Archive for the 'User Experience' Category
Not all browsers are equal and some are less equal than others
0 Comments Published by yusufg March 31st, 2008 in User Experience, WebServerThe title is a misquote of George Orwell’s quote from Animal Farm
All animals are equal - but some animals are more equal than others
We tend to think of browsers as a utility and don’t really care what version it is when viewing a web page
Unfortunately, the most common browser (and probably the one [...]
Mumineen.org has opened a Twitter account which can be seen here:
http://www.twitter.com/mumineen
What is Twitter, you may ask? Here is the answer from the Twitter FAQ:
Twitter is a service for friends, family, and co–workers to communicate and stay connected through the exchange of quick, frequent answers to one simple question: What are you doing?
Twiter works as [...]
Syndicate with Javascript
1 Comment Published by Mumineen.org Team July 26th, 2007 in User ExperienceMumineen.org offers the ability to syndicate its content to other websites or blogs with Javascript. All that’s required for you to do is to cut and paste some HTML onto your site. Your content will stay current, updating the same second we update ours.
Mumineen.org website transitions
1 Comment Published by Mumineen.org Team May 25th, 2007 in User ExperienceThe Mumineen.org team is in the process of making changes to the infrastructure that powers our site. The benefits are a centralized engine for processing akhbar and news, and increased use of RSS feeds to power the front page. We have also made enhancements to the salaat timing code and will be introducing a new [...]
After our server meltdown, we’re taking a hard look at what direction our services should take in the future. We know what we like to see, but at the same time we know we’re not representative of those who visit our site. We’d really like to get some feedback from our readers. What parts of [...]
alternative to click and wait for audio video content
4 Comments Published by Mumineen.org Team January 22nd, 2006 in User ExperienceIn a previous post, we identified that our userbase wants to download content such as audio and video of various miqats and of Aqa Maula (TUS) to their local machine. It’s only community sites such as Sautul Iman who want to stream their content due to their need to protect their IP and their revenue [...]
getting community audio cd information into online databases
2 Comments Published by Mumineen.org Team January 21st, 2006 in User ExperienceOur community the Dawoodi Bohras regularly publishes CD’s whether they are from Sautul Iman or CD’s published by various zakereens or even audio CD’s containing nasihaats such as “Allah Taala na Hamd’, ‘Biraadar tu Nasihaat sun’.
What we lack is information about the tracks on the CD’s being published to sites such as Gracenote and FreeDB [...]
streaming downloading and all that jazz
0 Comments Published by Mumineen.org Team January 21st, 2006 in User ExperienceOur community, the Dawoodi Bohras have a rich and varied oral tradition which is expressed in the forms of qasidas, marthiyas, naats, munajaats and the recital of Quran-e-Majeed. Over the years, we have tried to aggregate examples of our oral tradition and made them available at our audio site.
On our audio site, at present [...]
Impact of latest Sober virus
0 Comments Published by Mumineen.org Team December 4th, 2005 in MailServer, User ExperienceExtract of mail traffic summary
Per-Day Traffic Summary
date received delivered deferred bounced rejected
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Nov 20 2005 83 22 [...]
Plain(text) Simple
2 Comments Published by Mumineen.org Team October 10th, 2005 in MailServer, User ExperienceWhen you have an important message to convey (or perhaps a not so important one), it’s all too easy to fire up your text editor and send out email with fancy fonts and lots of bright colours. Why not attach an illustrative image or PowerPoint presentation for good measure? It just makes the email as [...]
