Personalize your share buttons and Increase traffic by helping visitors share.

Step 1. Copy and paste the following code into custom code.

"tip" The ultimate NINGBAR Two choices Light or dark Hover affects

This ningbar took me about two hours to put together.  I've seen a lot of different versions of these but I took The best ideas out of all of them and made the ultimate NINGBAR.

What the Ningbar does, it's fixed so it will scroll down the page with

URL Tricks for Embedding Youtube Videos

There are many reasons for being concerned how your embedded Youtube videos are displayed to your members. I once showed you a hack for how to embed Youtube videos with the Youtube Logo

Choose a Custom Size for Your Videos:

Keep in mind that YouTub

More Unicode Awesomeness with CSS

A few weeks back I showed you how to add a pure HTML sidebar quicklinks navigation using Unicode.  Here for another short installment, I'll show you how to add symbols beside different types of links using Unicode and CSS

We Create Unicode Icons By

If You Care about SEO, Stop Using display:none !important!

Just a tip.  Take it or leave it.  You can replace your display:none!important! codes inside your custom CSS with this more search engine friendly code, just make sure nothing snaps out of (or into) place before saving.

Use this instead:

#yourcontent

Simplify Your Coding Life with Codepen for HTML, CSS and JS

I just thought it would be nice and useful to share this new tool i've been using with my fellow Ning Creators. Its called Codepen and it allows you to visually see the result of your markup in HTML, CSS and JS while you work

you can even embed you

"TIP" Animate your profile picture!! use an animated Image .gif, .png as your profile picture!!

Animate your profile picture!! Using a simple redirect script. It works with all browsers. IE8,9 - Firefox - Google chrome.. and nameless others.
Your Profile animated gif dimentions need to be set to 183px by 183px very important. This size is what

Tip: Add 'Follow' Social Icons to Member Account Modules

Hi All

Here is a little tip that will allow members to display Follow buttons for their other social profiles on their Ning profile page.

It works based on Profile Questions and the answers that members give, so, if you set a profile question to be

TIP: Change Tag-box to Dropdown!!

Hi, there :D

Unfortunately, Tag is used by "input-text", we can not control member what add the tag.

For example...

Two guys posted to blog about "EURO2012"

Somebody add tag to the Post, "EURO2012".

However, Somebody add tag to the Post, "EU

Customizing and revamping; breaking some of the social networking cookie cutters

I notice that  a lot of creators (not all) are aiming to be the "spitting image" of  places like Facebook".  If I would have wanted to be like Facebook I would have made my website using them. I prefer Ning, thank you.  And "Thank you", Ning!

Our fri

Cloudflare finally stops my spammers

yes it does the job. Use to get 5+ a night but non now.

Would recommend!

Stops all of this - use to get this every night

alternate forum styling

bernard posted a great "crazy look to your ning forum" tip that was great but looked absolutely horrid on my site (due to colors etc) and since it relied on a js  file to style it was too tricky to customize so i came up with my own alternate styling

Tip: Style Sheet for some of my more subtle CSS hacks.

Hi All

I thought I'd post a line of script that collates some of my more subtle css changes into one stylesheet.
You can insert into your custom code and save a whole load of space in your advanced css section which, for some reason, is considerably

Tip: Calls to action to members based on Sign-Up answers

Hi all

This tip is kind of similar to Jen's tip on inserting messages to all members on their profile page.

However, what i wanted to do here was target specific member types, in this case Legal Recruiters, with a 'call-to-action' that applied only t

Crazy Design Trick: Give a mind blowing look to your ning forum.

Jfarrow is looking for THE BEST 3RD PARTY FORUMS TO INTEGRATE INTO NING. His idea is not bad. However, we can give a different or nice look to your ning forum if you have a tweaking knowledge. But how? Here we go.....

Instructions: No headache, no e

Use CSS to Make Sure Images Center Inside a DIV

Here is the code I use to keep an image always centered inside its containing div, regardless of browser width or resizing:

<img src="yourimage.jpg" style="width:100%;margin:0 auto;">

enjoy!

How To Embed YouTube Videos without the YouTube Logo-Hack

Embedding Youtube videos on your ning network is a terrific way to curate content which pertains to your site's subject matter.  But one problem that can arise will actually drive traffic back away from your network and that is when a member (or non-

Tip: Your Network's "Latest Activity" is Alive and Kicking

Hi NCs,

Actually I love to share copy and paste kinda stuff here. I don't want to make it too complicated to implement. However, this time you gotta do some works to bring your network's Latest Activity to life.  Please follow the instructions caref

How to Convert your CSS into LESS using CSS2LESS

Last week i showed you guys a cool tool i found for CRUNCHING LESS and CSS, but today I came across an equally useful tool for CONVERTING CSS to LESS. 

Convert CSS Into LESS With Css2Less

If you are one of the NING designers/developers who jumped i

Verify Your Site @ Alexa!

There have been a number of discussions here on Creators over the years as to how to verify your Ning network at Alexa. There are instructions at their FAQ page specifically for Ning networks, and I am pleased to announce that it works!

Here are the