Comments on: How to Add a Custom Tab to a Facebook Fan Page

By: Kim Woodbridge

Kim Woodbridge — Fri, 20 Aug 2010 14:34:01 +0000

Hopefully they will have more info and some standard ways of using the iframes.

And, of course they are – they wouldn’t want us to not have to redo our work every couple of months ;-)

Thanks for the info!

By: Karianne

Karianne — Fri, 20 Aug 2010 14:24:54 +0000

thank you. i looked at that but couldn’t quite get it to waork, but i’ll see if i can figure it out. actually, i see the “big news” today is that facebook is moving away from fbml:
http://www.allfacebook.com/facebook-moving-away-from-fbml-2010-08
so maybe i’ll just wait… :-)

By: Kim Woodbridge

Kim Woodbridge — Fri, 20 Aug 2010 14:12:51 +0000

Hi Karianne – You could start here

http://developers.facebook.com/docs/reference/fbml/iframe

Personally, I haven’t done much work with iframes – I tend to use fbml.

By: Karianne

Karianne — Thu, 19 Aug 2010 15:34:54 +0000

Hi Kim, I am trying to find out how to have the content in an fbml tab be an iframe. Do you have or know where I can find a “recipe” for that? assuming it is possible to put an iframe there…
any info or hint would be much appreciated :)

By: Kim Woodbridge

Kim Woodbridge — Sat, 14 Aug 2010 12:08:00 +0000

Hi Ginn – On the pages on which I am the admin I am seeing them the way you describe. On other pages they are still the “old” way. If you are the admin on both of those pages, I’m not quite sure why you are seeing one with the sidebar and one without. It’s possible Facebook is rolling out the changes differently than we expect.

Thanks!

By: Ginn

Ginn — Fri, 13 Aug 2010 22:21:54 +0000

Hi Kim — for some reason, when I add my FBML, it appears fine on the tab, other than the fact that my the entire left side of the page has the same content as you would find if I were on my default fan page or wall page for instance. I can’t seem to find any setting to surpress this and only show the FBML content. Oddly, i have another facebook page where the left panel is surpressed, so either i have a setting wrong, or something changed.

Any ideas if I am missing something? By the way, I like your site. thanks for sending the link.

By: Kim Woodbridge

Kim Woodbridge — Fri, 13 Aug 2010 20:43:58 +0000

Hi Ginn – That is the way they should currently work. They will no longer work that way after Facebook reduces the page width on 8/23. The Quill page is going to need to reduce the width of the tabs by that date or their content is going to be cut off.

http://www.kimwoodbridge.com/facebook-removing-boxes-and-reducing-width-of-fan-page-custom-tabs-very-soon/

By: Ginn

Ginn — Fri, 13 Aug 2010 19:03:07 +0000

Does anyone know how to make your FBML tab full page so you dont get the panels running down the left hand side of the page.

Look for instance what quill does.

http://www.facebook.com/quill#!/quill?v=app_7146470109

thanks!

By: Kim Woodbridge

Kim Woodbridge — Thu, 12 Aug 2010 00:55:50 +0000

Hi John – You can’t select a page or you can’t add static fbml?

By: john

john — Tue, 10 Aug 2010 23:43:06 +0000

Add Static FBML to your Page
Select which Page you wish to add Static FBML to what do i do if i can’t ?