How to Start Your Facebook Fan Page

Facebook Pages are so useful because you can include everything that relates to your business in one place and makes it easy to interact with your existing and potential customers. Your Page can include:

Overview of your business
Your website and contact information
Press releases
Videos
Photo or image galleries
Blog RSS feeds
Twitter updates
Your news and updates
Customer interaction

Create a Facebook Page

Creating a Fan Page is easy once you know where to access the feature.

Scroll to the bottom of the page and click on Advertising

Click on Pages

Click on

Customise Your Facebook Page

(with grateful thanks to Tamar Weinberg)

Do a search for “static FBML” on Facebook (or just click here), and click “Add to my Page” in the upper-left. A dialog pop-over will appear with a list of Pages you administer. Select the Page you want to customise by clicking the “Add to Page” button next to the Page, and when you click the button it will disappear from the list. Now click “Close”.

Now what you want to do is create your tab. To create the tab, just go to your Page and click the link, “Edit Page” in the upper-left below your main Page image. Now when you scroll down you will see a subsection called “FBML”. Click on the “Application Settings” link for that subsection, and another popover dialog will appear. Click “add” next to the Tab field and click Okay. You’ve now just added a blank Tab called “FBML” to your Page. Now you need to customse it.

Add Content to Your Custom Tab

If you go view your Page now, you’ll notice when you click the “>>” tab there is now an “FBML” option in the drop-down. If you click on it, that tab appears in the list of tabs at the top, and you can drag it around (to the extent that Facebook allows you). You’ll notice the tab is completely blank. Let’s add some content to it.

To add content, click on “Edit Page” again on the left below your Page image. Go to the “FBML” subsection again, but this time click the “Edit” link. Now you’ll be taken to a very simple form with a “Box Title” field and an “FBML” field. This is your Canvas.

Let’s start by changing the title of the tab. As I mentioned earlier, the tab, by default gets called “FBML” when you add it. You probably don’t want to keep that name, so I recommend changing it to something productive, like “Welcome”, or “Introduction”. You can name it whatever you like, depending on your purpose!

Now you’ll want to enter some content. The “FBML” field will take almost any basic HTML. You don’t need to include any <html>, <head>, or <body> tags, as the HTML you enter will only take the place of that whitespace you just saw. All the header stuff is taken care of for you. Play with it and see what you can do.

Facebook Pages Product Guide

For more information or advice on Facebook Pages call Adrian Chambers or Tim Sale on 0117 952 0105 or use the contact form to tell us your requirements, we can suggest the most appropriate solution for your display needs.