Dear friends, AssalamOAlaikum. As you all know, we at urduweb.org are striving to promote Urdu on the net. Our aim is to provide a common platform to the Urdu community for doing collaborative efforts for promoting Urdu and we do need a combined effort to achieve our goals. Recently there … Continue reading
Welcome to the new location of our blog. Bear with us as we tidy up and fix things here and there but this should be (mostly) working. Now, we have the following set up on Urduweb: * Urdu Mehfil, a phpBB forum in Urdu * Urdu Planet, an aggregator of … Continue reading
I was remiss in my “last post”:http://urdu.zackvision.com/archives/2005/06/001317.html in not thanking “Nabeel”:http://simunaqv.blogspot.com/ and “Asif”:http://www.sovereign-renditions.info/ for their help, both monetary and otherwise. Now that we have setup hosting, let’s start the process of moving and creating content. My ideas are given below. Feel free to disagree or suggest anything else. * *Urdu … Continue reading
While the voting goes on about the domain name, let us consider the tasks we need to do once the domain is available. The following sites need to be moved to the new domain: # This blog, “Urdu Blogging”:http://urdu.zackvision.com: We need to switch the blog to “WordPress”:http://www.wordpress.org. Asif, can we … Continue reading
The weekend is approaching and that could mean a slight surge of activities in UrduWiki. I have been thinking about the further strategy of improving and promoting UrduWiki. I strongly feel that people with development and programming skills should also join their efforts together for creating better tool support for … Continue reading
I think that we should do something like a simple guide to write plain HTML Urdu pages. It would help some beginners to understand what they need to do with their blogs to make them Urdu enabled. Like something to explain character encoding and doctype,dir and lang attributes. There are … Continue reading
I was thinking about this whole thing last night and there is something I am a little worried about. I think that in our efforts to popularize Urdu blogs we should try to offer solutions which are standard compliance. Like here in this blog Zack is using post titles in … Continue reading
I started blogging in Urdu “almost a year ago”:http://www.zackvision.com/weblog/archives/entry/000677.html. I haven’t written much in Urdu, but it has been a good experience. Two of my posts about “blogging”:http://www.zackvision.com/weblog/archives/entry/000684.html in “Urdu”:http://www.zackvision.com/weblog/archives/entry/000677.html have been among the most popular posts here. The Urdu blogosphere is extremely small right now. There aren’t even a … Continue reading