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Who knew an online community could help catch a thief?

I run a community built around the art fair business with around 7500 members. Artists network around information about the business, share their stories, show reviews, etc.

Recently an artist posted about a buyer at an art fair who bounced a large

Trick: How to Add Related Photos, Forum Posts and Blogs Widget

Actually, this tip could be used for adding related posts to Photos (example), Forum Topics (example) or Blog Posts (example).  To be honest, using this method you could probably show related posts and pages for just about any feed on the network you

Trick: show only 2 featured videos with clear thumbnails.

Hi NCs,

This trick is specially for those who are running their video based networking sites. As you know there are small featured video thumbnails in video section of every network. So this trick will actually hide those small featured video thumbn

[TIP] Customize the text box on user profiles (Overwrite user profile css too)

Hi,

I answered a question on creators which inspired me to post this small tip on how to Customize textbox on user profiles (Overwrite user own css code too)

Requirements:

1.Basic knowledge of Javascript or jQuery(Javascript Library)

2.Interme

time for a tune up? make your site faster

we all love adding new features, adding tips and tricks from other creators, tinkering around with code and constantly improving our sites..

but

te more you add the slower it gets.. bogging down  as you css and custom code gets extensive, as you add

Tip: Turn your networks "Follow" to an attention getting button.

Updated 10-8-2012 with yellow & black images...

I haven't shared anything in a while, so here's a tasty tidbit to draw some attention to your networks follow button with a little style.

Add this to your Advanced/Custom CSS:

/*Follow Button Twe

Tip: Personalize your forum module.

Hi all NCs,

This time, I'm gonna show you a small tip but could be effective. 

There is a continue link  at the bottom of every forum. That continue link is so boring and doesn't look good. That's why I wanted to customize it.

You may want to subs

Facilitate Member Content Creation with the + Tab

I have two features on my network that encourage content creation and make it easy for myself -- and members -- to get started.

The first is the "+" tab. This tab is displayed only for logged-in members, and the sub-tab "Add a Page" is displayed

Change Group Layout - Remove Sign-in Box, Change Column & Module Orientation

Have you wanted to change the orientation of the standard NING group lay out?  Take a look at my group layout - if you like it, add this code to change yours.  You may want to try it in your test network first, and make subtle changes for your own ta

"TIP" Dock your Ning music player for members convenience update V1.2

This code will dock your music player to the right side of your Main page. if you want to use it for your whole network just remove this part of the code ( .xg_widget_main_index_index ) out of both codes

it's working perfectly for me in Windows XP t

"TIP" "style_GC_whole_network.css" Update Version 5.4

This stylesheet will add styles and animation fx throughout your whole network blogs, forums, groups, latest activity, comments 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

Make your Site's Homepage "Stranger-Friendly"

Until a week or so ago, the idea of making my website "stranger-friendly" was something I didn't know to be possible. I mean, how could someone with a basic understanding of CSS and HTML make what members see different from what non-members see? Than

jquery tabs - save more space

Preview of Final Results. Checkout Live demo here!
Last updated 4/22/12 to fix issues address here, here and here! :p

Paneling

This week I want to talk about designing main pages using “paneling”. I don’t know where I saw the term or if I made it up, lol! However, it fits. What I’m talking about is the use of text boxes as the primary focus of your site rather than the conve

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

Increase your member growth with a Super Brand New Way to Invite.

A whole new approach and new tool to growing your network.
When you are looking to grow your network you can come up with some pretty creative stuff as some creators have done here. I am about to take the something that is no longer used here on Crea

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