canada.rob's dashboard

I'm interested in turning off ads on my Welcome page.

I wonder if this would work: (but I will bounce if off the GetSat community before i copy/paste my way to Carpal Tunnel...)

* remove the ad codes from the 'Ads & Custom HTML'
* create custom HTML widgets at the top and bottom of every other page (except the Welcome)
* put the top and bottom ad codes in those, respectively

Thoughts?
Thanks
Rob

Hi, thanks for the response, Luke.

I can hide it, sure, but I'd just like to turn it off.

It's like a pair of training wheels on my bicycle.
:-)

Another "nice to have" would be the ability for the users to choose the language for the interface...

i.e. let each user override the default language dictionary for the network.

This started out as a list of 10 ( I was going to do 5 and 5 in each section... but I went over a bit...)

Rob's List

Top Back-End Wishes
1.) Support for a service like RPX.com. 1 widget per sign-on service will start to get pricey
2.) User management: a mass-recycle function, to expunge members who have left and wipe their content.
3.) Email validation for existing members. If their messages are a hard bounce - don't let them login until they update their email.
4.) Auditing and Reporting - easy setup of reports to be viewed or emailed: "new members this week", "members who cancelled this week", etc.
5.) More granular control for members to publically display information on a private network (like facebook) using a vanity URL. i.e. http://network.com/robby will load the framework for the network and perhaps a thumbnail of the user (if selected by the user)
6.) An externally hosted SocialGo-Status page - showing green/red lights for the systems that make up the hosting environment... i.e. webservers all up, but email is back-logged/down, etc.
7.) A development roadmap: including features, target quarters for release. i.e. Chat: Q3-09

Top Member-Facing Wishes
1.) Familiar chat interface (comet-chat), but also the ability to create/join room-based chat with more than 1 other
2.) More Ajax in interface. Eliminate page refreshes while adding a friend request, or updating status
3.) Allow for selection of displayed users, videos, photos in "featured" blocks, by letting Admins select which items to feature.
4.) Allow individual users to select an RSS feed as their blog source (for those users who have external blogs already)
5.) Allow users (or admins), to rss-enable socialgo-hosted blogs for consumption by external apps (supporting authentication, where required by the setting of the individual network)
6.) Extend the rating system (now available on videos) to photographs, blog entries, etc., and provide a link to the listing of "highest rated blog/video/photo"

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Example of Status Page:

Ok, well I haven't purchased the widget yet... but I would hope it's more intuitive for existing users of my own site...

Similar setups I've encountered will check the external authentication information against the internal, and offer to link the accounts... that is what I'd like to see.