How to dress up your Facebook page
Everybody invests in having an online presence, but most leave their Facebook page rather bland and vanilla flavoured!
Today, Facebook Pages look quite alike for the most part. That might be because people don’t have time to invest in them, nor have the qualifications to create an immersive page, or maybe they simply don’t care. But if you own a brand, you should care.
Making a page by yourself is not that hard, but it involves some basic HTML/FMBL familiarity, and many people don’t want to be hassled with any of that.
We think it’s time for all this to change though!
Oh and before we get started, if you are still wondering what the difference between having a Facebook Group vs Facebook Page is, please read this to go for (*cough* Facebook Page) the right one.
So how do we spice up our standard run of the mill Facebook page?
There are 4 different options you can take at the moment.
1) Befriend a geek with some knowledge on FBML (Facebook Markup Language). This is Facebook’s own flavour of HTML and is used within their walled garden for application development and design. This option will grant you the most flexibility, yet is also the toughest to get going. Especially if you aren’t familiar with anybody who can help you out.
2) Our second option is Pagemodo.
This is a service that allows you to create a “Welcome” or “About” tab without any static FBML knowledge, or too much work. You simply log in and use their editor to create styles and panels of your choice. The idea is that you customise this “landing page” that your visitors see for the first time with brand colours, logo and the most important message you want them to immediately see in an aim to attract new visitors as well as provide an instant sharp message to those who see it for the first time. Check it out.
3) Third, comes tabsite. Similar in style, has a comprehensive content manager and packs in a bit more under the hood, but also comes with a basic pricing structure depending on what you would like to use.
4) The last option, is asking us for a custom build. We build Facebook apps upon signup for users and can design something based on more specific requirements if need be. Contact us for more info on pricing.
Until Facebook implement tools of their own, we need to resort to 3rd party services such as these or beefen up our tech knowledge on HTML/FBML, to add to our social media campaigns.
On signing off, check out some great implementations from well known brands that have taken the approach of dressing up their Facebook pages:
Wow. Didn’t know it was possible. This blog is awesome. Always finding out new things to implement
Great tips and suggestions to make the Facebook page look nice than the default one.I m using Facebook but don’t have much idea about such things.I will make such one of mine.
Thank you……
Gush, this is just perfect!…
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