Infographic: 10 Responsive Web Design Tips

Like many of you, I am always looking for ways to cover my bases and with the new 3.0 layout, here are 10 tips that you might like to keep in mind.

(via PSD blog)

Tip: Add Pinterest Boards to Your Network 3.0

In attempts to change my own attitude, i figured I'd add a quick tip for how to add Pinterest Boards to your Ning 3.0 Network.  What we will be creating is this:

Step 1. Add this code to your Custom Code (End of Page Code)

<script type="text/java

TIP: Multilingual QR Codes For Your Ning

In the past I have shown you a few QR code related Ning tricks, but today I am going to explain the way to add Multilingual QR codes to your site and how it could be useful to your international members.

How Is This Useful

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Tip: Tool For Testing Responsiveness of Your Ning

Today, with 3.0, building a responsive Ning Network means constantly testing how it displays across mobile and tablet devices. You could resize the browser yourself, or use a browser extension or tools within your IDE; but there is an ultra-simple to

Become a Youtube Master with These 4 Tricks

In the past, I have shown you some interesting tricks for embedding youtube videos into your site.  For example, How to Embed without Youtube Logo and how to embed playlists (more at bottom of the post).  Today I am going to show you 4 new tricks for

Hack: Get RSS Feeds for Twitter

Twitter is permanently retiring the Twitter API v1.0 sometime later this month and, to the end user, what it means is that all the existing Atom and RSS feeds of Twitter will stop working once the old API is turned off. With API v1.1, Twitter has com

Tip: Language Editor Tweaks for File Downloads and Attachments

Once upon a time I showed you how to implement members only downloads of attachments to posts on your Ning Network.  And today I noticed that the areas under posts for attachments might now be as attractive as they should be. In fact, maybe the defau

Videos TIP: Build Your Video Library with Video Alerts

If you want to build a thick video library on your Ning network, try out this tool Ive been using for over a year called Video Alerts.

Go to Video-Alerts.com and sign up, add keywords related to your network and when new videos hit the Youtube ind

Take Out The Trash- Your CSS is Garbage

If you add and subtract CSS styles from your network frequently, you might wanna frequent this site/tool.  Enter the CSS Trashman

The CSS Ratiocinator Trashman automatically refactors your CSS and generates a new stylesheet for your site. It works

Hack: Add Audio Files Hosted on Google Drive

Add Hosted Audio Files from Google Drive to Your Ning Network

Here's something that I discovered today which may make your life easier when trying to add music to your ning network, but cannot get around the upload limits.  This solution will allow

Your Network Is Not ALWAYS Exciting

I hope to only make a simple point here.  I belong to and in many cases admin many Ning networks.  This means I get broadcast messages from MANY ning networks.  Some ning networks I get MANY MANY-far too many- broadcast messages, all with titles like

Stratus is Perhaps an Alternative Option for a Music Player

I read all sorts of complaints about the Music player on Ning networks, so I ran across something which may be interesting to you if you have been looking for an alternative way to display and play music on your network.

NOTE:  This may require you

TIP: Give An Alternative Layout To All Groups

Group layouts are just plain wacky.  The middle column has always looked out of place, leaving a TON of white space surrounding other modules.  If you are of a similar mindset, you may like to give your groups an entirely different layout.  Look at t

Accessorizing Ning Networks with Twitter Bootstrap

So i've been playing around with the Twitter Bootstrap framework, building new responsive pages for home, about network and otherwise.  I just wanted to open a discussion regarding the possibilities of using Bootstrap in hope of discovering (or creat

How-to Hack The Welcome Email Part 3

What I have been showing you in detail is How to Hack the Welcome Email into a Getting Started Guide which translates into any language.   Hack Part 1   Hack Part 2

Step 4: Upload the page you made to your server (or public dropbox public folder

How-to Hack The Welcome Email Part 2

Ok, will only have the time and energy to put up a thorough description of Step 2 of this possible solution to automating the welcome email/ getting started guide... Hack #1 is over here.

Step 2: Install language translation into this page, so tha

How-to Hack The Welcome Email Part 1

One of the first problems that Ning creators run into when they start getting serious about their community is sending a welcome email to every new member that joins.  Somewhere along the line they start to get the feeling that someone out there has

Trick: How to Add Related Photos, Forum Posts and Blogs Widget

Actually, this tip could be used for adding related posts to Photos (example), Forum Topics (example) or Blog Posts (example).  To be honest, using this method you could probably show related posts and pages for just about any feed on the network you

Use Infographics to Increase Engagement

I've been working a lot lately with testing out different types of infographic engines in order to create visually appealing chucks of information to increase engagement.  The one I like the most so far is Smore.  This week, I built two different inf

How to Implement Members-Only Downloads for Attachments

So I made a change to my network this week that I think could be very beneficial to other creators.  I noticed that some of my forum posts have between 5k-7k views but not very many replies, so with a little investigation, i realized that these posts