Our first PSU will be held on  October 1s 6PM central US. If this is a horrible time for the broader  population let me know because US members on our site are mostly outside the US. Sign up for the event here and also join the PSU group where you will be given the freeware software we will need for the 1st PSU.  

Menu 101

This first PSU will open up the box and see what is inside the PSU menu, also looking at the options for customization. Each session will end with a question and answer period. If you already have some questions on the menu, please post them in the event and we will touch on them in the presentation - see ya there

Is it just me? Did I miss something? I've been known to do that and anounce a new socialgo feature after it had already been discontinued! haha.

The New Profile Designer

Well it's here.. the new Socialgo Profile designer. Now we can just throw in the towel and become mini myspace? SG Forbid! this thing allows you to tell your members what they can touch and not touch... which on my site there will only be a few options - cause i'm that way.

instal and configure

You will find the little doodad in your SG widget box on the right hand side of your Layout Manager as usual. You need to drag it to your "I" zone at the very bottom then double click (this feature doesn't seenm to work in the ne safari) or click the edit widget up top and you get this..

look at all those Options!

Now if you check all of them your members can do a beautiful page, effecting many parts such as the content boxes, the header font, color, background, nav, nav color, background image, and the list goes on. Just look at what your site will look like.. isn't it exciting! 

How it works

Once you configure your new shiney widget your members will see a new button on thier profile page right there with the other configure buttons.



Now, the widget kinda messes up your site when it opens, and it has a few bugs at the moment that I won't go into because I'm sure SG is busy fixing them as I write. you'll the drop down at the top of your page, and there you can select eather color or advanced.





Color takes care of Color;) and advanced is your background images.It's pretty straight forward. The changes happen as you change them, close the widget and your done. Here is what I did in my profile.

If your trying to put a logo on one of our templates this will work for most, you will just need to adjust the height.. don't mess with the width because it already spans the page. As you see I use the !important to overide anything in our original style sheet.. (comes in handy) One More thing for the love of  Al Gore's green earth don't try to add headers and logos through the SG network designer.. it is not made to work with templates from the template store (yet).

 

Ya baby... all right there all the time.. check out this new toolbar we've been working on that tidys up all the waisted space and into a nice tight horizontal row. 

 


It covers your search bar, add list, managed account, My stuff (like my topics, my blogs etc..) and your mail inbox and all custom icons and graphics. sweeww all in about 33px height 0:



Does it work though? well.. i certainly hope so, i was hired to free up some side bar real-estate so we'll find out tomorrow when i start testing.