A few questions re: the "follow me" skin
Design and Skin Customization
All these things are easily done -
Quote: 1)having a section on the right hand side of the timeline showing the avatars of members worth following......(I as the admin would designate who these members would be)
Add an 'admin only' checkbox to the profile update form using the Form Designer. Call it something like 'profile_recommended', then add a search (search="profile_recommended = on") to the jrCore_list smarty function to show these profiles in the appropriate template.
Quote: 2) Similarly on the right hand side of the timeline showing the members that are online at that moment by way of displaying their avatars...preferably with a green dot appearing over their avatar Facebook style.
I think this has been resolved in another thread to created?
Quote: 3) Is it possible to create a standalone page showing a grid of all the members currently that joined right from the begining...again just a grid of avatars is what I am looking for
Use the Site Builder to do this. Create the page, set its layout to be a single cell with 100% width then add a 'list' widget to that cell, selecting profiles and one of the grid templates.
Let us know if you have any further questions on this. Alternatively we could quote for doing this for you. Its pretty straightforward and would only take a couple of hours.