Maifith Design inc 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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Maifith was contracted by Garner’s Source for Sports to create a custom shopping cart solution that fit the needs of their company.  We chose Wordpress as a base platfom for the store with its excellent content management abilities.  With…

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Download this is 1920 x 1200

Download this at 1280 x 800

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Creative, cutting-edge and great to work with. That’s how we describe Maifith Designs and their fine work on our website. Apart from designing an eye-catching site that gets rave reviews from everyone who sees it, they ensured

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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…

]]> http://www.maifith.com/news/the-simplest-solution-is-usually-the-right-one/feed 0 Do I need a CMS? http://www.maifith.com/news/do-i-need-a-cms http://www.maifith.com/news/do-i-need-a-cms#comments Tue, 06 Jan 2009 02:57:02 +0000 Toronto Graphic Design http://www.maifith.com/?p=234 We get asked this question frequently enough.

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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She wanted the site’s front page to resemble a magazine, but the inside to resemble a normal eCommerce…

]]> http://www.maifith.com/work/website-design/gymagic-inc/feed 0 Essential Wordpress Steps http://www.maifith.com/news/wordpress-essentials http://www.maifith.com/news/wordpress-essentials#comments Wed, 24 Sep 2008 12:41:33 +0000 Toronto Graphic Design http://www.maifith.com/?p=204 A lot of clients ask us for our most common practices and how to do menial Wordpress tasks.  Not to say that these tasks are not important, they are just simple to do and can be done by anyone.

There…

]]> http://www.maifith.com/news/wordpress-essentials/feed 0 CMS Installation Service http://www.maifith.com/news/cms-installation http://www.maifith.com/news/cms-installation#comments Wed, 24 Sep 2008 01:36:15 +0000 Toronto Graphic Design http://www.maifith.com/?p=201 We’re starting a new service that will allow you to get a no-hassle website.

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,…

]]> http://www.maifith.com/news/cms-installation/feed 1 We have a new look! http://www.maifith.com/work/website-design/we-have-a-new-look http://www.maifith.com/work/website-design/we-have-a-new-look#comments Mon, 22 Sep 2008 17:00:52 +0000 Toronto Graphic Design http://www.maifith.com/?p=182 It’s been almost 18 months since we last created a new design for our company.  We’ve had a busy year working on various projects and haven’t had time to update our site.  We keep meaning to, but it always gets…

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The second being a…

]]> http://www.maifith.com/news/custom-wordpress-plugins/feed 0 Zenith Property Management http://www.maifith.com/work/website-design/zenith-property-management http://www.maifith.com/work/website-design/zenith-property-management#comments Fri, 22 Aug 2008 16:41:03 +0000 Toronto Graphic Design http://localhost:8888/?p=42 We just completed working on Zenith Property Management.  A company our of south Florida.  This is a basic wordpress site that was completed in less than 1 day.

We created a custom templated based on the clients needs and used…

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]]> http://www.maifith.com/work/eca-south-florida/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 Happiface.com http://www.maifith.com/work/happifacecom http://www.maifith.com/work/happifacecom#comments Fri, 20 Jun 2008 17:05:31 +0000 Toronto Graphic Design http://localhost:8888/?p=47 Sandy Gold, make.up efficianado, recently contacted Maifith Design about upgrading her website to a next generation solution.  Using wordpress 2.5.1, Maifith transformed her blog, www.happiface.com, into a beautiful and easily usable website.

]]> http://www.maifith.com/work/happifacecom/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…

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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 Bliss Holistics http://www.maifith.com/work/bliss-holistics http://www.maifith.com/work/bliss-holistics#comments Mon, 29 Oct 2007 01:34:10 +0000 Toronto Graphic Design http://www.maifith.com/new-clients/bliss-holistics/ Bliss Holistics is an information site created for Michelle. She contacted us with a simple request; for a website with a blog that was easy to update. We chose Wordpress as the content manager/blog tool as it has the most…

]]> http://www.maifith.com/work/bliss-holistics/feed 0 Health Sciences Writing Centre http://www.maifith.com/work/health-sciences-writing-centre http://www.maifith.com/work/health-sciences-writing-centre#comments Wed, 19 Sep 2007 01:34:10 +0000 Toronto Graphic Design http://www.maifith.com/new-clients/health-sciences-writing-centre/ We built and customized the plug-ins for this site quite quickly. We have never created a site quite like this – with 3500 members right from the start. It is a chapter based site utilizing wordpress for its content management…

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