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Ok guys... in the past week I have had 4 separate community managers ask me the best way to switch out a background image in both Ning 2.0 and 3.0 networks. Here is the way that I do it.
This method will also double as a pageview tracker using goo.g
Read moreThis Ning tip / trick / hack assumes the following:
Around this time last year I posted a tip for how to add text effects to your imported Google Fonts and this seemed to be helpful for other NCs looking to add a little flare to their fonts. But what about those who just want to style their headers a
Read moreWe once were able to use FBRSS.COM to grab the feeds of Facebook Pages we follow. What FBRSS did was simply parse the RSS feeds on Facebook and then they generated new RSS feed URLs on their own server, but that no longer works. There were some cool
Read moreNot sure if anyone else has noticed (as i can't see any mention of it on Creators) but we now seem to have the ability to add animated cover photos to our Ning 3.0 profiles. For example, take a look at my profile cover photo.
I haven't yet tried
Read moreQuick and simple way to stop showing the number of members inside a group on the main Groups Hub
Add this to your advanced CSS area of design studio and save:
div.groupHub-groupInfo {display:none;}
Let me know if you have any problems or need help s
Read moreIf youve been looking for a simple way to make a Windows 8 Live Tile for your members, today is your lucky day. With Windows 8.1, people can pin your website as a live tile on to their Windows start screen. This is a live tile so it will automaticall
So sadly there isn't any information about Ning 3.0 Sitemaps and the sitemap.xml route does not work in Google Webmasters so our only solution I could find at this moment is adding sitemaps through RSS feeds. I posted a Sitemap Hack a few years ba
Read moreJust a quick note to let you guys know that I have added a new tool to Ning Powered Events for generating the Author Link for Google+ profiles, which can be really helpful when building Bio Boxes for Articles on your Ning Network. Its very simple..t
Read moreAround this time last year I shared a Hack for getting RSS feeds from Twitter and I must admit it was a little too techy for many NCs on the network. I promise that this one will be much easier.
Because Creators activity is wonky presently and seems
Read moreAround this time last year I shared a Hack for getting RSS feeds from Twitter and I must admit it was a little too techy for many NCs on the network. I promise that this one will be much easier. What I am going to show you is how to generate a RSS
Read moreThis is a simple tip and trick for adding a classy, eye catching Under Construction Banner to any Groups you are working on that are not quite ready for prime-time. This tip uses no images or javascript...just simple HTML and CSS
Example: Makulu J
Read moreMy favorite go-to spot for finding RSS feeds around a particular topic would have to be http://ctrlq.org/rss/ because of the ease of use and infinite combinations of searches which can be made.
For example, if you plug in something like the follow
Read moreIf you have looked around for a simple location aware widget to add to your Ning network, you have probably seen all sorts of garbage widgets loaded with ads and flash junk. This is why i have been working on a HTML5 solution that can be hosted on N
Hey Ningers, here is a simple yet elegant and modern social footer featuring entypo icon font and long-shadow icon design. The whole thing requires no javascript or images and we may learn something new together. What we are building is the followi
Read moreI hope to save you all some time with this tip. Below you will find 4 text files, each with RSS feeds for major locations around the world, geared to pull all content which has been tagged on your network for the location names. Simply open the TXT
Read moreI wanna see what kind of clever categories everyone is coming up with (Blog Pages, Forum Pages, Photo Pages all have categories) . As a community of "creators" we should be able to come up with the clevererest content categories anywhere!
This is wh
Read moreWhat I am going to show you is extremely simple and will create a consistant feel to your site by visitors. What we will achieve is a 1- pixel shift or "bump down" affect on all links. Links are inline elements, margin-top won't work. We don't want t
Read moreText fields, comment boxes and and search input on Ning networks are not only numerous, they are getting better and better. While setting up several Ning 3.0 networks, I recently began using an online speech to q
You may be accustomed to adding telephone numbers to web pages as just static text of digits and dashes, which doesn't offer any sort of real interaction to your members or visitors. Yet,with more and more people u
