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

Share your Network Button

Hi all

Here is a sweet tip to help you all promote your sites using an icon/badge/button. It works like the cuurent 'badges' that we have only it's better because it links directly to the specific profile page of the member who uses it.

Here's how

Tip: Profile Comment Issue - Quick Fix

I thought I could share my version of the profile comment quick fix, while we're waiting for the official fix.

This is my version. Here you go:

How to Add Pinterest Button to Your Ning

First: What is pinterest?

Pinterest is described on its website as a “virtual pinboard” – a place for you to “collect the things you love”. Other useful descriptions you’ll hear are “online vision boards” and “image bookmarking website”.

How

NING Badges - Special Star PNGs

Hello NCs,

I'm excited to be able to share one of my first tips/resources to you guys. I had this project done last week ready for the release, but it's only a week off so not a hassle.

Some of you are cooking up ways to implement these badges as w

Top News and new RSS Feed - I finally found a use

This may have been obvious to some, but I just figured this out.

Once the new Beta Social Feed was released, I finally figured out a way to utilize Top News.  

The options for Top News are: posts by Creators, posts by Featured Members or posts by Adm

Trick: How to customize you forum module?

I'm basically modifying Top Discussion This Week page using Text Editor.

How to modify then?

Be sure to change "Top Discussions this Week" heading to "Discussion Forums" via Language Editor ( search "Top Discussions" in search field.)

Be sure to c

Growing Your Network (Organically)

Hi there!

Recently there has been a lot of discussion on customizing the network INVITE application, which I have been following with a lot of interest. I thought I would put up a counter-point discussion for anyone interested in an alternative viewp

Want To Make It Big? Learn How To Code (Or At Least Edit Code!)

If you constantly have to wait on someone else to help you, you'll never get anywhere. I'll be honest - I'm not a coding genius. BUT I can at least recognize most coding and edit it to do what I want. I started out a complete airhead who was only abl

Tip: Centering Module Header Text - The Right Way

Hi all,

I have read some answers about centering module text, but this is using margin styling that just pushes the element by some percentage left or right which is not a true centered look. What if your header text happens to be 'Supercalifragilis

Tip: How to make member list page Stand Out?

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How to make member list page Stand Out? 

Instructions: Please download the below attachment and simply copy and paste the code into Advance CSS Box. If you can't find the attachment, then see my reply below.

Ning Creators Community Always Spam-Free: What's The Secret?

Ning, Whatever you're doing to keep this wonderful Ning Creators community spam-free is working. I'd like to focus on engaging existing members instead of manually approving new ones to thwart spammers. Care to share your spam-free secret? Thanks -Ri

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

Don't be shy - now share it on Facebook

A little tip to get your members to share content just before they post it.

It looks like this on a blog post. My colours tie in with my site so stand out naturally but the idea is draw members' eyes to it:

Css:

having trouble getting a hosted sitemap recognized? try this trick

i have a new site with a www and a subdomain  i couldnt get the www (ning site) sitemap recognized (hosted on a seperate sitemaps subdomain)

i put links to it on the site, i put a robots.txt sitemap refference

nothing got it to recognize the sitemap