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Page Template: A lightweight grid style

First the html.  Note the use of the classes in <table> & <td>.

<table class="modellist" width="100%">
<tbody>
<tr>
<td width="25%">...</td>
<td width="25%" class="opentop">...</td>
<td width="25%" class="opentop">...</td>
<td width="25%">...</td>

Insert Social Icons into your Navigation Bar

S'up bitchez?

Here's a little tip to get some social icons inserted into your navigation bar so it looks something like this:

First off you need to find the div ID of the final nav tab in your navigation menu. You can do this using Firefox Firebug

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

Latest Activity - scroll activity items only

Jen previously added a great tip to scroll latest activity:

/* Scroll Bar for Latest Activity */
.xg_widget_main .xg_module_activity .xg_module_body {height: 500px;overflow : auto;position:relative;}

But, you may want to keep the 'quick add' options

Tip: Bring Your Boring Photo Module to Life

Many of you know that default Photo Module is so boring. No Standard thumbnail size, no image effects, no hover effect etc. Don't worry, whether you like it or not but I have an idea to make your Photo Module feel much more dynamic and alive. It used

Tip: Comments in a bubble with arrow

A while back Fred asked Does anyone know how to change the ACTIVITY FEED Layout ?which was asking how to put activity feed items into a 'bubble'.

Between Peter Sorenson(thanks to you, sir) and I, we came up with a solution.

Using the best of both o

Pop Up Footer with jQuery. Full Tutorial Inside

I wanted to showcase some of my discussions from Ning Creators over on my website without using up valuable space on my front page.

My idea worked around a pop up footer. I did some searching and found a jQuery version shared by Paul Robinson from R

Add A Lightbox Feature To All Photo's In Photo Section. Full Tutorial Inside!

There was a discussion about adding a light box feature to photos on a Ning site and I replied saying that I thought it was possible. I began looking into it and it decided it was going to be complicated, so I started this discussion as a project for

Tip: Floating Ning Bar

Hi all NCs,

Make your Ning bar follow by fixing it in its position. Similar to the sites here:

http://www.factface.me/

http://www.iyoume.net/

Add this to your CSS Code

Update:If

Hidden menu shows on scroll with jQuery

This tip is compatible with IE8+, FF7+, Chrome, Safari and Opera10+. See the Live Demo. Scroll to see my menu.

This little plugin is was orignaly created by Nick La as a "Scroll to top" button. I made some very minor modifations to it, a little CSS t

Want To Hook Your Users? Drive Them Crazy!

In advertising, marketers reinforce a behavior by linking to the promise of reward. “Use our product,” they claim, “and you’ll be happy, get rich and so on..”; it’s the gist of many product pitches from soap to hamburgers.

But online, feedback loops

Slick Sliding Subtabs (with borders & background Img)

I always wanted more options for the subtabs in DS (at least border options). I finally got around to playing around with mine and figured I'd share.

This is what my subtabs looked like before (boring):

Here's some tweaks to give your subtabs

Sweet Image Overlay Tutorial

My second Tutorial here on creators. Here is a link to the first Tutorial I created. If you start to get lost uploading JS files and images to your website, visit my first Tutorial and you should be able to make it through this one.

 

I wanted to di

Custom smileys for new ning chat

This is the simple css for replace the standard smileys with your own smileys, just copy and paste this code on your appearence code box, im not better in English so please co operate with me

Thease are the new smileys, you can replace them with your

Suggestion to Boost Interest in your Network

I've recently discovered HP's MagCloud.  I'm in the process of adding a quarterly (or twice yearly) publication so our members can have a "hard copy" of the happenings within our network.  I've just begun recruiting members to write articles and cont

Color Palettes can help you design.

New member and my first post.

Unarguably one of the most important aspects of any design is its colors. Designers create the style of a site, as well as the movement it makes, the emotion it creates, and its purpose based largely upon the color choi

How to time stamp your members profile images

Greetings,

I have always thought it would be cool if you could tell just by looking at a members profile if they had been on the network for very long or if they were a new guy. My network http://hhoinformation.com deals with some pretty high tech st

Let's talk social media!

Hi there!

16 years ago, when I was in college, I started (and failed) my first business called "Interbusiness Innovation". The basic idea- to get businesses networking, sharing resources, and leveraging eachother for co-promotion. My role was sort of

Changing backgrounds, pictures, css or files on a fly

Changing backgrounds, pictures, CSS or files on a fly

A couple of years ago I started  a project on Minds-eye.ning.com  that rotated backgrounds.  At first I thought it was great but then I noticed that the hits from switching created a massive delay

Get a logo for your network for free...I mean really free.

Many NCs like me don't have the skill to design a professional logo for their small networks.

It's also not easy to find a service online offering this cheap or for free. I have always been searching for such a link. Where you can pop in, come up wit