Have any Network Creators had a member Meetup?

I was wondering if any Network Creators has had or is planing on having a Member Meet?

All the members of my social network http://criterscorner.ning.com had a member meet just this past September. We chose to rent a couple lodges at a KOA Camp groun

Meta-tags To Use For Optimized Facebook Sharing

When content from your ning network is shared to facebook, you want the vital information about the content to show up in that post right?  Here are a few of the most important meta-tags you'll need to add to pages (ie in the Manage Title and tags) i

New Google Analytics - realtime is awesome

If you don't have Google Analytics or have not looked for a few days they have just introduced real time view.In one word, it's awesome.You can now see how many people are on your site at this moment, the changes when you tweet or Facebook something

A good way to get donations.

Donation buttons generally only work under three circumstances:

1. You are not obviously making money from the content of your website in any other way.

2. The stuff you do is of high-quality, above and beyond the norm.

3. You don't promote the ex

Tips for Those Using External CSS Files

I recently had a friend ask me to take a look at his site, which was not loading so well in Internet Explorer. I took a look at his code and noticed that he had tried to call 43 external stylesheets in the ... section of his webpage, which remin

Start a Ning Store thru Amazon.com & Start Making Easy Money

You can have a store right on your Ning website by using Amazon.com's affiliate site called "Amazonassociates".

You make 6 to 15% on everything that your visitors buy and it cost you nothing... and you don't do anything either. YES... easy money... a

Pull-Quotes attract attention - CSS Class

A pull-quote is a small selection of text pulled out and quoted in a larger typeface or using some other formatting distinct from the rest of the article.  Here's one way to style it with your CSS. 

.pullquote-right {

border-top: 4px solid black;
b

EVENTS "ADVANCED" SEARCH

Hi all,

in order to improve my network, I've create a kind of "Advanced" Search for Events... What hard work! :-)

So, these are - in summary - the steps to implement my function:

1 - Determinate what are the features/contitions search for events:

Your ning network has your its own feedback page. Have you ever noticed that?

Hi NCs,
You don't have to run after third party apps or something. Your ning network has its own feedback page. Have you ever noticed that?

For your feedback page url would be something like http://yournetwork.ning.com/main/index/feedback

If you ar

Make Your Forum Module Stand Out - simple tip for newbies

This is super easy CSS to help make your Home Page Forum module stand out. The point is: Make one special module stand out from the rest.

Instructions:

• Edit CSS below, changing background color to your preferred color. The example color looks grea

How to generate activity...

I found a good way to generate activity on my network : 

You just need to go in the language editor and search for "Settings" 

Change "Settings" by : 

Settings</a><br><br><h2>Add</h2><a href="/events/event/new" target="_top" title="Add an eve

Members on the map

The easy way to put members on the map with BatchGeo. Just export members CSV file, then open in  excell andfollow instruction on BatchGeo.com

If you also want have photos of members, you need  copy site by site :-( I spent 3 hours with thies. Worki

Slicker looking message area

I've been playing around with my messaging pages today and though I'd share the results in case it's of any use.

Basically, I've added some neater looking tabs on the reply/delete options, done something similar for the Inbox/Sent etc tabs, put a bo

Scroll to the top

Let visitors scroll to the top of your page with a click.This is my first code made on my own.I have been looking for the script here on creators.But the few i found did not work.So i decided to try to make it by myself.Here is the code to, Scroll to

Design your latest activity with pictures!

My idea came to me because I'm Russian)) The fact is, that the translation of messages  of the lastest activity on the Russian looks very ugly: unmet gender, distort the cases. So we decided to use pictures instead of the words. It looks very nice. I

Blog Listings CSS

Here's a wee bit of CSS to help spruce up your blog listings as in action here

Just add this CSS in your Appearance/Advanced or Design Studio Advanced box:

PLay around with styles at will

/* background to blog list*/
.xg_widget_profiles_blog_list

HOW MUCH DO YOU GET INVLOVED WITH A NETWORK AFTER THE DESIGN IS DONE?

Greetings everyone,

I dont post much but I have a question for all of you so I can better understand how to help my customers and grow.

I have completed a ning site a few days ago: http://dsrrs.com/

Please ignore the load time..it will take a time to

Text Sizer Feature For Site Users - A+ Larger Font | A- Smaller Font

Update: April 18, 2012

ALERT!!!!!!!!

As of approximately 1 week ago, it was brought to my attention that some of the input/submit buttons on JenSocial were not working in IE9. For example, the SEND button in private messages would not work. After a

Results Page Enhancements

Hi Creators,

A quick tip to enhance your search results when there are no matches:

Search for

We couldn't find anything that matches "%s". Why not search for something else?

in the language editor and change it to (or amend if you don't like my w

Important Twitter Tip for Outgoing Tweets

A while back I showed you how to

Change the Out-going Twitter Text for Shared Items

and after clicking on the tweet option (for example on a group) it would look like this:

Now That's The Wrong Way to Do It.

But today I am going just a tab bit