Mike Nicholson's dashboard

The Ning Blog: http://blog.ning.com

It's a very active blog that contains more content than just new feature descriptions, though, (including lots of featured networks) so you may want to use the filters on the right side to find the entries for which you're looking.

It looks like the songs being uploaded have title information (and other metadata) already embedded into the mp3 files. This is called id3 (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Id3).

Also, this looks like traditional Chinese. When I had Google try to translate it, it came up with this:
䤀mix䈀礀climb climb climb䐀渀rash渀䌀氀measures Love

Since it sounds like you'd prefer English metadata on songs uploaded to your network, just have your members update the title, etc. on the songs before the upload them in their preferred mp3 player (iTunes works)

It may be offline or something. Try going to http://www.ning.com, logging in there, and finding your network there. If that does not help, head over to help.ning.com and send support a note.

I just checked out my network and it does not look like modules on the main page have unique HTML IDs. This means that you will not be able to use CSS alone to accomplish this.

You can, however, do some creative JavaScript magic to find and replace the existing module headers with specific images.

You can add it to most places on a network (text boxes, and probably forum posts) just like you would any other web page.

http://lmgtfy.com/?q=embedding+flash+...

There used to be a technique that was a bit of a hack. It involved logging into the network file system and editing some XML files. It does not appear to be supported any longer, but Google Cache can do amazing things:

Google cache of wiki page on developer.ning.com: http://tinyurl.com/mqtnxz

If you're posting to a network of which you're a normal member, you will not be able to post iframe embed code. iframes can be used to do some pretty mean stuff, so they're filtered out on most websites.

You probably can, however, post them to networks that you're an admin of into text boxes on the main page.

If you're trying to upload them using the video feature, you may be out of luck. If it does not work, i'd send your embed code over to the support team to see if they can add to the support list.

The infamous "Operation Aborted" error in IE6/IE7 is a real bummer. It happens when the JavaScript engine in IE crashes. Since it crashes there's sadly no error log to check.

There is hope, though. Time to do some deductive debugging. If you don't want your members to see a disturbance, do this while your network is offline.

Try removing these one at a time until the errors go away.
- Anything in your analytics box
- the contents of your ads box (if you have the run your own ads premium service)
- any modules in your right column (especially text boxes)
- If you remove all of these and you're still observing the issue, try disabling network features one at a time.

Once you've found the specific element that is triggering the error, you'll need to fiddle with it until you've isolated the specific tag that's causing the problem. I've noticed that < center > tags seem to trigger this often.