How to Add a Border to Anything on Ning Network Using CSS

You may want to create a visual sense of depth on your network or simply place borders around elements within your site- this is how to do this using CSS and the advanced section in your appearance dashboard (old editor).  What I am about to show you

A Better Tag Cloud Generator

With the limitations of the Blog Tags on Ning, I have been looking for a better tag cloud solution for my network. I of course linked up a tutorial a while back for 3D tag solution, but today I came across a promising Tag Cloud Generator which as far

Customize Your Pagination Style with CSS

If you're like me, getting the details of your ning network just right is an ongoing process.  For example, I think that the default pagination styles attached to ning themes are BOR-ING.  So I'm going to quickly show you how to add a little style to

Do More with Your Video Embed Option...and Smile.

Perhaps this is a tip I should keep to myself, but it doesn't seem to be documented anywhere and I think NCs should know about this revelation I had last night.   You can embed presentations, documents in flash paper and even whole flash websites int

Trick: Change the Out-going Twitter Text for Shared Items

While sharing some items on Land Surveyors United earlier I started to think about the search engine optimization of my outgoing tweets on shared items from the network. 

The first 27 characters of a tweet are supposed to be the most heavily inde

How to Map Your Members on a Ning Network

Just made an updated tutorial for Mapping your Network Members.. check it out!

How To: Turn Your Network into A Desktop Application

Here is a cool and quick time-saving tip for the NC on the move. If you are using Google Chrome (which you should be-hint hint), turn YOUR NETWORK into a desktop application in 2 simple steps:

1) Load http://yournetwork.ning.com in your browser and