Charlie & Co.

Updates

Welcome to the new site!

I just wanted to write a quick note to welcome you to the new Charlie & Company website. We hope you like it!
Fear not, the portfolio will be growing very quickly, I just started this site Friday March 11 { read more }


Slicing & Coding

Have you designed a spectacular website in photoshop, illustrator or fireworks and are stuck trying to find someone to change it into CSS/XHTML code for you? Look no further!
Maifith Design sliced and dices sites and produces clean XHTML and { read more }


The simplest solution is the right one.

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 IIS and Apache running, which is { read more }


Do I need a CMS?

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 { read more }


Dealing with ugly Link Underlining

We pride outselves on having great design skills.  But you cannot just throw usability and accessability out the window when trying to acheive a good design.
I recently read an article at Usability Post about the 7 most common usability { read more }


_gat is undefined: New Analytics Code

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 { read more }


Essential WordPress Steps

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 { read more }


CMS Installation Service

UPDATE – March 2011: We no longer recommend Joomla as a CMS. It’s cumbersome and all functions Joomla has can easily be handled by WordPress in it’s latest iteration.
We’re starting a new service that will allow you to get { read more }


Custom WordPress Plugins

Maifith has now completed work on two separate plug-ins for WordPress.  One being a plugin that you can control the flow of an XML file (for flash input) for a photo gallery based on your needs.
The second being a { read more }


I Wonder What This Button Does

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 { read more }


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 { read more }


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