How To Easily Create A Custom Tab For Your Facebook Fan Page For Free
GOSO provides engaging Facebook applications that boast of making your Facebook page thank you. The Applets offered by GOSO provide a simple way for you to elevate your Facebook experience thereby pleasing your fans and target audience. Each Applet is a nice blend of easy to use options along with smart advanced features.
The Welcome Applet by GOSO is an easy to use free Facebook application which allows you to customize the welcome Facebook Page using a simple content management system, image or HTML. The Welcome Applet provides a website experience right on your Facebook Fan Page. It’s like the ‘Front Door’ to your brand on Facebook.
Design a Facebook Page that truly represents what your company, business or organization is all about. You can create a page as simple as adding some text and selecting an image background or design your own image graphic and upload it. You can upload your own HTML, CSS or FLASH to show off your brand in style. The list of cool features is endless.
GOSO’s Welcome Applet is an easy to use, customizable smart solution that can make your business, blog or website’s Facebook page stand apart from the crowd. It solves the problem of sparing time in writing lines of FMBL or HTML. Infact, smart solution that provides a fuss-free way of creating custom welcome tab for any Facebook Fan Page.
You simply need to select the page you’d like to install the applet on and grant the app the permissions it needs to work. Thereafter, customize your welcome tab as desired.
Read on to know the step-wise procedure of easily creating a custom tab for your Facebook page with ‘Welcome Applet’.
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Step 1: Authorize the App
Authorizing the app is the very first step of using the application on the specific Facebook page you want to run it on. Add the application to the desired Facebook page by choosing the same from the drop-down list.
Step 2: Create a Customized Welcome Page
There are three ways of creating your own customized ‘Welcome page’ for the desired Facebook page:
a) Graphical
In graphical option, ready-made images for your custom welcome tab are available. All you need to do is upload your graphics, save and preview the changes.
b) HTML
If you are a techie freak, you can opt for the HTML for more freedom and flexibility. Just submit your HTML code and Save. Welcome Applet supports most standard Web coding HTML, CSS, JavaScript.
c) Basic
The basic method gives the option to all those who don’t have a pretty graphic for the welcome page and don’t wish to mess with coding. The Basic option offers a visual editor for you to submit, format and style your welcome message. Also, it enables you to customize the background to make it look appealing.
Step 3: Create a Fangate Page
‘Fangate’ is a page for people who have not yet ‘Liked’ your Facebook page. It helps invite people to ‘Like’ the page. Once someone ‘Likes’ your page, the Fangate gets replaced with the Welcome page.
Turning ON the Fangate will show you the new tab to let you create a Fangate page the same way you would create your Welcome page.
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Yeah, this is one way to do it if you want to install a third party application.There are several other third party application that allow you to do this with fan-gating.
The problem I see is that a lot of people that want a custom landing page on their fan page do not now how to write CSS or HTML code, so they develop some pretty bland looking pages.
I think some of the better fan pages I have seen have been powered by WordPress. This gives the admin of the page a complete website/blog to work with inside their fan page. I have already developed one WordPress theme specifically for Facebook and I am working on some others. They just provide so much more options than most of the third party application for Facebook do.
I agree with brad.. Creating a Landing Page with WordPress and the using it as a tab on your fanpage is turning into a much better option.