Tag: WordPress

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

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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: Great Collaborations, Automattic Acquisition, Native Advertising 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. Being a Part of Great Collaborations A lot of people make the mistake of thinking they should take care of every element of a project, when they really would offer greater value to clients through collaboration with other specialists. Our friends (and collaborators) at Finesilver Design + Communications wrote a post on the power of great collaborations.…

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 and design on WordPress, we were especially excited to see so many people learning about WordPress and realize the full potential and power of WordPress. Incredible things…

Kobayashi Online’s WordCamp Ticket Giveaway Ends

We had a tremendous number of entries in our WordCamp Toronto ticket contest, and we’d like to thank everyone who took the time to enter. The contest closed on Monday, and the following winners were randomly drawn and notified by email: Neil G. Lynn J. Leonard S. Catherine G. Colleen C. Mara S. The contest had been originally for five tickets. As a Silver Sponsor, however, Kobayashi Online was given a number of tickets, and we had one left over after our…

WordCamp Toronto Ticket Giveaway from Kobayashi Online

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We’re giving away five tickets to WordCamp Toronto, the city’s annual “unconference” on everything to do with the WordPress platform. Enter the contest here: http://ow.ly/dGMiA. For those of you who don’t know, WordCamp is a relaxed event where people of all levels can learn about how to create great online experiences – even if you’re new to WordPress. We like it so much, we’re silver sponsors and will be volunteering our time answering WordPress questions at the Happiness Bar. Just…

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 blog post. We’ve been using a WordPress plugin called “WP to Twitter”, which lets you customize how your tweets appear, making them more appealing, and…