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targeting the tab container container in v1 themes

i was asked how to add a background to the tab container tabs, in v2 themes this is easy since the tabs are contained in a ul tabContainerSection-tabs so .tabContainerSection-tabs {background:red;} works

but in v1 themes theres just a row containing

Ning 3.0 Tip: Infinite Scroll for Photos (Loading More Images ... )

Hi all,

I've been playing around with the awesome Infinite Scroll jQuery plugin to get it to work with Ning 3.0 photos.

Tested on V1 Aloe theme and V2 Infinity theme

What does this tip do? Instead of seeing the pagination buttons at the bottom of

V2 Infinity Theme | Code to Change Menu Tab Colors

I changed the color of my tabs in the new Infinity Theme V2. I made changes to the color, then copy and pasted into the Custom CSS - This CSS will only be used on this theme.

Text file is attached.

Warm

Link Trick: Make Your Links "Feel" Like Buttons on Hover

What I am going to show you is extremely simple and will create a consistant feel to your site by visitors. What we will achieve is a 1- pixel shift or "bump down" affect on all links. Links are inline elements, margin-top won't work. We don't want t

How Do You Use Your Tab Container?

I must say that the Tab Container is the best invention since the Peperoni Pizza. This little container has a powerful and unlimited array of uses. I have been using my simple slider for advertizing and linking to other parts of our site, but it does

3.0 Tip- Mobile Apps & Links to your Network

A number of years ago, if you tried to make a mobile app that would link to your network and make access easier for your members, it was difficult to do...wouldn't work on multiple platforms and would often break some codes (not to mention that our s

➳ How to Add Speech Recognition to Ning Search and Text Areas

Speech Recognition and Voice to Text

Text fields, comment boxes and and search input on Ning networks are not only numerous, they are getting better and better. While setting up several Ning 3.0 networks, I recently began using an online speech to q

Tip: ☎ How to Add Telephone Numbers as Clickable Links ☎

✆ Let The Web Page Do the Dialing

You may be accustomed to adding telephone numbers to web pages as just static text of digits and dashes, which doesn't offer any sort of real interaction to your members or visitors. Yet,with more and more people u

Ning 3.0 Tip: Download Button

Hi all,

I've worked on several client projects recently where there was a need for members to easily access downloadable items (PDFS, Spreadsheets etc) in forum discussions.

This simple tip looks for the word 'download' in links within forum discus

3.0 Mapping Tip: Make Your Member Map Responsive

So, you've read and followed the instructions on how to map your network members (or how to make a member map in 2.0) and you've created a map.  But now you realize that your map hangs off to the side when viewed in mobile devices.  Well you may have

Three Handy Facebook Tricks You May Not Know

For my fellow creators who use facebook to drive traffic to their networks, there are plenty of tactics that work and many that simply do not.  A good while back I showed you a hack to embed facebook videos into your site, but the three tricks I am a

3.0 Trick: Add Custom Icons Colors and CSS To Change Them

A client asked me recently if the icon colors could be changed.  Of course I knew there had to be a way to change or customize the icons that Ning serves us.  So, this is the quick and dirty way to change the color of the icons.  I added a single pix

3.0 Hide Items When Signed In

What if you have items on your 3.0 site which are there to attract and entice a new visitor, but you don't need/want them to show to an existing member?  Things like a testimonial, "about us" video, other banners or sliders?  You can hide them all to

Killer Tip : How to add seach bar to your ning 3.0 network ?

Hi NCs,

As you know Ning 3.0 doesn't have search bar like ning 2.0 yet. May be some people are desperately looking for a solution. So today I'm gonna show you few simple steps to add  google custom search bar to your ning 3.0 network (Ning 2.0 has s

Tip: (Ning 2.0 and 3.0) How to add multiple custom navigation menus in Ning?

How to add multiple custom navigation menus in Ning?
Follow the steps and instructions:

Step 1: Copy and paste the below code into custom code in Ning 2.0 and custom code (End of Page Code) in ning 3.0. If you want to customize (you should have a ba

Free WebRTC video chat embed!

Wow, this year is off to a good start! I have been searching for a video chat that would work on tablets and smartphones. NO FLASH!   I found it last night! You can find it on OpenClove . It works well. We tested it out with computers first and then

3.0 Tip: How To Map Your Ning Network Members -Updated-

Back in 2010, I showed you how to map your members on Ning 2.0, but this process needs a little bit of updating.

What you are making...

• The only way this will work is if you have a question in your profile questi

3.0 Tip: Make your HTML Mode and other buttons stand out

Here's some little snippets to make active buttons and HTML Editor mode stand out more...was bugging me, so figured I'm not the only one. Add to your CSS.

Enjoy,

FT

/*_________Fire-Tech HTML & Buttons____________*/
a.mceButton.mceButto

Ning 3.0 Responsive Grid Playground

So earlier today I posted a useful Link Scrapper Tool that may come in handy when you are preparing for migration.  The second tool that I created today is a Ning 3.0 responsive grid playground, which you can Fork and use yourself here for learning h

Cool Tool: Link Scrapper Tool for Ning Network Pages

See Your Pages As a Search Engine Does

I whipped together what I feel to be a powerful and simple tool for seeing your pages as a search engine would.  I imagine this tool will become quite valuable during the migration of our networks to the 3.0.