With Facebook pages being one of the main ways to effectively promote your blog, business, band or organization online, this beginner’s guide to customized Facebook pages will help you to get to grips with creating a simple, personalized Facebook page. This will give you more flexibility to direct visitors to your best, most relevant content, instead of just showing your most recent wall posts.
1. The first thing to note is that Facebook has moved away from hosting the customized pages themselves as FBML (Facebook mark-up language), instead favoring iFrames to display content that you create and host yourself as HTML or PHP pages. For anyone not confident enough to write their own code, you can download the template file and folder below, and upload it to your server. The elements can be changed to contain your own background picture, banner image, logo and text. You can also tweak the locations of all of these by simply changing the numbers that relate to each items position in relation to the top and left of the page. [Read more…] about A Beginner’s Guide to Customized Facebook Pages