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Redirect first time users to a splash page

My first tip, hope no one has suggested this before,

Create a html splash page, upload using your file manager, then add the code in your custom code  box.

Check out mine - http://www.swapbbm.com/splash

<script type="text/javascript">

<!--
function r

buttonize the reply link

just a simple tip to make forum reply links look more buttony (if thats a word haha)

add to your css

.toggle a {
  box-shadow: 4px 6px 14px inset;
  cursor: pointer;
  max-width: 178px;
  width: auto;
  padding: 0 3px;
  border-radius:6px;
}
.toggle

Use Infographics to Increase Engagement

I've been working a lot lately with testing out different types of infographic engines in order to create visually appealing chucks of information to increase engagement.  The one I like the most so far is Smore.  This week, I built two different inf

How to Implement Members-Only Downloads for Attachments

So I made a change to my network this week that I think could be very beneficial to other creators.  I noticed that some of my forum posts have between 5k-7k views but not very many replies, so with a little investigation, i realized that these posts

Tip: Insert Paypal Donate Button under Profile Pic

Hi all,

Quick tip in response to the request here: adding a paypal donate button under the profile avatar on member pages. Apologies if this is elsewhere, couldn't find it with a quick search.

Grab your Paypal Donate code from the Paypal page here

"TIP" let's add styles and animation FX's to your main page blogs, events, latest activity and a whole lot more

I put it into a stylesheet because of the amount of code it takes to do this.  So it's really easy to add and remove from your NC custom code box

If you'd like to view the Codes in The stylesheet just click here

just add this code to the top of you

Using your Paid Group Feature for Member Announcements

Many creators (not all) are always looking for good ways to monetize their Ning networks. Since the Paywall Feature was enabled for multiple areas of our sites I sat down and came up with some ideas for helpful ways to use the Paywall feature (I'll s

Professional Ad Serving for your site at no cost

Just a quick tip for those Creators who wish to use a professional and stable ad serving program to start promoting your own in-house rotation ads. I think this is a great addition to help with monetizing your site, alongside of the Ning Ads, which a

Step By Step Community Building

This morning, I’m thinking about the phased implementation of my network. Some people are going to be inclined to release their sites all at once. I plan on doing mine in steps. It’s a temptation I sometimes struggle with, because sometimes I just ca

[TIP] How to use TipTip(ToolTip) jQuery plugin on your network to enhance user experience.

Hi,
I have not written a tip for a while , so in this tip , I will be showing you how to use TipTip(tooltip) jQuery plugin on your network by using Ning network's own jQuery library (x$).

What's TipTip?
TipTip is a custom tooltip which can detect

If You Want to Monetize Your Ning Network - Read This Free eBook

If you use SkimLinks, you will have already got an email about this ebook (as I did).

"Monetizing Online Forums" is a great ebook that is free to download:

http://monetizingonlineforums.com/

I recommend reading it even if you are only starting your n

Remove Social Share & Like Icons from Individual Pages

Do you have a Custom Page that you do not need or want the Social Share or LIKE buttons at the bottom?

I know to most people here on NING Creators, this is an easy task to do.  But after digging, and digging through the NC help/tip archives, I found

Cool Tip: Youtube like pagination

Hi NCs,

This tip explains how to design a youtube like pagination for video page, photo page etc. or more in general to split a long list of contents in more pages. I hope it's a perfect pagination style. 

Instruction: Just copy and paste the code

more language editor seo

last week i gave you a tip on using the language editor to edit the h1 tags for features to include your most important keywords

this week we will be editing the h2 tags in the same way

the h2 tags on your main page in the module headers tgat is

exam

Tip: New Icon Awaiting Approval Set - Full Language Editor Version

Hello again,

I see that my previous related tip has been getting some attention and there's been a few request for the pending approval section.

So here's Part 2 and probably the last part which now focuses on that panel. This is now just using the

2 More Powerful Tools for Your Ning Design Arsenal

Just thought I'd mention two new tools that I have found to be terrifically helpful when designing, redesigning ning sites, or websites in general

DirtyMarkup

paste your code and see possible errors in HTML, CSS, JS

CSS Comb

sort your CSS code in or

surprising ad revenue results

a couple weeks ago i added the new sharethis bar widget as well as the new frictionless share widget (auto share)

the new bar has a popout ad

to be less annoying i set it to wait 30 sec then pop out for only 5 sec then go away

i expected not alot fro

Absolute vs. Relative

Just the other day I made a suggestion to another Ning creator they redefine their network as the “best” site for their respective niche. This was actually an exception to a social media principle I sometimes put out there. One of the natural temptat