Blog
-
5 Digital Marketing Takeaways from WordCamp Montreal 2012
We’re really fortunate to be able to share and learn from our peers about the WordPress platform’s latest developments and techniques. We recently attended WordCamp Montreal, one of the many local “un-conferences” on everything to do with WordPress. At a WordCamp, advice typically ranges from beginner information to highly technical and specific aspects of the popular website content management system.…
-
Finesilver Design + Communications WordPress Website
Kobayashi Online provided coding for the relaunch of Finesilver Design + Communications’ new online identity built around the concept that “great creative moves people”.
-
Scotiabank BuskerFest Facebook Contest App
In order to build excitement and help with the overall online strategy, we created a Facebook App to encourage people to “Like” the festival on Facebook and have a chance to win two tickets to the 4th annual Scotiabank BuskerBall Gala.
-
Designing a Logo for WordCamp Toronto: Our Journey
As you likely know, we develop most of our websites using the WordPress platform. When Toronto’s WordPress user and developer group announced an open competition to create a logo.
-
Around the Office: Steve Jobs’ Humility, Olympic Typography, Optical Illusions, and 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. “The logo and typographic branding of the modern Olympics have been striking, sometimes iconic, and always a representation of the design ethic of the time,” says Monotype Imaging’s Allan Haley.…
-
Bad Design Sometimes Hits the Mark, But That’s No Excuse
Sometimes bad design can be good. Ahem, sorry, let’s try this again: Bad design can meet the client’s objectives. But even though bad design sometimes hits the mark, we think there’s no excuse for bad design. And furthermore, you can incorporate whatever trickery that make horrible designs work into something that’s truly elegant and beautiful.…
-
Around the Office: A Remote Orchestra, Getting Closer with Zoomy, Wes Bos Talks WordPress, 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. Eva was in the lab – Google’s Web Labs that is – making music by controlling a virtual orchestra. Google’s Universal Orchestra, which allows people to control instruments online, is…
-
Automated Twitter Updates for WordPress: 5 Steps to Make Great Tweets with WP to Twitter
When you publish new content to your blog, don’t wait for people to just stumble on it – tell your followers on Twitter and other social media channels about it! If you don’t have a lot of time, there are some great ways to automatically send out a Tweet the instant you publish a new…