DuSunnah Online Bookshop

The DuSunnah Bookshop will shortly go officially online. This new Shop is an extension of the Masjid Daar us Sunnah in London. From a developer’s point of view, the shop is a challenge in as much as it has to fit into an existing online infrastructure. This post will show a possible concept about how to interlink various social networks with different websites and script for the purpose of serving the community in the most efficient and accurate way.

Dusunnah Bookshop

Let’s start with an inventory:

1. Dusunnah.com is a Joomla based CMS which up to now was the online presence of the Masjid in its own right.

2. Dusunnahbookshop.com is a new X-Cart based online shop.

3. Dusunnahbookshop.com/blog  is a WordPress based blog under construction.

DuSunnah has built a solid presence on Social Networks such as Twitter, Facebook and YouTube as well as a Newsgroup, reaching out to thousands of friends and subscribers.

Time has come to consolidate all these efforts and achievements and to streamline the online activity by integrating all pieces and bits into an efficient communication and publishing concept, targeting and expanding the existing communities.

While Joomla has for a long time been recognized as the most powerful Content Management System, we at Semiomantics have always felt that its performance is way inferior compared to WordPress when it comes to search engines. For this reason we have always privileged WordPress, ready to make concessions on the CMS side; WordPress has made and is making progress on the CMS front and with WP 4 we are expecting namely better media management as well as a more user-friendly admin area.

Joomla may be easier to use for non professional users, however it lacks the real power to gain high visibility we can achieve with WordPress. I guess Joomla users are good customers of all sorts of ads networks, while Semiomantics is specialized to build WP based sites which show on the left side of Google top 10 search returns, saving thus thousands of advertising bucks.

While there are some developments available to integrate WordPress into Joomla as a Joomla component, for example by Corephp.com, we prefer the flexibility and power of a self-hosted WordPress site separate from Joomla as Semiomantics Optimization for high performance conflicts with Joomla and would thus reduce the power of WordPress.

Having said the above, the WP extension by Corephp remains a brilliant and cheap solution to improve Joomla.

In as much as our publishing concept is concerned, we keep both sites separate, on separate servers and we create the link using RSS Feeds and technology, whereas we will stream the Joomla content into WordPress and use WordPress as the striking arm for SE targets.

When combining WordPress with e-commerce we always have preferred to separate the active WordPress site from the shopping site, even when using WP e-commerce plugins. The reason is simple: the purpose of both sites is not the same: a shop must provide a smooth shopping experience, while WP must first of all perform and gain high visibility on Search Engines.

The architecture of shops is not designed to reach high impact on search engines, they are a sort of a content management system for products integrating check-out and payment gateways. These features require configuration which conflicts with what we consider optimized semantic configuration as used on Semiomantics powered WordPress scripts.

We deal therefore with X-cart as we do with Joomla, we create a product stream targeting WordPress.

As you can deduct from the above, WordPress is the central element in our Publishing and Marketing strategy. The main reasons for this are:

• the powerful optimization by Semiomantics
• the aggregating possibilities of all content produced on all sites and networks
• the publishing power to reach Google top 10 rankings
• the publishing power to reach out for social networks
• the easy sharing of any kind of media, namely also YouTube
• the possibility to keep a maximum of traffic in stead of giving it away to third parties

The use of Semiomantics powered WordPress replaces to a large extent marketing budgets for Google Ads for example as we can bring our content and products right to the top of Google. The WordPress based site will be linked directly with all own sites as well as with the newsgroup and all social networks. This simplifies the work and publishing flow and assures optimized publishing.

The described concept has proven to be highly efficient for our own purpose as well as for our customers. Our publishing and marketing networks are custom built and fine tuned for the purpose of each respective customer’s needs and purpose, whereas we aim to provide time and money saving solutions achieving thus optimized productivity.

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Daar-us-Sunnah WP Mosque Theme

Designing a Website for a Mosque is a challenge, namely a cultural one. The beauty of Muslim religious art and the spiritual guidance by the customer need to flow into the web design. The site’s functions needs to take into account a defined set of rules to respect.

We are right now facing this challenge as we are custom tailoring a website for the Daar-us-Sunnah Mosque in London. The Semiomantics Site Smith is developing a framework in the respect of Muslim culture, tradition and spirituality.

This project is sponsored by Global Sports US, London.

WP Best Mosque Theme for Daar-us-Sunnah

The first draft of the WP Best Mosque Theme shows already some of the features:

The features include:

• Brand new Showcase Slider
• Full Width single page layout
• Drop-down for Categories and children pages
• Footer and sidebar widgets + custom Ad widget
• Stylish headers without SEO loss
• Option for image logo or stylish dynamic text logo
• Automatic post lengths
• Threaded Comments, 7 deep
• Gravatar and widget ready
• Tableless code
• Cross Browser Compatible
• Wordpress 2.9.2 Compatible
• Special Theme options control panel for easy customization
• Over 50 easy customization options

WP Best Mosque Screen-shots

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Author: Yorgo Nestoridis, Media Marketing & Publishing, Founder of YORGOO Publishing, YORGOO Press and Semiomantics. If you enjoyed reading the above, please consider following future tips and strategies by RSS reader, Email delivery, or Kindle subscription.