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April 9, 2008

MuslimMatters

For those of you tired of seeing the muslimmatters is down for maintenance message, we have good news:

A brand new MuslimMatters! Here’s a rundown of some of our new features:

Archives page to fulfill your daily nostalgia for past articles.
Contact page to let us know your thoughts, comments, maybe some guest submissions, and of course, all your unanswered fatwa questions (just kidding, we are not a fatwa service).
New ABOUT page with information on how to stay up to date with the site.
AUTHOR PAGES with unique RSS feeds!! Go to the home page, and check out the authors on the left side. Now you can make sure to get all the articles from your favorite writers, and see some cool pictures :)
New front page – You can see the latest posts from our main categories now featured on the front page. Recent posts also display up top and in the sidebar. Our active content also displays in a top posts heading in the right sidebar.
CAROUSEL – check out the carousel under the featured posts. Click the arrows on the sides to check out some of our featured content!
Related content – when you read posts now, you will see more from that category and more from that author displayed in the right side.
Oh, and a new GOOGLE search in the sidebar to quickly locate posts.

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You will now notice a new iPhone friendly theme when you load the site. No more need to resize the page and turn your phone or ipod to the side, a new theme will display to make the site readable.

Also, make sure to drop the MM bookmark on your homescreen, we have a new iPhone icon ready to add next to the Stocks and Weather icons that you use so much.

PODCASTS?!?!

Look for an official announcement coming within the next week. We will be starting a MuslimMatters PODCAST with audio and video. If you’ve enjoyed our khutbahs and videos, make sure you subscribe and catch the latest. We will be podcasting out all unique MM content that has been posted on our site, and we will also be rolling out some new audios as well so stay tuned :)

But wait – There’s MORE!

New Associate Writer!

We are also pleased to announce that Siraaj Muhammad of StrangersOasis has joined on as an associate writer. Look for a new series of posts from him coming very soon as well.

We hope you like the new site, and the new features. You can also look forward to some amazing articles coming in the future that will insha’Allah set the bar high for Muslim online media.

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40 Comments

islam blog

April 9, 2008 at 5:38 AM

Alf mabrook on the new look. Much better.

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mummyjaan

April 9, 2008 at 5:45 AM

Excellent!

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Irum Sarfaraz

April 9, 2008 at 9:53 AM

Very very nice indeed….!

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DocMK

April 9, 2008 at 9:58 AM

this looks fantastic, Masha’Allah!!!

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Irum Sarfaraz

April 9, 2008 at 10:00 AM

One small suggestion…can you make the text fit the size of the box with the main post? It doesn’t quite fit and reads SLIMMATTERS. The MM is also cropped off. If the text can be made a little bit smaller it would fit better. And anyway being MUSLIM matters more than being SLIM !! :)

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Omer

April 9, 2008 at 10:20 AM

I love the designed. May ALlah (Swt) Reard the one who did the redesign with much khair in this life and the hereafter!! Ameen The logo is is amazing!!! but whats up with the tail at the end of the 2nd M in MM? :) j/k hehe

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veiled_muslimah

April 9, 2008 at 10:29 AM

assalam alaykum,

the new site redesign and changes look awesome mashallah. :)

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inexplicabletimelessness

April 9, 2008 at 10:34 AM

MashaAllah!!!!!

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Zainab

April 9, 2008 at 10:36 AM

Fresh new look! It’s great, Mashallah!

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Manas Shaikh

April 9, 2008 at 11:01 AM

Nice look. Mash’Allah.

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Talha Syed

April 9, 2008 at 11:07 AM

Nice refresh!

And I can’t wait for the podcasts. I’ve waited years for a good Islamic podcast, and my prayers may finally be answered!

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Dawud Israel

April 9, 2008 at 11:51 AM

This will take some getting used too…but it feels very neat and organized, masha Allah la quwatta illah billah.
But of course I use the same wordpress theme that MM used to have so… :P

I’m wondering which genius thought of the motto, “Because Muslims Matter”? Was that you Amad, hmmm?
Ya could’ve taken a picture of Urkel from Family Matters and given him a topi or something…the actor who played Urkel was Muslim btw…

Also great to hear uncle Siraaj is involved. Masha Allah, this brother is so awesome, if you need to win an argument online and get lazy–just tell Siraaj to handle it and he’ll shut them down! Now THAT is what you call a valuable ASSET! :)

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Amad

April 9, 2008 at 11:54 AM

Dawud, it was Sr. Ruth’s idea on the motto.. not sure if your “genius” comment was praise or sarcasm ;) ??

