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lightUponLight.Com
10/17/03 at 16:11:35
Assalam ailikum wa rahmatulah!

WE have a new web site (http://www.lightuponlight.com/), hoping to be one of the web site with Islamic Videos on it for free FE SABILILLAH

But we really need help with so many things, design, content, and getting traffic.

What is the best way to go around with these things?

;-)
Re: Need Help & Feedback PLEASE
BroHanif
10/17/03 at 18:28:24
Salaams bro,

Masha-Allah good site, couple of things...
try and breakdown the flash intro into a smaller size or one where you can view it independantly. I'd rather go to a site rather than see the flash demo. I don't know about you but seeing the guys body on the table is is a bit... personal I'd rather keep some aspects of the nasheed very private I personally don't agree that we should portray our dead in such a manner. Its a personal thing so please don't take it to heart brother.

AS for content you may wanna change your template... look at my site and your site not much difference is there www.muslimprofessionals.org.uk its been created by the CMS engine PostNuke whereas yours has been created by PHP-nuke go over to www.templatemonster.com for some cracking deisgns and also download the autotheme from spidean.mckenzie.net and then create a site that is more suited to you, well thats what I'm doing currently.

Do users have the ability to download the video??? When I tried downloading it fired up Real Player a couple of times insted of allowing me to download it. I tried occupation101 ( by the way when is the nx part to this video coming). The costs of streaming are quite high do yo have some sort of revenue generating programme? How do you tackle your costs?

As for generating traffic, place it on google, link it up with other islamic boards, and have some sort of banner exchange. I'd be happy to list your site on mine. Keep up the good work.

Salaams

Hanif
Re: Need Help & Feedback PLEASE
lightUponLight.Com
10/17/03 at 19:49:53
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MashaAllah!

JazakAllahu Khair dear Hanif!

;-) ;-) Real Men Have Beards  ;-)  ;-)
I like that one, and I will definately use it in real life

One of my buddies in University shaved off his beard, wasnt really a beard but more like what you get when u dont shave, but it was at least something..
anyway, I thought of a great thing to say to him, first i was going to say man what happened to your face? you got hit by a truck?? but then i didnt say anything

instead, next time i see him I'll say, :-* SubhanAllah,  last time I saw you, you had the beauty of the Prophet on your face, .. but now its gone..  :'(

JazakAllahu Khair for all the advice Akhi!
I had to make a decision between postNuke and phpNuke and I basically flipped a coin and took phpNuke.. is postNuke any better?

Your site is very nice :) May Allah Reward You

Regarding download? not really i guess, visit http://media.nooralanoor.com/ to download the videos if you want to keep them or share them on kazaa or something.. also you can put them on your site or even link to them directly as right now bandwidth costs are not an issue, but they eventually will be.

Regarding funding, hmm, my idea was to pay for the site using a shop where we sell higher quality versions (dvd/scvd/vcd) of the same streamed lectures for those who can afford it, see http://www.lightuponlight.com/shop/ but its not really up since the site hasnt taken off

Currently paying hostdime.com $6 USD per month for 10gigs bandwith/mo (not even close to 2 gigs used so far)

I signed up for a 90day trial of SubmitNet.Com and I will see if I can get some search engines to rank the site inshaAllah.  They say it takes 8-12 weeks on average to get listed in major engines.. ouch!

Actually I have a link section too, but I need to make it more prominent, I had a few sites such as jannah.org link to me, but its not really making a difference, 1 or 2 hits a day :( but everything helps..

I would be happier if these bros  ;-) and sisters  :-) just link to the video directly (at least for now) to make them more publicly available

www.occupation101.com for more details on the trailer

regarding templatemonster, looks expensive! phew! and that other site didnt load?

the flash intro was made by... http://www.biznaseducation.com/koko2003/

abdullah
Re: Need Help & Feedback PLEASE
BroHanif
10/18/03 at 09:40:58
Salaams,

Just a couple of points bro... as I don't have much time right now..
[quote]I signed up for a 90day trial of SubmitNet.Com and I will see if I can get some search engines to rank the site inshaAllah.  They say it takes 8-12 weeks on average to get listed in major engines.. ouch![/quote]
Try to get your site listed on Google, AltaVista and other engines, these two offer free website listing services. You also need to consider what your meta tags are I think you can administer this in PHP Nuke Administration Panel. Once that is done, you then you determine how your search or indexs should be based upon for example if someone does a search for Islamic Videos what would they find?..
Also get your site listed with as many sites as possible from streaming videos to Islamic videos it'll help.

[quote]regarding templatemonster looks expensive! phew! [/quote]
No bro its not that much, just buy the template for the lowest price and then tweek it to how ever you want it. Don't go for the unique price!.

Let me know how you get on...

Salaams

Hanif


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