Recently I reviewed a lot of custom Facebook pages for my PC World article, 14 Creative Ways to Use Facebook Pages. I found a couple of problems with a number of pages that need to be addressed or hopefully the page owners pan to resolve.
These issues relate to the deprecation of Static FBML and the SSL requirement that was implemented October 2011.
A couple of weeks ago I wrote about Facebook’s new SSL requirement and services that you could use to manage that.
I recently discovered that one of my favorite hosts, Hostgator, offers free SSL certificates, even on shared hosting.
Here’s how you can set this up. Of course, you must be hosting with Hostgator.
Facebook has been making a lot of changes recently and for once, most of them are positive – they are adding useful features rather than confusing us with interface redesigns.
One change, announced in May, is going to affect those of us who have custom Facebook pages built with iframes. Starting October 1, 2011, all Facebook applications are going to be required to have SSL certificates. Since a custom page is considered to be a Facebook app, pages will have to fulfill this requirement.
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