Maifith Design inc » News http://www.maifith.com If you can imagine it, we can design it. Tue, 02 Mar 2010 17:22:18 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 en hourly 1 Use jQuery to Automatically Size your Footer Height http://www.maifith.com/news/use-jquery-to-automatically-size-your-footer-height http://www.maifith.com/news/use-jquery-to-automatically-size-your-footer-height#comments Tue, 02 Mar 2010 16:55:56 +0000 Toronto Graphic Design http://www.maifith.com/?p=355 Hi Again, it’s been a while, we’ve been busy! Moved twice and had a baby! Oh the time flies.

I was working on a project lately and came across a problem that I couldn’t find a solution for online, so…

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Download this is 1920 x 1200

Download this at 1280 x 800

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Maifith Design sliced and dices sites and produces clean XHTML and…

]]> http://www.maifith.com/news/slicing-psd-coding/feed 1 The simplest solution is the right one. http://www.maifith.com/news/the-simplest-solution-is-usually-the-right-one http://www.maifith.com/news/the-simplest-solution-is-usually-the-right-one#comments Fri, 06 Feb 2009 15:58:14 +0000 Toronto Graphic Design http://www.maifith.com/?p=242 I was working with a client’s programming team on a charts and data binding project lately when we came upon an interesting yet vastly frustrating problem.

The files were built on a machine that had…

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Our most common answer is — “That depends on your needs.”

No one -needs- a CMS just because they have a website.  You need a CMS because you have a need for multiple…

]]> http://www.maifith.com/news/do-i-need-a-cms/feed 1 Dealing with ugly Link Underlining http://www.maifith.com/news/dealing-with-ugly-link-underlining http://www.maifith.com/news/dealing-with-ugly-link-underlining#comments Tue, 16 Dec 2008 14:24:41 +0000 Toronto Graphic Design http://www.maifith.com/?p=228 We pride outselves on having great design skills at Maifith.  But you cannot just throw usability and accessability out the window when trying to acheive a good design.

I recently read an article at http://www.maifith.com/?p=219 So Google has updated their analytics engine and added some new code for users to put on their sites.  That’s great, right?  It’s good to see a company releasing updates to a free product.  Not entirely.

It would seem that…

]]> http://www.maifith.com/news/_gat-is-undefined-new-analytics-code/feed 19 The Currie Wealth Management Group http://www.maifith.com/news/the-currie-wealth-management-group http://www.maifith.com/news/the-currie-wealth-management-group#comments Tue, 30 Sep 2008 13:53:46 +0000 Toronto Graphic Design http://www.maifith.com/?p=216 Bill Currie and his team have contracted Maifith Design inc to create a web precense for the london based investment and wealth management group.

Their site has a group of specially design investment tools…

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There…

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We will offer the installation of a rudimentary CMS to your own host.  CMS’s include Wordpress, Joomla or Drupal.  We suggest Wordpress for a simple site,…

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The second being a…

]]> http://www.maifith.com/news/custom-wordpress-plugins/feed 0 I Wonder What This Button Does http://www.maifith.com/news/i-wonder-what-this-button-does-2 http://www.maifith.com/news/i-wonder-what-this-button-does-2#comments Thu, 03 Jul 2008 15:38:18 +0000 Toronto Graphic Design http://www.maifith.com/?p=100 I recenty had a client who let a young fish work on one of the sites I was doing for him.  He uploaded an old version of it and since I no longer worked on the project, I didn’t have…

]]> http://www.maifith.com/news/i-wonder-what-this-button-does-2/feed 0 Wordpress 2.5 http://www.maifith.com/news/wordpress-25 http://www.maifith.com/news/wordpress-25#comments Mon, 31 Mar 2008 20:39:15 +0000 Toronto Graphic Design http://www.maifith.com/?p=95 We’ve officially upgraded to Wordpress 2.5 and I must say, it is noticeably faster. The new layout is clean and intuitive. It is based more on Human Language and sensibility than previous versions.

The Wordpress team has done an excellent…

]]> http://www.maifith.com/news/wordpress-25/feed 0 Findability, Orphan of the Web Design Industry http://www.maifith.com/news/findability-orphan-of-the-web-design-industry http://www.maifith.com/news/findability-orphan-of-the-web-design-industry#comments Tue, 25 Mar 2008 20:23:20 +0000 Toronto Graphic Design http://www.maifith.com/?p=94 Once upon a time in a web design agency, there lived a sad little boy named Findability. He was a very good boy with a big heart for helping people…

  • find the websites they seek,
  • find content within websites,

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We at Maifith Design are committed to testing and using new software for…

