News

31
Mar
2008

Wordpress 2.5

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…

25
Mar
2008

Findability, Orphan of the Web Design Industry

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,

7
Dec
2007

Magento Online Store

Varien, of LA, has developed a new eCommerce suite using the Zend Framework and PHP5.  Two technologies that are popular in the programming industry at the moment.

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

5
Dec
2007

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…

26
Jun
2007

12 Lessons for Those Afraid of CSS and Standards ~ alistapart.com

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…

13
Jun
2007

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Ever worry you’ll arrive at work to find that your swivel chair has been replaced by a super-intelligent software appliance that can create seven user-centered websites in a single CPU cycle?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…

11
Jun
2007

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…

8
May
2007

Google Analytics makes a big 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.…

13
Apr
2007

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

13
Apr
2007

GTA Business News Launched!

After 6 months of development and preparation from the staff and owners of this prestigious business newspaper, the website has been launched. While the first paper copy of the newspaper will be available on newsstands across Toronto on the 21st…

2
Apr
2007

New community web portal Launched

We have officially launched a community portal for the kind folks who have purchased a loft or condo at either 60 Bathurst or 60 Niagara in Toronto. The portal was built using Joomla, the Community Builder plug-in and the Joomla-SMF…

20
Mar
2007

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…