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  • Around the Office: A Trip to Jingjiang, Google Says “No” to Black Hat SEO, Yoast Shares Knowledge, 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 shared a video of her hometown, Jingjiang, located on the banks of China’s Yangtze River. The video shows some of the town’s epicurean attractions including steamed soup […]

  • Around the Office: jQuery Selectors, Email Blasts, and Retro Web Design

    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. Setting up your own selectors is extremely easy with jQuery, as Daveed was reminded this week thanks to a post outlining 12 awesome examples of jQuery selector extensions. […]

  • Around the Office: Next Nature, pea.rs, and CSS Wizardry

    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 is optimistic that technology and nature don’t have to be in opposition. Next Nature is a website that seeks to explore how we can design, […]

  • Timelines Are Coming to Facebook Pages This Month: Are You Ready?

    All Facebook Pages, including your company’s, will be updated with the new Facebook Timeline layout by the end of March. An update may be needed to make sure your Page looks and performs correctly. The Facebook Timeline is an extension of the original Facebook layout that offers new features and a new look, but could […]

  • Around the Office: Winning Facebook pages, elegant Web design, more

    Around the Office: Winning Facebook pages, elegant Web design, 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 knows what it takes to create a winning Facebook Page, and it’s because of this that he recommends seven winning Facebook Page strategies for companies. Some of the […]

  • Design Focus: Blind Barber

    “Design Focus” is a regular Online Friendly feature that examines well-designed sites to show how Web designers have overcome some of the challenges of their profession. Blind Barber Blind Barber is a high-end barber shop with a location in New York and one opening in LA. We think their site does a good job of […]

  • Around the Office: accountable apps, SEO mistakes, fun design, 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 is interested in a regulationproposed in California requiring mobile application developers to explain what personal information will be recorded and how it will be used. According to reports, applications […]

  • Around the Office: Interactive Charts, Bent Photos, Lost Reviews, 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. Looking to show some compelling data? Daveed recommends using the JavaScript InfoVis Toolkit to not only set people see charts and figures as visualizations, but also to interact with them. […]

  • Around the Office: online piracy, video marketing, great site design, 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. This was a busy week at Online Friendly since Kobayashi Online moved on Monday to its new location at 1200 Eglinton Ave. in Toronto. KO will now be […]

  • Design Focus: Fontsmith

    Design Focus is a regular Online Friendly feature that examines well-designed sites to show how Web designers have overcome some of the challenges of their profession. UK type design firm Fontsmith caught our attention with their calalog of creative fonts. In this Design Focus, we take a look at their website, and see if they put as much […]

  • Around the Office: Kobayashi Online moves, email marketing lingo, and 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 haven’t heard yet, Kobayashi Online is moving to its new Toronto location at1200 Eglinton Ave. East, Suite 801. Everyone has been busy packing and getting organized […]

  • Kobayashi Online has moved!

    After many great years at 2243A Danforth Ave, Kobayahsi Online is moving to 1200 Eglinton Ave. East, Suite 801, Toronto as of February 6, 2012. We think the move will help inspire us and our clients to innovate, explore and look ahead. Plus, Kobayashi Online will now be under the same roof as Finesilver Design. As the online world evolves, consumer […]