my list of things ning migrators will mkiss
Ning To Jamroom
Ken_Rich:
I think you maybe missed her point on that one. It's glaringly obvious to Ningsters, but Jamsters seem oblivious - go figure - lol.
So take this as a feature request! Basically it's a profile "landing page" issue.
We are used to a landing page that displays a "sample" of all of our content categories on one page. We had "drag & drop" containers, but we could live without those if the layout was good. Jamroom only shows one category at a time, and you have to switch views to see the rest.
Each small representative category can have a show more button, check this page for an example -
http://indiegospel.org/profile/KenRich (or see screenshot attached).
Notice blog and discussion titles in small boxes with "show more". Notice 3 video icons, leading to more videos, notice there is a text box where the member can put whatever they wish using a TINYmce style WYSIWYG editor. There is a playlist style music player (with pop-out embed code), a picture slideshow, etc., - all of these on the same page.
To a Ningster, content on Jamroom seems to be indexed and managed well, but it's highly compartmentalized. One has to click 10 tabs in someones profile to see what they have, instead of one representative page.
We would like a profile landing page that does what the home page does, by pulling up representative samples for display, which lead to the full views.
...It's no good to say to "non coders" coming over from Ning that Jamroom supports this, but then expect them to modify the templates themselves. They need something already modified, something that works that way "out of the box".
This is exactly right, and what I was trying to get at.
Especially the last part: "It's no good to say to "non coders" coming over from Ning that Jamroom supports this, but then expect them to modify the templates themselves. They need something already modified, something that works that way "out of the box"."
Let's not forget something very important-
Most people who signed onto Ning did so because Ning does all these things for you out of the box, without expecting you to be able to tweak any codes at all. Yes, there are various things we can tweak and code into Ning 2.0 and even more in 3.0...BUT we don't 'have to' in order to get a good looking functional social network going right away. It's drag and drop and that's what people pay Ning for month after month. SO...keep in mind that if a ning customer knew how to do all the stuff they wouldn't be on Ning to begin with- they'd have been on their own site long ago. Even Soaring who knows a lot about CSS has been floundering around in confusion on here for a while and needing lots of help- so if that's the case with him imagine those of us like Ken and myself.
My only point is that I think a feature like this (showing a sampling of a member's various content on their profile page in ONE place, just like on NIing) should be BUILT INTO the main Ning skin BY DEFAULT- in the primary NingBundle that new ningsters will experience when they first open the goodies.
Yes sure, people can experiment with all kinds of skins and template tweaking later when they get their feet wet...and the wonderful possibilities are endless.
But if it's at all preventable, there must not be a moment of feeling your spirit and heart sink like a stone when the customer first installs, imports, and opens their site for the very first time. This can make or break everything.
updated by @strumelia: 12/29/14 09:23:54AM
