National Geographic's Collectors Corner

Collaborative site for collectors, dealers, & anyone interested in our history.

Possible Ning 3.0 Migration and Additional Costs

This site is currently hosted under Ning 2.0. A newer version is available that offers the features below at an additional cost.

NING 3.0 boasts advantages and quality improvements over the Ning 2.0 of the platform. These include:

  1. Advanced customization
    • More themes and more tools to customize the design of the website.
    • An integrated Landing Page Builder to help design a professional home page.
  2. Better control over website and content
    • Customize the structure of any page and easily add desired features.
    • Create multiple instances of each feature (blogs, forums, videos, etc.).
    • Control members access to specific features based on their member category.
    • More flexibility when structuring the website making it easier for members to find the content they need.
  3. Flexible privacy control
    • Decide who can contribute content to the website and use its specific feature instances.
  4. Mobile responsiveness by default
    • Since most traffic comes from mobile devices nowadays, this website needs to adjust to different screen sizes. Also, mobile responsiveness is one of the major SEO factors that influence the website rankings on search engines.
  5. SEO features
    • Due to frequent changes in SEO regulations, NING 2.0 was lacking SEO functionality for a long time. Meanwhile, NING 3.0 offers SEO tools to help improve the online visibility of the website.
  6. Advanced eCommerce
    • With NING 3.0, content can be monetized, accept donations, or set up multi-level membership scenarios in which different member categories have different access rights for adding/viewing content.
  7. Advanced API
    • The next-gen API provides users with more flexibility in terms of advanced customization and scalability.
  8. Polls
    • Launching polls and surveys allow you to get feedback from your members on different topics.
  9. Greater development potential
    • Newer versions of the product will be compatible with NING 3.0 websites only, offering even broader possibilities for customization and scalability.
  10. Regular updates
    • While the development of NING 2.0 has been stopped, NING 3.0 gets constant improvements and updates.

Addition Costs

Ning 2.0 costs $239.90 annually and supports up to 10,000 members and 10 GB of storage.

Ning 3.0 costs $588.00 annually and supports up to 10,000 members and 10 GB of storage. The incremental cost is $348.10.

Questions

  1. Does Ning 3.0 provide enough new functionality to make the migration worthwhile?
  2. Are any members willing to help fund the additional cost of Ning 3.0? If so, send me a private Email.

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