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Tabs are a great way to draw peoples attention in a Facebook Fan Page (or 'Like' page). You can customize them, and with little knowledge of HTML, you can integrate your tab into Facebook services, such as posting statuses etc. In this Instructable, I'll show you how to make you Fan Page appeal to new visitors.
Example: Jane has an event running on her Fan Page. She creates a Tab to advertise the event with a link pointing to her personal website, with a registration form. Once the person clicks on the link, a dialog box opens, and asks the user if they would like to post a status saying that she is attending this event. Her friends see the status, visits the link advertising the event on the Fan Page, and the process starts again.
Back to real life, I've been put in charge of my schools new Facebook page, and the whole aim is to advertise the school to new students, and providing information to current students. I thought that people would end up 'unliking' us if we kept posting statuses, so I turned to tabs and the magic of FBML.
Before you begin: note that this Instructable is not for Facebook profiles! This only works for Fan Pages created on Facebook.
Example: Jane has an event running on her Fan Page. She creates a Tab to advertise the event with a link pointing to her personal website, with a registration form. Once the person clicks on the link, a dialog box opens, and asks the user if they would like to post a status saying that she is attending this event. Her friends see the status, visits the link advertising the event on the Fan Page, and the process starts again.
Back to real life, I've been put in charge of my schools new Facebook page, and the whole aim is to advertise the school to new students, and providing information to current students. I thought that people would end up 'unliking' us if we kept posting statuses, so I turned to tabs and the magic of FBML.
Before you begin: note that this Instructable is not for Facebook profiles! This only works for Fan Pages created on Facebook.
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Signing UpStep 1Facebook Markup Language
FBML, or the Facebook Markup Language is the programming language which allows developers to tap into the deeper resources of Facebook. You can use some of the FBML tags to integrate various services into your Fan Page too.
FBML is very similar to HTML when writing code. All of the tags start with fb: followed by the appropriate tag name.
Some examples of FBML:
For a full list of tags, visit the Facebook Developers website at: http://developers.facebook.com/docs/reference/fbml/
FBML is very similar to HTML when writing code. All of the tags start with fb: followed by the appropriate tag name.
Some examples of FBML:
- fb:swf - allows you to embed any Adobe Flash object
- fb:name - renders the logged in users name
- fb:dialog - renders a dialog box
"We are in the process of deprecating FBML. If you are building a new application on Facebook.com, please implement your application using HTML, JavaScript and CSS. You can use our JavaScript SDK and Social Plugins to embedded many of the same social features available in FBML. While there is still functionality that we have not ported over yet, we are no longer adding new features to FBML."This affects applications and some of Facebook's Fan Pages, but we should be fine.
For a full list of tags, visit the Facebook Developers website at: http://developers.facebook.com/docs/reference/fbml/
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