]]> http://www.maifith.com/news/magento-online-store/feed 1 Understanding Web Design http://www.maifith.com/news/understanding-web-design http://www.maifith.com/news/understanding-web-design#comments Wed, 05 Dec 2007 18:11:47 +0000 Toronto Graphic Design http://www.maifith.com/rants/understanding-web-design/ by Jeffrey Zeldman

We get better design when we understand our medium. Yet even at this late cultural hour, many people don’t understand web design. Among them can be found some of our most distinguished business and cultural…

]]> http://www.maifith.com/news/understanding-web-design/feed 2 12 Lessons for Those Afraid of CSS and Standards ~ alistapart.com http://www.maifith.com/news/afraid-of-css-standards http://www.maifith.com/news/afraid-of-css-standards#comments Tue, 26 Jun 2007 20:33:05 +0000 Toronto Graphic Design http://www.maifith.com/guides-and-tutorials/afraid-of-css-standards/ by Ben Henick

When I first encountered Cascading Style Sheets in the autumn of 1998, I was trying to do cool stuff make this stuff over here move, make that stuff over there change color and…

]]> http://www.maifith.com/news/afraid-of-css-standards/feed 0 Design on a production line http://www.maifith.com/news/design-on-a-production-line http://www.maifith.com/news/design-on-a-production-line#comments Wed, 13 Jun 2007 18:01:56 +0000 Toronto Graphic Design http://www.maifith.com/rants/design-on-a-production-line/ Ever worry you’ll arrive at work to find that your swivel chair has been replaced by a super-intelligent software appliance that can create seven user-centered websites in a single CPU cycle? Haven’t we all? OK, maybe it’s…

]]> http://www.maifith.com/news/design-on-a-production-line/feed 0 Safari on Windows? Yup! http://www.maifith.com/news/safari-on-windows-yup http://www.maifith.com/news/safari-on-windows-yup#comments Mon, 11 Jun 2007 18:21:42 +0000 Toronto Graphic Design http://www.maifith.com/technology/safari-on-windows-yup/ There are now three versions of the popular apple browser; OS-X (of course), Windows XP and Vista. The performance grids on Safari compared to Firefox and IE are outstanding. Safari is a whole 1.6x faster than FF and 4.5x faster…

]]> http://www.maifith.com/news/safari-on-windows-yup/feed 0 Google Analytics makes a big change! http://www.maifith.com/news/google-analytics-makes-a-large-change http://www.maifith.com/news/google-analytics-makes-a-large-change#comments Tue, 08 May 2007 18:03:04 +0000 Toronto Graphic Design http://www.maifith.com/technology/google-analytics-makes-a-large-change/ Google is no stranger to Web 2.0. Nor are most of their services.

I have always raved about the quality of Google Analytics and it’s massive amount of features. But now they have outdone themselves in its design and layout.…

]]> http://www.maifith.com/news/google-analytics-makes-a-large-change/feed 0 HTML5, XHTML2, and the Future of the Web http://www.maifith.com/news/html5-xhtml2-and-the-future-of-the-web http://www.maifith.com/news/html5-xhtml2-and-the-future-of-the-web#comments Fri, 13 Apr 2007 13:12:25 +0000 Toronto Graphic Design http://www.maifith.com/new-projects/html5-xhtml2-and-the-future-of-the-web/ As workers on the web today, we are dealing with many technologies that have been stable for a long time.

While HTML 4.01 is formally an SGML-based document format, the only clients actually

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]]> http://www.maifith.com/news/community-web-portal/feed 0 Logo Re-tracing project for U of T http://www.maifith.com/news/logo-re-tracing-project-for-u-of-t http://www.maifith.com/news/logo-re-tracing-project-for-u-of-t#comments Tue, 20 Mar 2007 19:25:25 +0000 Toronto Graphic Design http://www.maifith.com/new-clients/logo-re-tracing-project-for-u-of-t/ Maifith Design inc has been contracted by the Leslie L. Dan Faculty of Pharmacy to retrace their ancient crest from a business card scan. Apparently no one has the original. We will provide them with an Illustrator EPS with selected…

]]> http://www.maifith.com/news/logo-re-tracing-project-for-u-of-t/feed 1 Strong Foundations, Strong Futures http://www.maifith.com/news/strong-foundations-strong-futures http://www.maifith.com/news/strong-foundations-strong-futures#comments Mon, 19 Mar 2007 17:09:09 +0000 Toronto Graphic Design http://www.maifith.com/project-launches/strong-foundations-strong-futures/ Strong Foundations, Strong Futures is a new web based petition asking the Government of Ontario to pay their repair bills, and fund the capital backlog after 5 years of refusing to fund the backlog of hundreds of millions of dollars…

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