Skinning groups. Why not make it the same as profilepages???

[Zohra]

Many many times many many people asked for the possibillity to skin groups and for more features in groups.

I remember NING replying to this suggestion with: 'We want to prevent groups to look ugly and unprofessional'.

Then i ask myself: 'Why not let the NC's decide about this for their members who want to create groups??? I think ning has to take NC's seriously and let them decide what they want for their network or not.

I have a suggestion for groups that might be cool.

If someone creates a group and wants to style it, why not let them have the same styleeditor as there is for profilepages?

Give them also extra textboxes, grouprelated photoalbums, blogs, forums and video's.

Still nothing has been changed to groups, after more then a year of asking for this...

On my network, no one EVER uses groups, and i am thinking of taking this feature of my network, cuz no one uses it anyway.

Here in Holland people are used to 'Hyves-groups'. This is a social network like MYSPACE and members are able to create the coolest groups overthere, complete with a latest activity feed, an events calendar, photoalbums, a gadget / widget section where members can add multiple widgets, a forum, a commentbox, a blogsection and more more more.

I think Ning is staying a bit behind on this developement.

Personally i think groups would get a great boost if groupscreators are able to skin their groups just like they can do with their personal profilepages and have the features i requested for above.

I sincerely hope ning does something with this feature wish :) It would really give groups a great boost.

Thanks!
Zohra

[EliyYahu Yahanan Sorum]

I agree 100% I would love to have this option for my network. I think it would give things a huge boost! I have heard that SiteSuites is planning something like this. I hope soon. If we wait for Ning to do it , it may be years from now.

[Michel Lemay]

I also agree totally. I had to create 6 different networks because the group features were so limited. I hope that Ning will enhance the styling and feature options for groups.

[Skins4Ning.Com]

Michel Lemay said:

I also agree totally. I had to create 6 different networks because the group features were so limited. I hope that Ning will enhance the styling and feature options for groups.

We skins groups all the time!!!!!!!!!!!!!

http://developer.ning.com/forum/topics/1185512:Topic:143662

[Zohra]

JP this counts only for Network creators.... but what about members who want to make their own group? They should be able to skin their group in a very simple way! Not through a workaround!

JP @ WebWizCo.Com said:

Michel Lemay said:

I also agree totally. I had to create 6 different networks because the group features were so limited. I hope that Ning will enhance the styling and feature options for groups.

We skins groups all the time!!!!!!!!!!!!!

http://developer.ning.com/forum/topics/1185512:Topic:143662

[Zohra]

By the way, the link to NETWORKCREATORS is not working anymore... do you have the video hosted somewhere else?

Zohra said:

JP this counts only for Network creators.... but what about members who want to make their own group? They should be able to skin their group in a very simple way! Not through a workaround!

JP @ WebWizCo.Com said:

Michel Lemay said:

I also agree totally. I had to create 6 different networks because the group features were so limited. I hope that Ning will enhance the styling and feature options for groups.

We skins groups all the time!!!!!!!!!!!!!

http://developer.ning.com/forum/topics/1185512:Topic:143662