What do you people think about the logo?

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Ahmed

April 9, 2008 at 12:12 PM

Hotness !, mashallah

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Gohar

April 9, 2008 at 1:22 PM

Salaam

Still really wanting an edit facility for our posts. Benefits should be obvious.

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AnonyMouse

April 9, 2008 at 1:32 PM

Masha’Allah, it’s awesome! Very spiffy indeed :D
(I have to say I still love the “Discourses” motto, though…)

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Gohar

April 9, 2008 at 1:45 PM

I agree with the above comment regarding the “Discourses” motto.

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MR

April 9, 2008 at 3:45 PM

Alhamdulillah!

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saad

April 9, 2008 at 4:28 PM

Finally, looking sharp mashallah.
You will soon be getting advertisment’s Inshallah.

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Nadia

April 9, 2008 at 4:57 PM

Mashallah it looks great! Good job guys!

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kd

April 9, 2008 at 5:00 PM

Very professional mashaAllah….keep up the great work inshaAllah!

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Charles

April 9, 2008 at 5:33 PM

The redesign is excellent! On the tagline, I would prefer the “Discourses …” one because it says what the site is about. The present tagline is “cute” but says nothing about the purpose of the site.

On a sidenote, in Safari, “Society” in the menu breaks to a second row instead of remaining with the others on one row. I don’t have that problem with Firefox, Camino, Opera, or Flock.

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Ibrahim

April 9, 2008 at 7:57 PM

Very nice , mashaAllah

I think it will be better if you replace the aqeedah blog with http://saheefah.org/ because aqeedah blog is incorporated in saheefah.

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Solomon2

April 9, 2008 at 8:22 PM

Pretty good, though it takes getting used to . Some people may find the font size for comments too small.

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Dawud Israel

April 9, 2008 at 9:49 PM

Sarcasm = Praise

I’m trying to flatter you guys here !

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nuqtah

April 9, 2008 at 10:30 PM

nice look.

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ruth nasrullah

April 9, 2008 at 11:10 PM

Hmmm…was that me who came up with Because Muslims Matter? Genius indeed ;) but that was a year ago and I don’t even remember it.

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FearAllah

April 9, 2008 at 11:43 PM

Please, whatever happens, no advertisements insha’Allah!

but the rest is good masha’Allah………hope I get used to it :)

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ibnabeeomar

April 10, 2008 at 1:01 AM

charles are you on a mac? i have safari on my XP pc and it loaded ok. jazakallahu khayr

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Anisa

April 10, 2008 at 1:23 AM

Asalaamu Alaaikum
TabarakALLAH
it’s so beautiful!!! Alhamdulilah new design is top notch, A-W-E-S-O-M-E just like the content & authors of this blog =)
Keep up the good work! Insha’ALLAH
Wa’alaykum Asalaam

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Charles

April 10, 2008 at 7:38 AM

Yes, I’m on a mac. Actually, right now, it’s loading okay. So I don’t know what the problem was yesterday.

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Amad

April 10, 2008 at 8:52 AM

salam.. jazakumAllahkhair to everyone for the feedback. You can blame all this good work on Omar ;)

“FearAllah”… I think advertisements is a natural progression. In today’s world, we need funds to cover expenses and more importantly to further propogate and market.

I should add then that this venture is 100% non-profit dawah project. And if we do advertise or seek donations, the funds will be funneled 100% into the site’s maintenance, upgrades, marketing and any other MM-related projects/efforts inshallah. So, if there is anyone out there who interested in advertising on MM or wants to donate, feel free to contact us using “Contact Us” :) … so we can get a head-start on this inshallah.

May Allah keep our intentions pure for His sake only.

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AbuAbdAllah

April 10, 2008 at 11:52 AM

bismillah. mashaAllah, a site worth reading becomes a site worth experiencing. :)

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ibnabeeomar

April 10, 2008 at 12:23 PM

WOW – abuabdallah – i think thats the best complement i have heard jazakallahu khayr!

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Darren

April 10, 2008 at 12:29 PM

Wonderful work on the customizations guys, it looks great!

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Ahmed

April 10, 2008 at 2:39 PM

Mash’Allah and congratulations to the MM team. I’ve been reading your blog for sometime but have not been commenting. Very happy to see a quality Muslim blog with engaging topics. Keep up the good work, you have a dedicated reader.

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Reem

April 11, 2008 at 6:02 PM

this is way too confusing. it looks cool, very cool indeed. but i do not no where to go to see the new posts and stuff, but never mind, its cool

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