DUBAI, 14 October — Horizons, a leading Internet software and content management solution provider in the region, has launched the new website of Dr. Yousef Al-Qaradawi (www.qaradawi.net) using the advanced technologies of PublishArabia.com, the online publishing solution that enables organizations to create and publish dynamic, interactive websites in Arabic.
Horizons originally created Qaradawi.net about four years ago as a nonprofit project that aims to convey Dr. Qaradawi’s moderate and contemporary Islamic views to the whole world through the Internet, which is becoming a more dominant communication medium in this era. The website has won several awards and was chosen as one of the best and most popular Islamic websites on the Net, according to a press release.
With the new launch, the website makes quantum leaps in the technologies it employs to enable users to easily browse and search its large contents. The simple and flexible site design gives a rich user experience. In addition, readers can speak up their minds on important issues using interaction element like live votes and discussion groups. What really distinguishes the new site is the way of categorizing and organizing its rich content, which include Qaradawi’s speeches, books, TV programs, news and activities, and other valuable Qaradawi creations of the past decades.
For example, users can browse books using a tree that contains the chapters and section of a book and move from one chapter to another with one click, while retaining the larger picture of the book using the tree. This is one of the modern ways of presenting books on the web.
Users can also listen to audio recordings of Qaradawi’s Friday speeches, which are made available on the site shortly after he makes them, and they can dig into the large archive of many years of Ramadan lectures and speeches on special occasion, in addition to Qaradawi’s literary and poetic creations.
Muhammad Takriti, Horizons’ CEO, said: "PublishArabia has enabled Qaradawi’s site to make all these features possible through a user-friendly system that is used by the site team to create and publish content without any need for technical experience." PublishArabia’s client list includes a number of Arabic newspapers, educational institutions, sports clubs, small businesses and nonprofit sites.
