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How to Add Referral to Outbound Links from Your Community

Wanna convert all of your outbound links into referral links like Product Hunt or Land Surveyors United Community?  Here is how  to do just this.

To implement a referral link with a "?ref=yourcommunityname" parameter to all outbound links on your webs

A Simple Way to Move Navigation Up Into Account Bar

I've been cleaning my Ning Network up for our 16th Birthday celebration as a community and I came across a great trick for moving your primary navigation up into the account bar.

Simply add the following to your custom code bottom section near the top

Yet Another Time Saver: Code for Finding Members Anywhere in US

Last Week I showed you this

Another Time Saver: Use Advanced Search for Creating Location Buttons

But now I have a bit of code to share with you for finding members in your community by US State

Just download the following text file > Open it in your te

Tip: How to Add a Google News RSS Feed or Widget to your Community

Communities create news but it is always a good idea to mix with the outside world.  If you run a niche community, it is a good idea to stay on top of what is going on in the world related to your community.  One way to do this is to pull in relevant

Quick Hack of Language Translator on Ning Words and Placement (code included)

If you're like me you believe your top of screen real estate to be very important..  and adding google translate can occupy a little too much, especially for mobile users.   This is why the default google translate element is too long.  Here is how w

How to build an Iframe Switcher for Your Community

If you have been running your community for some time you probably have a lot of resources to share.  You may be looking for a compact way to showcase many tools in the same place, such as a getting started page or a resources page.  I am going to qu

TIP: How to Automagically Change Text Locations into Maps

Ok so someone I am helping with their Ning community has a lot of locations which are mentioned throughout their site and they were wondering how we could change those locations into maps automatically.  I am going to show you how to do two things li

Tip: How to Embed Facebook Group Invites Inside Pages or Broadcasts

If you run a satellite group on Facebook for your Ning community, this tip is for you.  You can now grab a embed code for your group and paste it inside a page on your community or inside a message broadcast.  

It looks like this:

How to Embed Facebook Comments to a Post

If you are looking for a way to import all comments on a post from facebook into your Ning network, here is a trick you may have not tried.  Of course you can grab an embed code from Facebook and embed the actual post into your site, but this is quit

How to NOT Display Number of Members in Groups

Quick and simple way to stop showing the number of members inside a group on the main Groups Hub

Add this to your advanced CSS area of design studio and save:

div.groupHub-groupInfo {display:none;}

Let me know if you have any problems or need help s

Tip: How To Make a Windows Live Tile for your Ning Network

If youve been looking for a simple way to make a Windows 8 Live Tile for your members, today is your lucky day. With Windows 8.1, people can pin your website as a live tile on to their Windows start screen. This is a live tile so it will automaticall

How to Get Google to Recognize Sitemap

So sadly there isn't any information about Ning 3.0 Sitemaps and  the  sitemap.xml route does not work in Google Webmasters so our only solution I could find at this moment is adding sitemaps through RSS feeds.  I posted a Sitemap Hack a few years ba

Hack: How To Get RSS Feeds From Google +

Around this time last year I shared a Hack for getting RSS feeds from Twitter and I must admit it was a little too techy for many NCs on the network.  I promise that this one will be much easier.

Because Creators activity is wonky presently and seems

Tip & Trick: Add under Construction Banner To Groups

This is a simple tip and trick for adding a classy, eye catching Under Construction Banner to any Groups you are working on that are not quite ready for prime-time.  This tip uses no images or javascript...just simple HTML and CSS

Example:  Makulu J

RSS Tip: How to Find the Perfect Feeds For Your Network

My favorite go-to spot for finding RSS feeds around a particular topic would have to be http://ctrlq.org/rss/ because of the ease of use and infinite combinations of searches which can be made.

For example, if you plug in something like the follow

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

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

Responsive 3.0: Dos and Donts of PXs and %s

With the mandatory migration to 3.0 looming and so much to learn about responsive design, it can be difficult for Ning Network creators to understand which CSS units to use where, and when, on their network pages. The instinct (i keep encountering wi

HTML5 Tip: Valid Flash Embed Code

Over the past couple days at least 3 others have asked me how to embed a valid flash file in their Ning network.  So here is a tip. Are you often embedding Flash files into your html pages? If yes, you’ll better save the valid flash embed code below

Infographic: Dimensions for Social Media Design of Profiles

If you use other social media platforms to boost engagement with your ning network, this is a very helpful infographic to download or just bookmark this discussion. In the comments below, share screenshots of your creations!

The only dimensions you