They specialise in Emmett technique for both humans and animals.
Built in WordPress, the site also utilises WooCommerce for a small shop.
It also feeds from Facebook and Instagram
Visit Everybody's Better Website
Everybody's Better
Gebby Eaton
Gebby is a spine tinglingly good singer based in Warwickshire, specialising in jazz and mellow acoustic music for weddings.
The website offers information, audio tracks and integration with her instagram page.
The site is fully responsive, adapting perfectly to different sizes devices from smartphone to ultra-wide desktop screens.
Visit Gebby Eaton’s website
Gebby Eaton - Jazz Singer
Hallingbury Hall
Hallingbnury Hall is one of the leading horse riding training centres in the UK. Regardless of whether you are an absolute beginner or an experienced rider, their ethos remains the same.
Hallingbury Hall Equestrian Centre is a professional and happy yard, offering a teaching system where both horses and humans are praised for good work resulting in a positive and highly motivating learning environment.
The training philosophy held by Hallingbury Hall is simple: they strive to empower our customers by providing them with the necessary tool set to improve their riding performance and set them up for success.
Kikk recently rebuilt their website in WordPress using lightweight responsive methods to ensure good performance on all devices
Hallingbury Hall
Gerald Wilton Design
Gerald Wilton Design can make any form of exterior signage or interior décor item that is not available ‘off the shelf’ - such as, traditional hand sign writing, hand-painted pictorials, decorative wrought iron metalwork, interior bars, back bars, over bars, furniture, light fittings, mirrors, candle sconces etc.
The website was built to showcase their work and to provide inspiration to existing and potential clients. It comprises more than 1,500 images and was built in Wordpress.
The site was built by Kikk in Wordpress and uses a responsive, flexible theme.
Visit the Gerald Wilton Design website
Gerald Wilton Design
Bulltown Farmhouse
Bulltown Farmhouse is an attractively restored 15th century bed and breakfast Farmhouse, surrounded by an English cottage garden. The Farmhouse is situated in an area of outstanding natural beauty in West Brabourne, close to the Kent North Downs.
The website receives traffic from all over the world and provides visitors with the opportunity to submit their booking requirements.
Constructed in Wordpress by Kikk, using a new versatile theme.
Visit the Bullton Farmhouse website
Dental Care Centre
The Food Marketing Experts
Based in Cambridge, TFME are exactly what they say on the tin - experts in marketing food products and services.
Their client list reads like a who's who of the culinary world and the team are constantly fired up to handle the pressure in the competitive world of food and retail marketing.
This website was essentially a rebuild of their original site as the WordPress hosting environment had not been managed by their previous agency and technical problems had arisen with the security and stability of the site as back end software had become out of date.
The original design however was very good and we had little to change in this respect.
The new site is now fully maintained, secure and faster due to our WordPress optimised LiteSpeed cloud servers
Their client list reads like a who's who of the culinary world and the team are constantly fired up to handle the pressure in the competitive world of food and retail marketing.
This website was essentially a rebuild of their original site as the WordPress hosting environment had not been managed by their previous agency and technical problems had arisen with the security and stability of the site as back end software had become out of date.
The original design however was very good and we had little to change in this respect.
The new site is now fully maintained, secure and faster due to our WordPress optimised LiteSpeed cloud servers
The Food Marketing Experts
Innova Drilling
Completed in spring 2021, this version of the newly rebranded Innova Drilling website is our third since 2013 - always good to refresh you website every few years!
Innova Drilling is an Aberdeen based software business in the oil and gas exploration sector.
This site is built using Foundation 6 - extremely lightweight and fast performance
Visit Innova drilling website
Innova Drilling - Oil & Gas
Tallow Restaurant
Headed up by Rob and Donna Taylor, - previously of the Compasses Inn, Crundale, Tallow is an outstanding restaurant
All photography is also by Kikk
Visit The Compasses Inn website
Tallow Restaurant, Good Food Guide Winner 2023
Premier Signs
For 15 years, Premier Signs have been creating eye-catching signage solutions for clients in Kent and beyond.
With an impressive client portfolio the website brief was to showcase the wide variety of fascias & window graphics, vehicle wraps, banners and magnetics, exhibition displays, Illuminated signs, external and internal signage that Premier Signs can provide.
The site was constructed in Wordpress using a professional, responsive business theme, enabling users to obtain all the information they need within a single page.
Visit Premier Signs website
Premier Signs
Team Hayler Dressage
Team Hayler dressage is based near Chelmsford in Essex, at the home of Paul, Gill & Bobby Hayler.
Paul and Bobby are popular, well recognised International Grand Prix Dressage Riders. Both highly successful equestrian athletes in their own right, Paul and Bobby also share their extensive riding expertise by delivering training on a 1-1 basis as well as running regular clinics and work shops, catering for all levels ranging from the amateur leisure rider up to the serious dressage competitor.
