James Wilson –blog

Ning is pretty cool. The video shows you can do custom CSS and other neat things. I've only found the ability to change the header name and color. Or change the questions that it asks you for the profile.

They also have a feature to edit the php code itself, and use SFTP to upload whatever you want. Pretty nifty.

But the best feature is the ability to jack someone else's network's questions and set up with one easy click. You can pay something like $5 a month to have this ability removed from your site.

I wanted to create paintball.ning.com, but that was taken, so I went there. Saw he had kinda set it up, then I saw the 'Create your own…', and entered paintballers.ning.com, and I had made a clone of his site with nice questions already set up. So check out paintballers.ning.com, but not paintball.ning.com, because it's the same, but not run by me…

Update: It looks like all the neat stuff is done during the creation process and not afterwards. Kinda lame. Maybe I'll redo it some time, but most likely I'll just say screw it.

Update 2: Maybe not. Made a new one (lol) and I have all the fancy features it shows in the video. Maybe the site that I cloned was old or something, but from the looks of it, it doesn't have any ads, though the new one does. Meh.