Easy way to set up an FaceBook.com fan page

Rolands Umbrovskis — Mon, 03 May 2010 06:02:23 +0000

With growing popularity of Facebook.com and their 300 million active users, clients start to ask me for simple solutions on how to integrate their products or services in FaceBook.com fan pages. even if I’m not creating currently any apps for Facebook (just testing).

In this post I will give some useful links to some applications, how to integrate Your/clients products and services in FaceBook.com fan pages. What we will put on Fan page:

Information about company
Contact information
Some latest news and/or Blog RSS
Customer support information

Setting Up Your FaceBook Fan Page

First of all we will need to create an FaceBook.com Fan page. Easy instruction on step-by-step basis. After all basic information is included. Based on Your needs, You have to make choice what for You will use Your fan page.Later it will be easier to add more applications.

Static FBML

With Static FBML it’s very easy to create new tab on fan page, filling with basic rich content (HTML, CSS, Flash). Since it’s extended HTML (It use FaceBook HTML features), You can event create some greeting text for users, based on their profile information. This is nice start where to include Your logo, product image, promotional or links to Your home page’s content pages.

After Static FBML it’s time to create Your own FaceBook application for Fan page.

Simply RSS

Another great application is Simply RSS. If You have RSS feed from Your blog or news page, this will add them to page and Your profile. Simply paste Your RSS feeds in form and add them to page.

It’s easy…

This is just start point while I’m working on my first FaceBook application.

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Final cut for my first WordPress plugin

Rolands Umbrovskis — Wed, 14 Apr 2010 13:17:37 +0000

More than one month ago I published my first WordPress plugin “Draugiem.lv/lapas fan page” for social network in Latvia draugiem.lv (FRYPE.COM). And now I want to make final cut with version 1.0 (0.1.5) and upgrade it.

For now on my To-Do list:

make for widget separate administration page,
rewrite JSON parsing script from Javascript to PHP,
and remove counter* and make it optional.

*counter reads ONLY clicks on profile and page links, nothing more

Next on list

An FaceBook.com application for pages and profiles. Now testing.

Download page for WordPress plugin on WordPress.org http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/draugiemlvlapas-fan-page/