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Muslim Business Workshop Update (With Photos)
We are delighted to announce that the workshop we organised last week (full details are here) went very well. Everybody who participated in the workshop left very satisfied alhamdulillah. It’s been such a wonderful experience to meet different Muslim business representatives, share their thoughts and network with them, mashallah.
The following Muslim businesses have participated in [...]
Muslim Business Workshop: New ways of promoting your business online
Want to hit back the recession and market your business effectively?
Have you ever heard about “Social Media Marketing”, “Facebook”, “Twitter”, “Blogs”, “SEO” , “Google Adwords”?
Have you ever wondered how they could affect your business?
Then book yourself in for one of our business workshops to find out the answers and enrich your knowledge before applying [...]
What is Islamic Insurance or Takaful?
On my previous post I touched upon Islamic Insurance. Today I wanted to share this diagram that I got from Islamic Finance Roadshow yesterday. The diagram beautifully explains how the conventional insurance and Islamic Insurance (Takaful) work. As the proverb says “a picture is worth thousand words”
Courtesy of Salaam Halal Insurance
What is RSS and why would I use it?
These days whichever site you go to, you may see this icon or something similar to it:
You can see it even in our blog . Look at the top right hand corner! Some of us may know what it is and how to utilize it but the majority don’t, believe me they [...]
What Is Twitter?
You probably heard about Twitter. If not, keep on reading
Twitter is an online service for everyone: friends, colleagues, customers and families to communicate through the exchange of quick, short (up to 140 characters) and frequent answers to one single question:
What Are You Doing?
People (as well as businesses) use Twitter to “follow” their [...]
Internet statistics and trends for 2008
Ever wondered whether the Internet is evolving, how many domain names were registered, how many emails were sent etc. in 2008? Here is the compilation (courtesy of www.pingdom.com) for your attention.
Email
1.3 billion – The number of email users worldwide.
210 billion – The number of emails sent per day in 2008.
70% – The percentage of emails [...]
What is better: Organic Listing or Pay Per Click (PPC)?
Some of us may have heard the term “Organic Listing”. The Organic Listing is to appear on the search results of the search engine natuarally i.e. by not paying a single penny. To illustrate, if someone types in and searches “Muslim Web Design Company” keyword on the Google, the Google will bring up all the [...]
Why Is Google So Special?
When an Internet user is unable, or unwilling, to guess your website address they will use a search engine to find you. Now, of all the website visits conducted in the UK and US that were immediately preceded by a search engine search, Google is responsible for the majority. Google is by far the most [...]
How UK Law Sees Web Accessibility
There has been much speculation about the legislation introduced in the UK, which is intended to ensure that websites are accessible to people with disabilities.
The Disability Discrimination Act does not mention web site design.
Part III of the Disability Discrimination Act refers to the provision of goods, facilities and services, yet does not mention websites. You [...]
What is a Favicon and why would I need it?
What Is a Favicon?
A favicon (short for favorites icon and pronounced fav-eye-con), also known as a page icon, an urlicon, website icon, shortcut icon or bookmark icon is a 16×16 pixel square icon (image) associated with a particular website or webpage. You can see the Favicons nearly on all professionally [...]
