• Creating an Online Experience for The Real Estate Experience

    The Real Estate Expereince combines the knowledge and experience of RE/MAX First Realty Ltd. Brokerage Sales Representatives Elizabeth Haug and Kevin McCullough, who serve Scarborough and communities in the Durham Region (including the Ajax-Pickering area). The website and logo we created showcases the quality of service clients have come to expect from TREE. Project Details therealestateexperience.com website was created…

  • Web Design & Development Trends of 2012

    As web designers and developers, we trust our core design sensibility to create websites around principles of taste and usability. But we also love seeing new ideas and new current website trends. In this post, we’ll run down some of the web design and development trends we found captivating in 2012. 1. Single-Page Websites Navigating…

  • Around the Office: YouTube Monetization, Heuristics, Small Business Design, and 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. Psi Makes Millions on YouTube Video Daveed was happy to see Korean pop star Psy make more than $8 million from YouTube for his hit song “Gangnam Style”, signaling a change in how pop…

  • 4 Reasons Design is Crucial for Small Businesses

    4 Reasons Design is Crucial for Small Businesses

    People sometimes think design is superfluous to something’s function – like the sprinkles on a cupcake. But when it comes to the mission of a company, great design can help bring to the surface everything that makes your business unique and great at what it does. Whether it’s the product itself, or a logo, flyer, business card, or website, everything employing design helps customers…

  • Around the Office: Emailing Iframes, DJ Fees, and Creative 404 Pages

    Around the Office: Emailing Iframes, DJ Fees, and Creative 404 Pages

    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. Iframes and Email Don’t Always Mix Roberto would never send you an iframe in an email message because iframes don’t consistently work in email. Why does this matter? Whether they know it or…

  • Around the Office: Internet Freedom in Syria, Windows 8 Gestures, Email Messages that Hit the Mark, and More!

    Around the Office: Internet Freedom in Syria, Windows 8 Gestures, Email Messages that Hit the Mark, and 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. As a believer in Internet freedom and democracy, Daveed was saddened to hear that Syria had essentially blocked its citizens from the Web, an action that many attribute to the authoritarian government’s desire…

  • Around the Office: On the Importance of Websites, Building a Brand on Pinterest/Instagram, Making Meaningful Content, and 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. Social networks are, of course, a great way to drive traffic to a website, and David and Daveed found it astounding this week that some major companies ignore the marketing potential of image-oriented social…

  • Building an Internet that Includes Everyone: Accessibility Camp Toronto

    Over the weekend the Kobayashi Online team had the pleasure of attending and sponsoring the second annual Accessibility Camp Toronto. Held on November 17, 2012 at OCAD University, this “un-conference” gathered accessibility experts and those hoping to make websites and applications that everyone can use. The basic goal of accessible web design is to create online content that’s more…

  • Developing a Modern, Engaging WordPress Website for IT Firm Optimus Tech

    Developing a Modern, Engaging WordPress Website for IT Firm Optimus Tech

    Kobayashi Online was able to provide the WordPress development and coding required to make this a reality. The new Techoptimus.com was built on the WordPress Content Management System.

  • Around the Office: Accessible Talk on Accessibility, Weekly Knit Fonts, Mobile Design Beyond WebKit, More!

    Around the Office is a weekly group blog that shows what the Kobayashi Online team has found interesting, funny, poignant, or otherwise notable over the past week. As far as we’re concerned, inclusiveness should be one of the key features of the web – everyone should be able to experience webpages. This is why Kobayashi Online sponsored and…

  • Around the Office: Procurement with Diversity in Mind, Treating Customers Equitably, A Raspberry PI Update, More!

    Around the Office is a weekly group blog that shows what the Kobayashi Online team has found interesting, funny, poignant, or otherwise notable over the past week. Brent thinks Toronto businesses can benefit from diversity. That’s why he’s encouraging business leaders to attend the “DiverseCity Counts Procurement” event on November 28. Event organizers, Maytree Canada, will also be releasing the next DiverseCity…

  • WordCamp Toronto Developers 2012 Inspires and Educates

    Some incredible things can happen when you gather dozens of WordPress developers into the same room. Kobayashi Online was a silver sponsor of WordCamp Toronto Developers 2012, which brought together roughly 260 attendees to discuss everything to do with building websites with the WordPress Content Management System. Because we do most of our web development…