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  • Happy Holidays from Online Friendly and Kobayashi Online

    At this joyous time of year, we’d like to wish you happy holidays. It has been a true honor working with our clients over the year, and sharing tips to make the most of your online presence. We wish you abundance, happiness, and peace to you, your family, and your business for the coming year.…

  • Why e-commerce? 3 Reasons Why an Online Store Makes Sense

    E-commerce can be a great standalone business, or an addition to your existing sales. There are numerous examples of companies that have successfully used online retail to their advantage. The Thorpes of Gosforth Fireside Shop, an English store that supplies everything to do with fireplaces, is a great example of a traditional company using the…

  • Around the office: Modern SEO, Comic Sans Remixes, WordPress 3.3, more

    Around the Office is a weekly group blog that shows what the OnlineFriendly.biz team and Kobayashi Online have found interesting, funny, poignant, or otherwise notable over the past week. Roberto wants online traffic seekers to know about some modern day Search Engine Optimization practices, because, after all, SEO isn’t just about backlinks, keywords, and tags…

  • Michael Coombs WordPress Development

    In cooperation with Laura K Brand Design, Kobayashi Online helped create a website for wedding and special event DJ Michael Coombs that helps showcase his exciting business.

  • Around the Office: Colour Gradients, Coca-Cola Changes Colour, more

    Around the Office is a weekly group blog that shows what the OnlineFriendly.biz team and Kobayashi Online have found interesting, funny, poignant, or otherwise notable over the past week. Daveed has been using a new online tool from Colorzilla that creates colour gradients using CSS. Select any number of colours, adjust their position, and the…

  • Around the Office: Japan’s Colours, Web Activity Maps, Hiring Immigrants, more

    Around the Office is a weekly group blog that shows what the OnlineFriendly.biz team and Kobayashi Online have found interesting, funny, poignant, or otherwise notable over the past week. If you’re interested in Internet traffic, Wayne wants you to check out some very cool visualization tools from Akamai that show how the Internet is doing…

  • News Release: Kobayashi Online Develops New Online Immigrant Resource

    User Experience-Focused Web Design Makes Hireimmigrants.ca a One-Stop Help Center for Employers November 30, 2011 — TORONTO, ONTARIO — Toronto-based digital marketing agency Kobayashi Online has redesigned Hireimmigrants.ca to provide a user experience that guides employers through the process and benefits of recruiting, retaining and promoting skilled immigrants. Hireimmigrants.ca is an initiative of ALLIES (Assisting Local Leaders with…

  • Design, Layout, Functionality: the Basic Elements of Web Experience

    A great webpage is more than just the product of good code. Think back to the last time you navigated a website and found the information, product or service you were looking for. [Updated January 2018] If this was a positive experience, chances are that a lot of thought went into creating a site that…

  • Kobayashi Online Supports Cut-A-Thon and Toy Drive

    Kobayashi Online is proud to be a supporting sponsor of Donato Salon + Spa’s Cut-A-Thon and Toy Drive for SickKids this weekend. Kobayashi Online handles many aspects of Donato’s Web presence, having created their eCommerce website and integrated blog, as well as a custom email gift certificate solution. A successful charity campaign needs to have…

  • Around the Office: Urban Type, Meta Data, Grooveshark’s Blues, more

    Around the Office is a weekly group blog that shows what the OnlineFriendly.biz team and Kobayashi Online have found interesting, funny, poignant, or otherwise notable over the past week. Want your content to be found online? Wayne wants you to know about an HTML standard that can be understood by the major search engines. Google,…

  • 6 ways to become unlikable: Is your Facebook Page alienating your friends?

    Facebook Pages are great for keeping your company’s fans updated on the latest developments, promotions, and information about your company and industry. Visitors who click the “Like” button on your Page will be able to see posts from your Facebook Page when they access their Facebook timeline. “If you build it, they will come” doesn’t…

  • Around the Office: WordPress Security, Patent Peeves, Encrypted Searches, More

    Around the Office is a weekly group blog that shows what the OnlineFriendly.biz team and Kobayashi Online have found interesting, funny, poignant, or otherwise notable over the past week. Roberto found out a few ways to thoroughly secure a WordPress-based site. Some tips include never using the default “admin” user name, installing the WP Security…

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