New Welcome Box ... Not Entirely Welcome

[Steve Smith]

It was good to get an email from Ning today announcing new themes, and other changes, but I was surprised to see the changes to the Welcome bar. Even more surprised to find out that over-night this had been rolled out to everyone in my network. The new Welcome Bar completely blew away the custom welcome bar I'd made for my network. Ouch!

So first question, what is the CSS to completely turn off the huge new Welcome bar? We have a private network for now, so the big "Invite Friends" is useless. I'm planning to make a new HTML box that contains some welcome info (which unfortunately they won't be able to remove). My HTML box will probably look alot like the old green one.

btw I'm all for progress, but its seems like you need to have a better system for promoting these types of changes into production.

[Skins4Ning.Com]

.xg_theme-button-bc {
display:none !important;
}

[Steve Smith]

That seemed to do the trick, thanks for help!

[Skins4Ning.Com]

Anytime!

[R. Buijs]

Thanks! I thought the welcome box was also way too big and there was a promotion for NING? .. I thoughth I pay to have no NING promotion on my site, so that was weird....

So really happy with this: Ningmaster thanks for the code!

[Beth Alexander]

A side effect of using:

.xg_theme-button-bc {
display:none !important;
}

to turn this off on our network is the icons in the center of the flash upload modules for photos, videos are now invisible so there is just a big white box, it still functions but talk about confuse the user...

Is there a way to get these to appear without needing to display the welcome box? I've dug around in the CSS but so far nothing I've tried has worked.

[Beth Alexander]

This works in making the Welcome box invisible, but still leaves the icons in the various media uploaders:

/*This works to make welcome box invisible but leave the icons for photos, videos, music flash uploaders*/
#welcome {
display:none !important;
}


Beth Alexander said:

A side effect of using:

.xg_theme-button-bc {
display:none !important;
}

to turn this off on our network is the icons in the center of the flash upload modules for photos, videos are now invisible so there is just a big white box, it still functions but talk about confuse the user...

Is there a way to get these to appear without needing to display the welcome box? I've dug around in the CSS but so far nothing I've tried has worked.

[Lee Crystal]

Thank goodness I found this answer. The way I have my site setup the popup for add content was really nasty looking.