Ning Development For Your Own Networks

A Brief Block to Say to Specific Thanks

I would like to say thanks to the one who give me encouragement to make official posts in WCMS
field. People know how to use web base applications including websites, daily usage information
center and business applications that are making them to be more socialize. I think there are so
many platforms on the web to let user create their own specific space for growing their community
fast and private.

One of my like most is ning.com. It is a platform arise with the multiply and wordpress among the
internet users.

 What kinds of users want to use ning?

 What kinds of services or features are provided within ning?
 What kinds of developers should know the platform ning?

Recently I am reading a mini-blog post on facebook that is about the social privacy and I have an idea that
some people like the community that is unique for them in a way. Ning can give us the needs to create a
reliable, collaboration, attractive and some applications which can be utilized for social networking and
others business corporative methods. So I think that it is a flexible platform to customize and it can be
developed to your desired networks. Schools, banks, companies, organizations and others networks using
internet media can create and work for their specific needs using Ning panel skillfully. I created a ning
network for my own university and I learned how to work with ning. Some of the features can be made as
your own ways some as the given configuration steps including Third Party Integration Social Media.

Ya! got lost one thing. There are a lot of options for privacy in ning. You can even block viewing you profile
from non-buddy user.

Ning can give several good services to its users and creators.
 I will prompt how to use them. Each one contains elements to be a perfect feature and one can know
how they are related by just using a ning network even with an ordinary user account not network creator.
When working on ning we have to know that every single element cannot be customized. Some of the sites
functions would be default but still suite with the need and the design UI of the modern web standard. So
we don’t need to force to make or to customize them.

I would like to discuss about the ning’s main services each a module and then make happy learning.
Register Method To A Ning Network
Here I want to show how to register to a ning site and get involve to the network. I think the very basic
element of a network especially social network is the members. We collect data entry and make some
straight view to see what kind of member will interest which kind of topics, products and subjects. First user
link to a network and if he found the network as a suite or favor of his business, hobby or something that he
want to be, he would like to see how the network is working and maybe he want to be a part.

First of all using the site need ID which ning know the email and password. Ning use email as user name
and the password that you entered during the sign up process. Ning creator can set profile questions,
others targeted critical questions and also make manual or selection method. Let say it more in
administrators’ panel.

I will show this examples with the site MMITPRO (Url= http://www.myanmaritpro.com ).

You can simply click Sign Up and then you will see a form for the entry.
Now you can clearly see what is the purpose of this social network by seeing the title and then now by
seeing the sign up questions. See they request Email for What purpose? I already told that Ning use email
as user name and it is for logging in site. Not a mailing list to receive mails from that site. And then fill out
the password and sure your password hits are the same type in both password field. And the birthday to
know your age and foresee how long did you work or learning something here IT.

See the capture step. It is a spam block applications that is available in all ning network if the site creator
enables it. It is a great helps to the site maintainer and have strong defend to java bots and others spam
related scripts. But still I found a bot in one of the ning network that will comments members profile about a
hotel. Ok lets’ go the next steps!

Opp this message!

 It is a feature of ning that let the registered member to verify he is using his own mail. It is a great way to
keep privacy and to make the network safe. There are other options that can be used on ning. You can set
your network private by setting the admin approve method for the register. (Example :creators.ning.com)

Let verify your account. Waa there is a redirect button to go to the Google mail and corresponding to the
user’s mail others mail service like hotmail, MSN and Yahoo will also be also redirected like Google Mail .

Now On the Gmail .Do you see an email from the network? Open it! Then see the content of the mail .
You are here to enter the site.You should fill out the form correctly to connect in the ning network with
specific person like same school, job title,university and working fields.Then join it.
WoW  Again Message! Right some ning creators believe that the users will value the membership if they
make their network the high privacy like this, The Admin Approval Feature.

Click Continue and then you can test your membership with limits. When you have been approved, the
network will let you know that you are approved and welcome you.

(Note: In this stage you can view the content , you can see the sites pages and you can edit your profile but
not comments, joining groups ,uploading songs or something for media )

Members Area
Now we got a part in the network with the specific ID, nick or real name. We started to find our needs and
the items that we love within the network in various ways. I am now discussion the methods with a version
of frond end user and simply hope to understand well.
You can see your resources and social statics within your profile page. And you can communicate with your
buddies through profiles and personal messages.

You can see your group list, friend list, your latest activity and the comments that you received from others
members.

You will find edit options for each block. When you want to change the default display or something you
want to add content to the block, you can readily customize your page’s blocks within it and just click the
save.

Settings That You Can Change On A Ning Network Profile Page

 Changing Your Profile Photo

  Customization The Look and Layout of Your Profile Page
 Updating Your Current Status (Both on Facebook and Twitter if the services are enable)
 Signing out from The Network
 Quick Content Add(Blog post, Personal Message and so on)
 And Custom Text Block That is work for Html and Some Scripts

Easily any front end user will understand the functions and the ways of creating a good profile for data and
social. You can easily drag and drop the content blocks with your mouse over the page except the right
corner block that is for the Creator to display the desire content for the benefits of the network.

Let me show you how to add a custom text box on your page that is not more ease than others.First Click
on the +add text .

There you can change the title Text as you like and the content can be arranged by an editor which we
called wycsiwycg editor. Now I will show you how to add a site link in this text box beautifully.

I want to make a display for a website that I wanted to my profile visitor click. So must be attractive and nice
one. Click file.
Then I got a picture with a hyper link. When any profile visitor click the picture ,he will be redirected to my
website. It is a way of making traffic from social to specific sites.

That is how to play with the page content in Ning and the basic of administration of a ning network because
it is useful not only in the member role but also in the Admin. All of the blocks, displays, styles ,banners
,headers , logos, Visitor redirects can be customized by this method and we can easily shift the settings for
ease use of a given project. And try others for yourself  .

That is all in front end of ning members’ area and now more advanced setting page.
 Click Customize My Page shown here.

Simply I got here

There you can play your profile layouts with the eyes of a designer working on color theory, changing font
styles and making the page layout. And there are a lot of themes to choose or not make your own look.
This panel is same for the creator but creator’s customization would be affect the whole network. If creator
don’t give the permission to customize the page, all members must use the default theme. Those tips would
be discussed in the advanced panel.

Let’s go to the more advanced look with appearance in ning.

Here you can see an easy setting. But you need an integrated mind that is an ability of knowing what will
happen in the looks of your page when you change any setting here. All option tab use the same tips.

But it is more
More interesting?

Because of the easy ways of using ning and finding a smart WCMS platform for every network. 

Let start the making your network as like your house. Decorate any objects by inserting codes or make
your own style sheets to your network. For the user you can learn basic web programming language by
using ning and I was also one of the beginners with CSS in ning. The creator must know some of the web
based application APIs and some for the appearance of his network. So now you must work with the CSS
right here your network. I recommend beginners to study CSS on http://www.w3schools.com/ now I also
learning on that site.

Great Option For beginners who are not familiar with FTP, Hosting, and C panel .
Simply learn the CSS and come back here. Read the frame codes and just think in a logical way to start a
great customization in ning. For the developers I recommend to edit this sheet on Notepad++ and backup
the original file in your local machine.

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