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Monday, July 25, 2011

Customize facebook fan page by static fbml app

static_fbml Sometimes you may need to customize your facebook fan page. Then

what will you do ?






Possible solutions:

  1. To develop a customize application for this purpose
  2. If there are any such application for this purpose then will use it (free)

When will you develop your customize application for facebook page?
If you need to use any scripting language like php, asp, jsp. You may need to call some facebook api then you should choose this solution. Click here to see how to develop customize facebook application for fan page

Is there any such app for this purpose if i don’t need to use scripting language like php, jsp?
Yeah, there is a nice app developed by Facebook called Static FBML

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Please visit this app. In the figure you’ll see there is an option “Add to my page”. Just click here to add this app in your page. After clicking it you’ll see the pages’ name to those you are admin. Then visit your page and click Edit Page. Here you’ll see one instance of this app


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Now click Edit. You’ll see the following figure:


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Now write a title in the “Box Title” option and in the “FBML part“ write css/html and FBML to customize your page tab. After doing that, please click Save Changes.

Now visit your page. In the right side you’ll see a (+) icon like the following figure.
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and in the search availabe tabs: write the title you put as Box Title.

To see sample of fbml code that you want to use in this app, visit my another post and copy/paste the code of that post in this app’s FBML part and check what happens.

Advantage:

  1. no need to buy hosting
  2. all data are stored in facebook database
  3. simple to use
  4. it’s free

Disadvantage:

  1. you couldn’t use scripting language like php/jsp/asp
  2. you couldn’t call facebook api


source: http://thinkdiff.net/facebook/customize-facebook-fan-page-by-static-fbml-app/

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