"Can someone from Ning confirm where they are on having Ning 3.0 ready for use with all bugs sorted and all the other design features that you would expect complete.  It is three months since 3.0 was announced, with a mid-summer date for…"

"Why can't Ning create a seperate sub-tab as they have for "Discuss Ning 3.0" and call it "Positive Input Into 3.0" or something like that. Whilst I have issues ( as a music site ) it is time to move on and utilise this forum…"

"Perfect John. I can add Picasa, very simple to use for a novice, but gimp is the best opensource program "

"There are many free software photo editing utilities out there but as Kos said it all comes down to the image resolution you have that you want to upsize. If it's a jpg and only has a resolution of 72dpi there is not enough pixels in the image…"

"I had the same problem. Its from spambots. I added a simple sign up quiz question and it stopped them dead"

"I used http://pixlr.com however in my experience a great deal depends on: The # of pixels within the original The original's quality (png, bmp or jpeg) After all, you're tripling in size.  I'll be curious to see if anyone else…"

"Nice site! Never heard of it until now. Seems like a news network to me, I cannot see it having a great effect on new member sign up abilities but I do see it having an impact on driving more visitors to look at new content on the site."

"At last. A test site that starts to show some of the potential. Which theme are you using for that John. It looks great."

"Jordon That looks good. Are you having to use code to do that or can non coders do it as well ?"

"Yes they are.  I know this from a conversation with them.  Additional themes will be coming out; some with less padding.  I too am waiting.  Summer cannot get here fast enough."

"I read somewhere in these gazillion comments (from a Ning person), that they are going to add more theme templates (no date mentioned) and these will address the padding/white space issue (I assumed he meant that they won't have as much as the…"

"Strumelia It's gonna be a wait and see for me as well. I'm actually locked out of my sandbox at the moment because the password reset wont work and to be honest I'm not bothered about getting back in. I do not know how Ning plan to…"

"Well we can shrink the buttons and their spacing with CSS but yeah, they will go to two rows if there is not enough room.  Idk the answer to your question about why Ning can't do this atm but I imagine they will, eventually, maybe..."

"What worries me is will there be enough room for all the profile buttons when people add friends, comment wall, groups, blogs, etc. Will it be two rows of buttons? If YOU can do this, why the heck can't NING??  I don't understand…"

"Yep I was just listening to it!  I'm glad embedding a music player in my Ning 3.0 Profile textbox app worked for you! :-)"

"I was able to add my grooveshark music player.  :)"