News
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…
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,
…
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…
Dec
2007
Understanding Web Design
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…
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…
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Ever worry you’ll arrive at work to find that your swivel chair has been replaced by a super-intelligent software appliance that can create seven user-centered websites in a single CPU cycle?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…
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…
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.…
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
…
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…
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…
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…