FORUM

Off Topic Rant - Self Hosted - The Good, the Bad And The Infuriating

Ning, you are lucky you are in existence. In short, self hosted for those of you whose curious about going down this road, isn't all it's cracked up to be.

Rather than complain about what doesn't work, and give prays to what does. I'm going to just pu

Changes on facebook, and new instructions how the app should be set up

Hi there!

I guess you all aware about the last news regarding the facebook and data leak. Because of that, they are making the usage of the API more strict, that is why please check the updated instructions how the Facebook login APP should be create

Tip: How to Add an Easy to Manage News Ticker

Several community managers have contacted me and asked for a simple news ticker to add to their community. So....This is a tip for anyone who would like to add a simple and easy to manage news ticker to their Ning Community.  It is easy to manage bec

TIP: How to Quickly Change Network Background and Track Pageloads

Ok guys... in the past week I have had 4 separate community managers ask me the best way to switch out a background image in both Ning 2.0 and 3.0 networks. Here is the way that I do it.

This method will also double as a pageview tracker using goo.g

Tip 3.0: Simple Social Bar (HTML+CSS)

So you want a simple bar which takes your members to your social profiles.  Here it is..

What we are creating:

HTML (can go in your ABOVE FOOTER HTML box on any page- change to your links)

<ul class="spicesocialwidget">
<li class="facebook">
<a rel="nof

Auto Post Newly Uploaded Photos to Social Sites

Is there anyway to have new photos that are uploaded to our sites from our members to automatically post to our social sites like Facebook or Google+? 

Wordpress has a plugin that does it called Jetpack. Any ideas for Ning? 

3rd party integration

Hi there!

At the moment we are considering adding new services to 3-rd party integration. But as you are the one who would be using them instead of just adding the most popular ones we would like to kindly ask you to share your thought regarding whic

Facebook share button, Ning 3.0

Hi there!

As the share from Facebook comments doesn't work, I have been thinking is there any way around, so you could share discussions/blogs etc to your Facebook timeline. And basically I'm not guru (actually I think I'm not even on beginner level

TIP: Brush Up On Social Media with Bookmark FREE eCourses

If you have been looking for a FREE way to learn about social media in your own time, I have a secret for you.  A platform called Bookmark allows you to take eCourses for free when you sign up using this referral link.    These courses each take arou

Tip N3 responsive in-line images with titles. Easy HTML.

Your images will auto resize while being in-line and centered. It'll work on all columns and layouts. You can also add an image title underneath each and every image.

click here to see it live   On this page I have the divide in two HTML box's, in t

( tip N3 ) the importance of CSS @media Queries - And how to use them.

It's very important to use the @media wraps for different screen resolutions on a responsive network such as Ning 3.0 networks.  

There are a lot of 3.0 networks that have asked me for help. Most of them their sites look perfect on a laptop, PC or TV

3.0 Footer Tip: Add Social Icons Using Icon Font and No Javascript

Hey Ningers, here is a simple yet elegant and modern social footer featuring entypo icon font and long-shadow icon design.  The whole thing requires no javascript or images and we may learn something new together.  What we are building is the followi

Time Saver: Your RSS Feeds for Location Tags on Ning

I hope to save you all some time with this tip.  Below you will find 4 text files, each with RSS feeds for major locations around the world, geared to pull all content which has been tagged on your network for the location names.  Simply open the TXT

Community: ✍ Contribute Your Cleverer Content Categories ✍

I wanna see what kind of clever categories everyone is coming up with (Blog Pages, Forum Pages, Photo Pages all have categories) . As a community of "creators" we should be able to come up with the clevererest content categories anywhere!

This is wh

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

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

Mobile Usage Trends

They're doing it everywhere.  In the laundromat, while eating, on the bus and at work.  Everyone's on their phone so what's the trend in mobile usage you ask?  Here you go!

Oh and how fast your page loads............does matter. Visual from this Cit

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