news and plans
The site is still being tested and expanded. Here’s a list of what has been going on:
- Monday; November 22, 2010
- 1:42 PM – A lot of changes have been made behind the scenes to facilitate expanding and trouble-shooting the site.
- Wednesday; December 17, 2008
- 12:30 PM – The misc page now covers a wider range of Hanafi zakat values.
- 11:10 AM – changed 4.25 to 4.235 for gold nisab calculation. Older values have not been adjusted.
- 10:00 AM – added link to iZakah application; fixed AJAX.
- Thursday; October 2, 2008
- 5:00 PM – added the misc page which includes a summary list of fiqh issues which involve dinar or dirham, along with the value in USD.
- 12:46 PM – fixed import problems from the data sources and reimported daily nisab values that were in the queue.
- Saturday; May 17, 2008
- 1:49 PM – tables improved
- 10:14 AM – restructuring: no more "About Us"; added instead a colophon, news
- 9:55 AM – an AJAX control (that deserves double mention).
- 9:50 AM – better bread crumbs. An AJAX control.
- 6:16 AM – revamped the front page.
- 3:30 AM – added RSS icons. The site needs are well-thought out layout. This will come.
- Friday; May 16, 2008
- 3:07 AM – added RSS feed for major world currencies, to be updated once per day.
- 2:30 AM – RSS feeds generated automatically; people will now grab a static feed. WIll handle load better.
- 2:00 AM – no more repeat values in the ‘live’ or ‘current’ data.
- 1:00 AM – fixed titles so nothing competes with the page title; About us, Contact us fixed.
- Thursday; May 15, 2008
- 11:59 PM – fixed font so will work on iPhone.
Future plans
- Display times in GMT
- Charts
- More history
- Links to online material about zakat