Facebook is a revolutionary application in the area of social media. It has brought the whole world within the reach of our fingertips. We don’t have any difficulty in reaching out our friends and relatives staying far away from us. Where, facebook is being used to intact our nexus, it is equally being used to gain publicity. Facebook page has gathered immense popularity among public figures, business shops and as well as individuals. Many people are now using this popularity to do facebook marketing. Most of us already know how to create a facebook profile. Here, we will see how to create a facebook business page. It is also possible to create a custom facebook tab. Recently facebook has changed some layout. In this article, we will show, how one can create a facebook business page and tab.
First of all, you do need a facebook business page to create a tab. If you have a page already, move on to the next section.
1.Open the link https://www.facebook.com/pages/create.php in your browser. It will give you different types of custom facebook pages. If you just want to have your own custom facebook page, consider “Brand or Product”.
2.Once you choose “Brand or Product”, it will ask for category and you can choose website or anything that suits your facebook business page.
3.Next, following instructions, set up your photo for the page and enter relevant details about your website.
4.Now, go to Edit PageàManage Permissions. You will be able to see number of submenu on the left pane. These are setting and some more details required from you. In the basic information, you will be able to create a user name once you have at least 25 fans.
5.That is all. Now your facebook business page is created. You can invite your facebook friends to see your page.
Now you have created your facebook business page; you have posted few articles as well. But what is the url of your facebook business page? Facebook assigns random url for each page. The page url looks like below
https://www.facebook.com/pages/<page name>/<number assigned by facebook>
This url can be changed to more customized one, when you will be able to create your user name.
You can see that most of the business giants now have a custom facebook page. The business opportunity from this social media is immense. And this is an opportunity for a small business to set up their page and leverage the power of facebook marketing. Maintaining a facebook business page is much simpler and cost effective than maintaining a separate website. And hence it’s a colossal power to a start-up or a small company.
The facebook business page also provides you the privilege of having multiple custom tabs. Here we will see how we can create a facebook tab. A facebook tab can contain anything like Music, Video, google maps etc. Now, the tab necessarily points to an external link where you have all your css, html, java scripts etc. If you have your own website, you can use the same. However, please remember that you must have ssl enabled for your website. It means that your website must have a url starting with https. For this demonstration, we will use a demo site in Google. If you want, you can avail a free site provided by Heroku.
1.Go to the url http://developers.facebook.com . Click on Apps and then on “Create New Apps”. If you are coming to the facebook developers site first time, you may have to pass through few more steps.
2.This will open up a window, where you need to enter your App name and a unique name space. If you want to use the Heroku free site, tick the corresponding check box.
3.After captcha verification, it will provide you a page to enter basic verification. In the domain name enter your domain name. We will use here google.com
4.Down below, you can see number of App types given. We are creating here a facebook tab and hence click on the Page tab. This will open up few fields to be filled.
5.In the Page Tab name, enter the display name of your facebook tab.
6.In the Page Tab Url, we need to provide the url, where we will be keeping all our source files e.g. html, css etc.
7.Secure Page Tab url is same as Page Tab url with the exception of SSL. With the current implementation of facebook, you must have a https page, without which it will not work. This is very important point to note.
8.Now select an image that will be shown in your Page tab and choose Page Tab width. There are two options currently for Page Tab width i.e. 810px and 520px.
Now, once you save, your new app (tab) is ready. But, note that this is not yet attached to your custom facebook page. Take a note of the App Id shown at the top of the page when you successfully save the App. To attach the App to your facebook business page, you need to enter the below url
http://www.facebook.com/dialog/pagetab?app_id=<YOUR_APP_ID>&display=popup&next=<YOUR_URL>
Replace YOUR_APP_ID and YOUR_URL respectively with your App Id and url. Once you open this url, it will open up a page to add your created tab to your page. If you have multiple pages, it will be shown in the drop down list. Select your intended page and click on the Add button below. Now when you open your facebook business page, you will be able to see your newly created tab.
Click on the tab and it will show your website.
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