customizing groups

[Alex 小正正]

Long time ago I wrote this UNIQUE CLASS NAME FOR EVERY PAGE. Maybe it's hard to achieve. But it very necessary for groups.  Then every group can easily has it's own special style or functions. Every group must be something different. And I hate use javascript to do CSS things. The performance issue is very serious. 

Or Ning has better ideas for customizing groups? Independent Design Studio? :) 

[Richard Brisse]

Groups on Ning are terrible.  I would love to be able to customize, add more rss, move features around and more.

[Patrick Chappelle]

Yes.

[ismail shah]

in my last discussion i pointed out some issue regarding Groups

• Owner of networkshould be able to change owner of group.
• Onwer of group should not able to see Emails of members
• If some member leave Network Group of that member should exists.
• Need Catagories in group. we have 400 groups but we are unable to do activity inside due to NO CATAGORIES
• Groups should be customizible (we can add CSS inside any group instead of using Custom Code of Network)

i hope ning will improve groups. its one of improtant part of ning and needs proper attention

[Jeff Bean]

Ismail, I'm a bit confused. You say that an "owner of a group should not be able to see emails of members." I didn't think they could, either email addresses or email messages. That would be a concern to me if it could, but I don't see that they can. Am I missing something?

[Jorge Nava]

Definitely!! i agree!! hope they do something soon :)

[Thiago Santos de Moraes]

I just need an a entire page for my groups. They are essential for my community, they are more important than blogs.

[ATLANTIAN TRAVELER]

i already seen this done 3 years ago in my own web site, i wont name the designer of the custom css that has to be installed into main css. but here is how it worked in my site after css is installed into main css custom, then you go to the group and a off ning site file with a picture html url ,is installed into the text box. reason i wont mention name of the designer , they felt they had the right to delete members archives and other content of the site and then cowardly ran off.

[ATLANTIAN TRAVELER]

to ismail shah  if you want a group to remain even if the creator of the group decides to leave your site or skip town always feature the group because if its creator leaves what ever content they decide to leave behind will be saved . so if you have a awesome group always make a rich text document file and copy it to save it as back up , in case at later date it is erased. many like me started  our websites as a off shoot in a group of someones site. i always called them sister or mother sites where original group was located as it can be used as a link to your site or any other site you wish to have same group material in. beware of using others content  blogs etc. because of plajurism rights i dont think ning or anyone else on internet appreciates plajurist ive been victim to this my self , so be kind to others as you wish them to be to you be original if someones elses ideas inspire you dont copy all their content make your own.

under ning guide lines i cant mention the names of these plajurist who infect our ning platform . all i can say is choose your members  well especially carefull be choosy who you authorise as admins cause some times they become over zealous and can eraze of mess up your layout. 

[ATLANTIAN TRAVELER]

i joined a site several weeks ago 7 days after im there already i couldnt use my sign in protocol was a small window apeared change password and email address after that i notice for 3 different days my content was being moved around on my page while i was sitting in the site. so this mite be a culprit  in reading others email if ning chooses i will identifie the site as this site and one other i left was using the same tactics

[Vladimir Sebastian Bach™]

+1

[Troy Marquis]

www.thisisbully.com i applied video chat in all my groups it seems to help a bit before it was dead

[Vladimir Sebastian Bach™]

Look what i've done with one of my groups here;

http://www.roleplaysocial.net/group/soul-society

This goes in html box in specific group.

<link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="theme.css" ></link>

This goes into a css file which you will need to upload to your network and replace theme.css with the link to the css file you just uploaded.

.xg_widget_groups_group_show #xg_canvas .xg_span-12 {
    width: 980px !important;
}
.xg_span-5 {
    width: 230px;
    display: none !important;
}
.xg_widget_groups_group_show .xg_span-4 {
    width: 100% !important;
}
.xg_theme #xg {
    background: transparent !important;
}
.xg_theme #xg_head, .xg_theme #xg, .xg_theme #xg_foot {
    box-shadow: none !important;
}
.xg_theme #xg_themebody {
    background: transparent !important;
}
#xg_masthead {
background-image:url
('Replace with a masthead image') !important; height: 400px;}
.xg_theme p#xg_sitedesc { display: none; }
.xg_theme h1#xg_sitename a {
    display: none;
}
body { background-color: #ccc; }
.xg_theme .xg_module {
    background: none rgb(0, 0, 0);
border:none;
box-shadow: 0px 2px 6px -2px #000;
}