• Online Relationships: Falling in Love with a Corporation?

    Once Upon a Time on Instagram Instagram is the setting of this love story. Yes, it’s nothing like the streets of Verona, or the cover of a Harlequin novel. But, does it really matter where you meet your loved one? What if our modern day Romeo had met Juliet online? Would their relationship be any…

  • Yonge Eglinton Dental

    Yonge Eglinton Dental, a premier Toronto-based Dentistry, approached Kobayashi Online for a bright and clean website makeover. A warm and professional dental practice, they were driven from their needs to create a website that could reflect the same to their clients online.

  • A Modern Logo for a Boutique Consultant Firm

    Kobayashi Online created for Whiteboard Consulting Group an updated logo to accompany their recent website refresh. The Creative team took inspiration —much like the original logo— from an actual whiteboard.

  • A New WordPress Website for Whiteboard Consulting Group

    Whimsy in the Front, and Corporate in the Back: Kobayashi Online provides a full website redesign in WordPress for Whiteboard Consulting, a Toronto-based boutique consulting firm.

  • A Bright, Modern, and Responsive WordPress Website for SRG

    Kobayashi Online designed a bright, modern, and responsive website for consumer research and insight consultancy SRG giving them a functional online platform to help their insightful research work reach businesses who need it.

  • Around the Office: Going Mobile, Flat Web Design, and Ghost CMS

    Around the Office is a weekly group blog of what the Kobayashi Online team has found interesting, funny, poignant, or otherwise notable over the past week. Going Mobile Helps Customers Find You Always mobile-friendly, Andy endorses GoMo, Google’s initiative for businesses to go mobile. According to Google statistics, three-quarters of customers prefer a mobile-friendly site. Aside from making…

  • Around the Office: WPUniversity Widget, Considering CISPA, WordPress.com Improvements, & More!

    Around the Office is a weekly group blog of what the Kobayashi Online team has found interesting, funny, poignant, or otherwise notable over the past week. WordPress Education Inside the Dashboard Always on the lookout for things that make online friendly, Brent was happy to see Toronto WordPress developers come up with the WPUniversity Dashboard Widget, which…

  • Republishing Posts Without Ruffling Feathers

    The Internet’s full of freely available blog posts and articles. And while this content may be free to read, it’s not necessarily free to repost on your website. In fact, it’s best to assume that it’s not free to repost. And while some blog writers may be flattered that you consider their blog post worth…

  • Around the Office: Fostering Innovation, Unwanted Beauty Pageants, and Dazzling Kinetic Art

    Around the Office is a weekly group blog of what the Kobayashi Online team has found interesting, funny, poignant, or otherwise notable over the past week. Sowing the Seeds of Innovation Andy was intrigued with an education theory put forth by Harvard technology and entrepreneurship expert Tony Wagner that emphasizes skill development and motivation. Wagner says this…

  • 5 Reasons To Use Email Marketing

    Want to know how your small business can become online friendly? Our “Building an Email List” series is designed to guide your organization through the use of email marketing for building your brand reputation, following up with leads, and growing your customer base. Straightforward advice ahead! With all the hubbub over social media and their…

  • Around the Office: Social Content Curation, Agile Marketing, Monday Spoilers, More!

    Around the Office is a weekly group blog of what the Kobayashi Online team has found interesting, funny, poignant, or otherwise notable over the past week. Curation Creates Scarcity from a Deluge of Online Content As a prolific creator of content, David was interested in the idea of social curation as reshaping the digital landscape (and even…

  • Around the Office: The Value of Boredom, Aphasia-Friendly Websites, & the Offline Masses

    Around the Office is a weekly group blog of what the Kobayashi Online team has found interesting, funny, poignant, or otherwise notable over the past week. Entertaining Ourselves Away From Creativity While it offers some entertainment in downtime, Daveed is a little worried his iPhone could be zapping his creativity. There’s a growing body of evidence to…