how do u want to see islammessage board

[naseeha]

as salaamu alaikum wa rahmatullah

hmmmmm....

I think that islammessage is well done, from our discussions, i think it has grown alot in the past years...

Alhamdulillah, i think that the good thing about this board is that it is approached by the moderators with much more hikmah than the other boards that i have been to...

now let me give my views on the question

the thread is entitled:<i>how to do u want to see islammessage</i>

in your post you said:

In this thread I want u all members to give us feed back on how u want to see this board

these are two different questions...

the first (i.e. the thread starter) is general asking about islammessage as a whole and

the second is specific to this discussion forum...

wa lillahil hamd....

anyways...

to the first question i have no suggestions... quite frankly i think you are doing and excellent job and i commend you as such for that as well as the dedication that i have seen... maybe our sites can even "partner up"

to the second question about the board specifically... i too have no suggestions because of the same reasons

<b>HOWEVER</b>

I have a suggestion for that deals with the actual dataflow and presentation of the board <b>in relation to the site as a whole</b>

personally when i come to the site as a member i see the board as being seperate from the actual site...

the site itself www.islamsms.com has so much great information such as <i>the translation of bayhaqui's works (he he)</i>

i see that the board itself (i.e. www.islamsms.com/bb/index.php ) as has a banner above that links to the main site... ( www.islamsms.com)

i also see that the actual islammessage homepage doesnt have a link to the board... if it does have any links then it is very hard to come by... visitors have to actually know that you have a discussion board and they will search the home page for the link to it... the only thing that links the home page to the forum is the links to the <b>individual posts NOT the forum index page</b>

after drawing your attention to these things let me give my contribution...

i suggest that you have more dataflow between the site itself as well as the board so that members such as my self wouldnt see the site and the board as being two seperate entities (in essence) maybe you could put a good link on the home page that could capture the visitors eyes

maybe you could also put a link somewhere in the discussion forum that sends the visitors straight to you articles....

for instance... in the topic "islam" you could put a link somewhere to articles that deals with topics of islamic fiqh...

and

in th topic "new muslims" maybe you can put links to the articles that would be relevant to them etc...

there are many other ways to increase this dataflow that i speak of... just sit and brainstorm and alot would come out...

i hope you understand the direction that i am coming from... and i am fully confident that the owners of this site can be successul in this insha allah..

i really hope that my suggestion helped i tried my best to go in to as much detail as possible....

ma' salaamah

oh yeah... here is a suggestion.... put a banner to www.naseeha.com on your home page <i>HEHEHEHHEHEHEHE Jus kiddin with you muslimah hehe</i>