Kikk recently rebuilt their website in WordPress using lightweight responsive methods to ensure good performance on all devices
Team Hayler Dressage
Neptune Bar Hire
Neptune Bars was set up by Mat Butler in 2017 to provide premium mobile bar services to high-end events in Kent, Sussex, London, Surrey & Essex.
On this occasion we worked with graphic designer Dan Haynes in Canterbury, who provided the core branding design, and built the site using Zurb Foundation to match Dan’s print work. The site includes the use of a non-web font pulled in from Adobe Typekit servers.
Visit the Neptune Bars website
Neptune Bars
The Impressions Party Band
The Impressions is a popular party band playing at weddings and corporate functions and other events in Kent, Sussex, Surrey and London
This site was commissioned to replace an older ‘fixed-width’ site and offer video, audio and a detailed booking form
The site is fully responsive, adapting perfectly to different sizes devices from smartphone to ultra-wide desktop screens.
Visit The Impressions Party Band website
The Impressions Party Band
Spike Communications
Spike Communications is a specialist PR agency for the outdoor sector and has long term relationships with companies such as Salomon and Ellis Brigham.
The site is fully responsive, adapting perfectly to different sizes devices from smartphone to ultra-wide desktop screens.
Visit Spike Communications website
Spike Communications - PR
Clear Safety Services
Clear is a specialist health & Safety consultancy based in Kent.
We are approached to build a new website as part of a rebrand and to reflect business growth.
Built with the lightweight and fast Source framework, the site is clean, clear and makes good use of icons.
Visit the Clear Safety Website
Clear Safety
Blueberry Communications
This clean and contemporary site was designed and built by one of our favourite graphic designers - Hugo Lamb - for a Canterbury based PR agency. As well as the site itself, Hugo designed icons for the site.
The website and client email is hosted by Kikk
The site uses a 'one-page' layout where navigation tabs scroll to anchor points on the page rather than re-direct to separate pages. This method provides a good user experience for smaller sites, due to quick navigation.
Visit the Blueberry Communications web site
Blueberry Communications - PR
Apple Mac mechanic
Bulltown Farmhouse is an attractively restored 15th century bed and breakfast Farmhouse, surrounded by an English cottage garden. The Farmhouse is situated in an area of outstanding natural beauty in West Brabourne, close to the Kent North Downs.
The website receives traffic from all over the world and provides visitors with the opportunity to submit their booking requirements.
Constructed in Wordpress by Kikk, using a new versatile theme.
Visit the Apple Mac Mechanic website
Apple Mac Mechanic
Windy Ridge Furniture
Based in Sittingbourne, Windy Ridge make bespoke furniture and joinery including kitchens, stairs, windows and more.
They had an existing, somewhat dated website but the original designer had long disappeared and nobody had any knowledge of how to access the hosting, emails or domain name.
After digging around and negotiating with Nominet, Kikk rectified all of this and built a new site which is largely finished but in need of some more photography for the gallery.
Visit the Windy Ridge Furniture website
They had an existing, somewhat dated website but the original designer had long disappeared and nobody had any knowledge of how to access the hosting, emails or domain name.
After digging around and negotiating with Nominet, Kikk rectified all of this and built a new site which is largely finished but in need of some more photography for the gallery.
Visit the Windy Ridge Furniture website
Windy Ridge Furniture
mobile first
We have been building responsive sites as default for a long time - ‘responsive’ means your website will adapt to the device being used to browse it and look great whether whatever the screen size. Mobile First is a logical extension of this given that people are now more likely to view your site on a mobile device than a desktop. With this approach we start with the mobile view and work out for desktop devices.
on-line shops
You may have a single product or service needing a single paypal button. You may need a multi-page on-line shop. Perhaps digital downloads are your thing with licence protection. It is all within scope and we'd love to talk you through some options
musician sites
With lots of musical connections, we are always interested in working with singers, bands and musicians - ensuring not only that your image is well portrayed but that sample audio is functional across all browsers and platforms
eye candy
A little eye-candy does wonders for your sites' appeal. Whether you want tabbed / tabled info, anti-nuisance notifications, light boxes, 360 degree / zoom-in product photos, or parallax images for wow factor - we can deliver!
Portfolios
Photographers, film makers, artists - we would love to assist with your portfolio site. There are lots of approaches to portfolios and we can guide you through the maze ensuring your work is 'crystal' on all platforms - including Apple's retina screens
complex forms
We encourage the use of web-forms as they are a great way of capturing customer data. These can be very simple name / email / message constructs or complex booking forms. We offer anti-spam security as standard