Tag: Web design

My City of Migration: myCOM

Posted on September 11, 2017 by - Portfolio

Cities of Migration: From diversity – strength Ryerson’s Cities of Migration project posed Kobayashi + Zeitguys a problem; Building Inclusive Cities is a learning platform that facilitates education around a core urban development issue in our time; Cities that aspire to a cosmopolitan reputation on the global stage need to build diversity into their winning formula. Along with efforts to sell their particular “brand” and to compete for investors, new industries or tourism, cities are investing in welcoming strategies to attract immigrant skills,…

WordPress and Web Accessibility

Posted on March 11, 2014 by - Tips and Tricks

The YYZ is a Nice Place to Be It’s fair to say that the city of Toronto is reasonably accessible. You can access any major retailer, access restaurants, major sporting events, concerts, and most other public places. Wheel-Trans can even get you there for the same price as the regular TTC cash fare. I must say that Wheel-Trans is probably the best thing the TTC has done in a while. Yes, even the TTC can do some good once in…

Creating a Brand Online: Choosing a Creative Agency for Your Website

Posted on March 1, 2013 by - News

A woman deep in thought

Trying to understand how your small business can become online friendly? This is the second article in our series “Creating a Brand Online”, where we provide straightforward advice for your small business as you create your online brand. Looking for an agency to design and develop your website is thought of as a stressful decision, but it doesn’t have to be difficult. Just like any other investment, it helps to be informed and have a clear sense of what makes different…

Around the Office: Steve Jobs’ Humility, Olympic Typography, Optical Illusions, and more

Posted on July 29, 2012 by - News

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. Haley wrote a fascinating blog post about Olympic typography and logo changes from the first image and type logo of the 1952 Helsinki games to…

Around the Office: Regent College Online, Immortal Critique, and a Case for Pinterest

Posted on May 19, 2012 by - News

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 He likes what Regent College has done with their website, YouTube, Twitter, and Facebook design. This Vancouver graduate school is just one of many post-secondary institutions grounded in knowledge and implementing current technology. Not only that, but they do it with a divine sense of style! This week, Brent has, once again, been wrestling…

Around the Office: Custom Twitter Backgrounds, Wordmark.it, and the Isotope jQuery Plugin

Posted on April 15, 2012 by - News

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. Having designed many corporate Twitter themes, Eva knows how important Twitter backgrounds can be. Even savvy businesses that use tweets to reveal the personality behind their company may not realize the importance of Twitter backgrounds. A new Designers Hub article explains that a background helps align your Twitter account and brand, exhibit creativity, communicate your…

Probing the Hidden Depths of WordPress Themes

Posted on April 7, 2012 by - News

One of the things we love about the WordPress content management system is its uncanny ability to adapt to an endless variety of web design needs. It can be changed and customized to look and perform radically differently depending on what’s needed. WordPress themes provide a design & layout out-of-the-box. In an effort to provide more unique designs to the masses, WordPress theme developers have brought a wide variety of free and premium themes. Themes will provide a set of design, layout and functionality…

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

Posted on March 17, 2012 by - News

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. Selectors serve the important role of matching a set of elements in a document. And while building custom selectors beyond the ones included in jQuery…

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

Posted on March 2, 2012 by - News

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 best Facebook Pages techniques include having unique design, interesting content, interactive applications, re-posts of useful information, and regular activity.Check out the post for more ideas to make compelling Facebook Pages. Brent was a…