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How to add some Youtube Style Icons On Your Videos In Activity and List pages

I thought I would share this as just finished adding this to my site. What this is for is for you to be able to help distinguish between Photos and Videos in the activity feed and also video listpages. As the videos when added look very much the same

How to change profile ''name'' question for people signing up?

I can see in the Dashboard how to add new sign up questions, but I cannot see how to reword the automatic questions. If someone signs up because they are asked for their name they give their regular name, but then most realise upon joining that they

My New Video Pop Up From The Activity Feed ( Update: CODE NOW ADDED 09-04-17 )

UPDATE

All the code I used has now been added here : POPUP CODE VIA BIZZS SITE

Check out the about section as it will show you what get's added to the popup when clicked.

Now we have the new Video feature I thought I would try having a video pop

What I have Learned about Community Management Part 2

Part One Here        Part Three Here

In a world of noise, social channels become clouded and must be filtered and categorized according to relevance, if for no other reason than clarity. A community online becomes d

What I have Learned about Community Management Part 1

Online communities are like little planets, each with their own ec

Video Feature on Ning 3.0

I am wondering about the broader implications of Ning's recent feature release for videos. It should be a simple thing - feature ready / can now use - but in my experience it's more complicated than that. Let's see if the Ning Team can answer these

What I have Learned about Community Management Part 3

Part One Here   Part Two Here

Ning for Business

Just thought I would post my own discussion to go off on this issue. Someone recently posted that they had been approached by a potential serious investor about acquiring their business - and that they had real concerns about the fact -  having their

Be aware that the new Video List page is using the Photos List Page Classes

I just thought I would like to make you aware that the new video feature for the list page and in the detail page that it is using the classes of the photos page. Why is this an issue ? Well if you are not into adding any code at all then it's not bu

Now We Have The Responsive Video We Can Know Adjust The Columns.

Now we have the code for making the videos responsive we can now adjust the columns to take full advantage of the page. So we are going to be making the main video section wider and the other videos section into a single column of videos and adjust t

My Layout Adjustments For The New Video Feature - viewing the video

Ok so it's great to see we have the new videos added but there are a few issues on it's layout especially around the view counts, like button and embed button as you can see in the image below. Also everythign in the bottom part seemed a bit cramped.

Hiding The Video Upload Unless Admin But Leave Embeds For Members

Now we have the new video feature there is not an option for choices of who can upload videos. As uploads can take a lot of space for your storage allowance here is an option to only have that available for Admins so members don't go crazy uploading

Why Are The Events Not Listing The Same Way As UpComing In My Events Or Categories ?

I am finding this really odd, now I have added my month seperators I can now see that other than the UpComing events all the others like my events, and those in categories are all listing the wrong way round, ie the furthest away month first and so o

What a special Member can DO?

Hi there,

      I know that there is a Member Categories. The question is simple. If I create a "PRO" Categories What my "PRO" Member can Do? I meam like a special function that no "Pro" can't do. 

like a Special way to rate other member or a special

Re-size Avatars In Messages Table And Messages Detail

This was asked by J.Ayvar if it was possible to adjust the sizes of the avatars in the messages as they are quite small so here is how to do that.

This will adjust the avatars in the messages table and also in the message detail page. I have set min

Creating An Options Toolbar Instead Of Options Drop In Events

In our events page we have an options drop down where members can choose to edit, delete etc for their event. What this tip does is change the options list into a nice open toolbar and when viewing on mobile it goes back to the list drop down.

Here

Change the colours of your drop down options list in Profiles And Events

This tip is to show how you can the boring old gray options drop down list into something with a little more colour. You can change the setting to fit your site in the code.

Key

.optionsDropdown-list background color: this is the colour for the lis

Setting Your 'Featured' event or profile dropdown list to reflect this

Some time back I posted how to show if something has been featured on your pages, the issue was that if you feature something the text did not reflect that so you could easily un-feature something.

Here is the link to that post: Showing if a post ha

Adding Your Friends, Email notifications and SignOut,Sign in To Your Profile Page ( updated so these and the options, social links all inline to the left )

This tip was inspired by Jacobs post on Creators about having the notifications bar added to members profile pages so here is a way to do that. Below is the code and also a couple of images to demo it. As it's a profile page I cannot add a link for y

Reactor2: Responsive Design for Ning 2.0 Networks

Hey All NCs,

I am pleased to announce our upcoming Responsive Grid and Design Support for Ning 2.0 networks, with our new add-on service and engine framework in development, Reactor2 Theme Engine.

Feature Summary:

• provide an optimal vie