Great Apps to Customize Your Facebook Fan Page. With 500 million registered users, there’s never been an online platform with as much marketing potential as Facebook.
Nowadays all the buzz around promoting your business or brand is focused towards Twitter, but Twitter is relatively small when it comes to audience size and isn’t a platform that offers much leeway to promote your brand. Facebook on the other hand is in its prime and is ready to be taken advantage of. With the ability to get vanity usernames & URLs, flexible profile pictures, extremely customizable welcome pages, ability to have a conversation that is not limited by character size and a bunch of apps and an option to add custom coded apps, it is now possible to promote your brand left, right and center via Facebook fan pages. After the jump we will touch down the tip of the Facebook fan page customization iceberg. Static FBML. Adding an iFrame to your Facebook Application in 2010. UPDATE: August 19, 2010: Facebook announced on its Developer Blog that “We will begin supporting IFrames for Page tabs in the next few months.”
This is in tandem with Facebook’s announced move away from FBML and towards iFrames for applications and Page tabs. Original Post: In early 2010, Facebook made some modifications to the API which made the embedding of iFrames more restricted. Although they are no longer supported in Static FBML tabs, iFrames can still be implemented on application Canvas Pages. However, rather than an iFrame loading automatically — as it previously did on Canvas Pages — a user action — a click — is now required to load the iFrame. In a PowerPoint that Facebook circulated in late 2009, Facebook explained the upcoming changes: Home.