Author Archives for Besim Bruncaj, Graphic Designer & Teaholic

New Answers Design

Posted by Besim Bruncaj, Graphic Designer & Teaholic on February 17th, 2008

As salaamu ‘alaykum
Last week we announced the launch of our redesign in our homepage, academy, and eCampus pages. Alhamdulillah today we are pleased to announce a long-overdue new Answers redesign. This is just the first stage of what we hope, insha’Allah, will be huge improvements in our Answers service as we have a lot of […]

New Site Design

Posted by Besim Bruncaj, Graphic Designer & Teaholic on February 6th, 2008

Bismillahir Rahmanir Rahim
As salaamu ‘alaykum
For over a year we’ve been looking to come up with a comprehensive redesign that will be able to tie in all pages of the site and bring the site up to date. After alot of time, effort, usability tests, surveys, feedback and most importantly openings from Allah we are blessed […]

New Registration System

Posted by Besim Bruncaj, Graphic Designer & Teaholic on February 6th, 2008

Assalamu ‘alaykum wa rahmatullah,
Those of you who have tried registering in the past few weeks would have noticed that the registration system has been updated. We received many student concerns about the usability of the old system, and alhamdulillah after the new system has gone up, students have had a much easier time registering.
If you […]

How to Reduce Memory Usage in Firefox

Posted by Besim Bruncaj, Graphic Designer & Teaholic on December 24th, 2007

ThinkTechno has a great post on reducing memory usage in Firefox. Since the 2.0 release many have found Firefox to drain their system’s memory.
Being that about 30% of SunniPath visitors & students use Firefox so I pray that this is of benefit.

The Kept University

Posted by Besim Bruncaj, Graphic Designer & Teaholic on November 30th, 2007

The Kept University. An article about how corporations are increasingly wielding influence over universities and their research.

Change the Way You Change the World: A Model for Wide-Scale

Posted by Besim Bruncaj, Graphic Designer & Teaholic on November 17th, 2007

Change the Way You Change the World: A Model for Wide-Scale Social Change (a pdf from ChangeThis.com).

Using Habitat for Humanity as a dynamic example, authors of Forces for Good, Crutchfield and Grant, present this manifesto on what high-impact nonprofits do to achieve wide-scale social change. These methods are insightful for all organizations, including for-profits and […]

Announcing a 3-Week Online Hajj Course

Posted by Besim Bruncaj, Graphic Designer & Teaholic on November 12th, 2007

As salaamu ‘alaykum
SunniPath is honored to announce that Shaykh Sohail Hanif will be teaching a 3-Week Online Hajj Course titled “Hajj: The Journey of a Lifetime.” This year we will be offering group viewing discounts for Hajj groups.
View the announcement here:
http://www.sunnipath.com/Outreach/2007-Fall/071106-HajjCourse.html.
If you know of anyone going to a Hajj click here to send them information […]

The Dunning-Kruger Effect

Posted by Besim Bruncaj, Graphic Designer & Teaholic on June 26th, 2007

The Dunning-Kruger Effect: “the phenomenon whereby people who have little knowledge systematically
think that they know more than others who have much more knowledge”.
“Across 4 studies, the authors found that participants scoring in the
bottom quartile on tests of humor, grammar, and logic grossly
overestimated their test performance and ability. Although test scores
put them in the 12th percentile, […]

Email Cleanup

Posted by Besim Bruncaj, Graphic Designer & Teaholic on May 29th, 2007

بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم
As salaamu ‘alaykum
The latest project to launch is our new email management system. For our students and visitors the most relevant part of this is that you can now subscribe and unsubscribe from our email announcement list with ease:
Subscribe to SunniPath’s Emails
Unsubscribe from SunniPath’s Email list.
Insha’Allah we’ll make sure to include the […]

New SunniPath Homepage Design

Posted by Besim Bruncaj, Graphic Designer & Teaholic on May 25th, 2007

As salaamu ‘alaykum
Alhamdulillah, after some hard work, several iterations, and plenty of tea we are excited to announce (in case you missed it yesterday) the new SunniPath homepage. Here are some of the new features and some of the thinking behind it all:

Aesthetics -

As we mentioned in the New Course Catalog System post we are […]