15 Handy Facebook Tips/Tricks

by AndrewG

Guys at Facebook are working very hard to make your social communication more convenient and easy. Someone can ask ‘what new things can they create, if a lot of different stuff was invented long ago”? The answer is – a lot of! In this post we present you very useful and handy tips you might have missed. They might be very helpful if you want to stay connected better with your friends.

5 Tips to designing a custom up tabs using FBML

Luckily for us print designers, imitating print design on the web is becoming increasingly popular. Here are a few tips I can offer to other transitioning print-to-web designers like myself.

Adding a Newsletter Subscribe Form to Your Facebook Fan Page

Now that you’ve set up your Facebook fan page, you’re thinking, “wouldn’t it be great if I could get my fans to signup for my email newsletter?” Now you can!

Adding an opt-in box to your Facebook page

If you have already have an opt-in box on your website, why not add it to your Facebook fan page? Most likely you have more activity and conversation on your Facebook fan page than on your website, so it’s a great place to have people opt into your list.

Facebook Merge Tag Cheatsheet

FBML Tutorial – How to Add a Comment Box to Your Fan Page

On a custom FBML page, you can include a commenting box and actively seek testimonials, thoughts, interactions, contest reactions, etc. It is one of the easiest and most effective ways to truly engage your visitors with both your brand and each other.

How to “Friend” Someone on Facebook & Hide It From Your Status Updates

I’m sure that this has happened to you before. Someone you have ties to, whether it’s a co-worker, your boss, or even worse, a parent, has finally discovered social networking and wants to be your newest Facebook friend.

How to add an Image to FBML app for Facebook Fan Page

And adding custom images to your Facebook Fan Page is a great way to brand your own business on your page.

How To Add Facebook’s New Commenting Plugin To WordPress Blogs

How to Add Multimedia Content to Facebook Fan Page Using Static FBML

Facebook fan page has emerged as a major social media outpost for businesses and individuals. Fortunately, facebook gives us ample flexibility to customize our fan page as per our needs and taste. One of the customization options at our disposal is – Static FBML (Facebook Markup Language). Although there are infinite customization possibilities with FBML, we as a user rarely use this powerful feature to its full extent. One such possibility is – ‘Adding Multimedia Content to Facebook Fan Page’. Let’s see how to do it the easy way.

How To Instal FBML On Your Facebook Fan Page

How To Place Facebook Chat On Firefox Sidebar

Facebook Chat is cool, at least it allows you to send instant messages to online Facebook contacts. However I’m not really a fan of the chat bar being at the bottom of the page, what if I’ve left Facebook but still wants to remain chatting with my Facebook contacts? If you are using Firefox, you can place the Facebook Chat at the sidebar.

How to Put a Youtube Channel in a Facebook Fan Page

This is a quick video tutorial on how to put a Youtube channel or Playlist into your Facebook Fan Page.

How To Use Facebook Analytics To Build Your Brand

Facebook analytics are critically important because it helps you – the marketer, business owner, consultants, SEO’s, writers, bloggers, etc… – work smarter, not harder.

How to Use FBML to Display Your Profile Photo on a Custom Facebook Fan Page

Tutorial – Customize Facebook Pages with “Static FBML” application

This is a how-to article on expanding your Facebook Fan Page (aka Business Page) by using the application Static FBML which allows you to add new “application tabs” to your tabs or box which can incorporate CSS, HTML, Facebook’s flavor of JavaScript, FBJS, and Facebook’s mark-up language FBML. FBML has greatly expanded what is possible on Facebook Pages and, if you’re sufficiently skilled with CSS/HTML and, optionally, FBML, you can make some really fine looking Pages.

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