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Customize Your Facebook Fan Page

From the previous article “Create Facebook Fan Page With Welcome Page“, I wrote how to make a Facebook fan page with a simple welcome page. Now I would like to show you more cool features that you can do with a Facebook Fan Page.

In a Facebook Fan Page you can add:

  • Hide exclusive content only for fans — You can show your exclusive content or download link only for your fans, or your visitors that like your page. You can do it with the “visible-to-connection” tag from FBML. See the example below:
<fb:visible-to-connection>
// This is only visible to fans only
<h2>Welcome back!</h2>
<p>Download a <a href="link to download">gift present</a> from me.</p>.
<fb:else>
This is visible to people who are not fans yet
<img src="http://somewhere.com/like.jpg">
</fb:else>
</fb:visible-to-connection>

See it in action here.

  • Add your RSS feed — Simply add this application “RSS Feed for Pages” to your page. Then give your RSS feed, and it will show the latest feed from your blog or website.
  • Add a YouTube video — To add a YouTube video is easy, you just need the “fb:swf” tag in your Static FBML page. Example:
<fb:swf swfsrc="http://www.youtube.com/v/YOUTUBE_ID"
imgsrc="http://img.youtube.com/vi/YOUTUBE_ID/default.jpg"
width="480" height="360" />

Note: replace YOUTUBE_ID with your YouTube ID.

  • Add a SlideShare presentation — From point 3, besides YouTube video you can also add another SWF object to your Fan Page like a SlideShare presentation. Example:
<fb:swf swfsrc='http://slideshare.net/swf/ssplayer2.swf?doc=SLIDESHARE_ID' width='515' height='425' imgsrc="thumbnail.jpg" />

Note: replace SLIDESHARE_ID with your SlideShare ID.

  • Add a chat room with Meebo — Meebo provides a Flash chat room, so we can add it to our Facebook Fan Page as well, so your fans could chat with others. Sample:
<fb:swf swfsrc='http://widget.meebo.com/mm.swf?MEEBO_ID' width='515' height='425' imgsrc="chat-thumbnail.jpg" />

Note: replace MEEBO_ID with your Meebo ID.

  • Add your podcasts or your MP3 music — Adding a podcast or giving your music sample in your Fan Page could increase the number of your visitors. Be sure to add this cool feature as well.
<fb:mp3 src="http://example.com/yourpodcast.mp3"  title="Music Title" artist="Your name" />>

Well there are still thousands of tricks, but I think that’s more than enough to start with. Make your Facebook Fan Page more professional and well designed; this will bring you more credibility.