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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

Use of Member Moderation

About three weeks ago, I began moderating the acceptance of new members as a result of an increase in spammer activity on our site.  I had three incidents in close succession where a spammer joined and posted Viagra ads in the forum discussion area. 

How to Add a Sign In Button to Sign Up/ Sign In Box

--->to Add a Sign In Button to Sign Up/ Sign In Box

Step 1. Go to your dasboard ->Language Editor ->your active language

Step 2. Search for "or <a %s>Sign In</a>"

Step 3. Change "or<br/> <a %s><img src="sign in image link"></a>"

Thank all members on

Layered Paper Look with Pure CSS

I've written plenty on CSS for your Ning network before, but today I'm going to show you something simple.   I'll show you how to give a layered paper look behind any aspect of your site that you like.  To start simple, let's try adding it to a text

Most Read Email Template

Hi all,

Not enough people on my site use the Share options. This is pretty annoying, so to try and encourage members to promote their own contnent using the social share options I've started sending a weekly broadcast (on a Monday - my Weekly Digest

Tip: How to make a cool looking photo section?

Instruction:

Copy and paste the following code into My Network>Setting>Appearance>Advance.

/***********Inner Shadow for Photo Album************/
.xg_list_photo{-webkit-box-shadow: inset 0px 0px 100px #1e81c8; /* webkit browser*/ -moz-box-shadow: in

Tip: Make a Cool-Looking Forum Module.

Just copy and paste the following code into Advanced CSS Area.

Example:

The Code:

/************************* Forum Module Style ***********************/

/* Forum Text style */
    .module_forum h3 {font-family: Myriad Pro;}

    .module_forum .

What has been your best traffic generator on your network?

A video recently posted by one of my top members generated a huge amount of traffic for us, the reason was that it was widely shared on Facebook and it was a perfect fit for our niche.

What has been the single busiest post in terms of views for your

Problems displaying photo thumbnails - a solution

Just managed to solve a problem I had with the photo thumbnail display on my network. It's a really simple solution so no need to kick me, cos I already have.

The Problem: 

Photo thumbnails were showing as a row of 4 then a row of 1, then a row of

Do you have a 'WHY USE' page?

Hi all,

Sometimes the simplest of things can escape us NCs. It recently dawned on me that I didn't have a page detailing exactly why people should sign up. This was partly because i was letting the site evolve to a point where I could determine mysel

3 special CSS TIP !! JUST copy&paste into custom code!!

Hi, there :D

I got question about CSS, so I made the CSS-TIP "allanista" !!

This TIP include 3 Special Effects!!

1. Special Design Studio!!
   DesignStudio will be transparent-mode When move the cursor away.
   you can see more cleary !!
2. Speci

Hack for Using Videos to Drive Group Involvement

Quick and Dirty..i am going to show you a quick hack which allows you to use a video to encourage participation in a group on your ning network.

Here's the scenario:

~Let's say you have a new group on your network called Total Station Talk (like I

How to Create a Chrome Extension for your Network

If you use Google Chrome as your browser, you may be familiar with Extensions. Google describes them as"Extensions are extra features and functionality that you can easily add to Google Chrome. By using extensions, you can customize Google Chrome

Tips for Finding or Removing Spammers

Hey Guys,

Just went through some of my members and discovered some interesting patterns that helped me remove a bunch of spammers, here's my suggestions and tips from the experience. 

PREVENTION

Tip #1:  DO NOT have contests that involve only people

Weekly newsletter for your members

Hello all !

Here is the newsletter wich is automatically sent to my members, every week.

If you want some details, you can go on my blog to read the story ; it's now in french, but i'm planing to translate it in english soon...

Language Editor Tweaks for Invalid Slugs

Sometimes your i's aren't dotted and your uncrossed t's are all screwed up.  You thought you linked to that group properly but you didn't.  All a member sees is your mistake with a "We're Sorry".  For example, if you have a lot of groups that you lin

Simple but powerful way to create interaction on your network.

Greetings,

I run a site called http://hhoinformation.com it is for hydrogen research. I had an issue where sometimes people would post a discussion but it would go unanswered. So I decided I needed to give members a way to preview content without ha

brand recognition how often is your site searched for by name?

everyone knows keywords are important  to traffic, finding the right keywords to bring in traffic is great but do you also have street cred? brand recognition? are you being talked about in schools and offices and even on the street?

brand recogniti

Increase Twitter Mentions with Language Editor

Something that gets me a lot of followers on Twitter is having my Twitter username in Tweets from my site content, and I make this easy for members by changing something in the language editor:

Look for Checking out "%1$s" on %2$s:

And replace with