Comments on: Facebook Fan Pages (Part 2) http://www.webdesign-gm.co.uk/news/latest-news/facebook-fan-pages-part-2.html Website Design For South Wales and The South West Fri, 09 Apr 2010 08:10:03 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 hourly 1 By: Tim Ware http://www.webdesign-gm.co.uk/news/latest-news/facebook-fan-pages-part-2.html/comment-page-1#comment-496 Tim Ware Fri, 12 Mar 2010 15:01:55 +0000 http://www.webdesign-gm.co.uk/news/?p=781#comment-496 Thanks Tom. BTW, I love your website ... big and bold, and clear, as well. Cheers... Thanks Tom. BTW, I love your website … big and bold, and clear, as well. Cheers…

]]> By: Tom http://www.webdesign-gm.co.uk/news/latest-news/facebook-fan-pages-part-2.html/comment-page-1#comment-495 Tom Fri, 12 Mar 2010 11:48:08 +0000 http://www.webdesign-gm.co.uk/news/?p=781#comment-495 Thanks for the tips Tim, keeping in mind those dimension is a good idea when your designing your tab. That cache tip is really good too - I wasn't aware of that. You've put FBML to really good use on your page too, http://www.facebook.com/HYPERARTS Thanks again Tom Thanks for the tips Tim, keeping in mind those dimension is a good idea when your designing your tab. That cache tip is really good too – I wasn’t aware of that.

You’ve put FBML to really good use on your page too, http://www.facebook.com/HYPERARTS

Thanks again
Tom

]]> By: Tim Ware http://www.webdesign-gm.co.uk/news/latest-news/facebook-fan-pages-part-2.html/comment-page-1#comment-493 Tim Ware Thu, 11 Mar 2010 22:45:21 +0000 http://www.webdesign-gm.co.uk/news/?p=781#comment-493 Nice post, Tom. Clear examples and screenshots. When folks are building their Static FBML application tabs, they should be aware of Facebook's stated intention of reducing the available screen real estate from 760px to 520px in "early 2010." Even though these changes haven't taken effect yet, I think it'd be good to design new tabs at that width rather than do one width and then have to rethink the design at a much narrower width very soon. Also, a nifty trick to make sure that Facebook refreshes its cache when you make changes to your style sheet and want to see them immediately. Just add: ?v=10.1 after the .css in the stylesheet call. Each time you make a change to the stylesheet, regenerate your FBML tab, incrementing the number by 1 (or whatever, as long as it's a different number). So the URL of the stylesheet is: "http: / / domain.com / mystylesheet.css?v=11.0" I posted a detailed <a href="http://www.hyperarts.com/blog/tutorial-facebook-pages-with-static-fbml-application/" title="Static FBML Tutorial" rel="nofollow">tutorial on Static FBML</a> on our blog which your readers will find useful. Cheers. Nice post, Tom. Clear examples and screenshots.

When folks are building their Static FBML application tabs, they should be aware of Facebook’s stated intention of reducing the available screen real estate from 760px to 520px in “early 2010.” Even though these changes haven’t taken effect yet, I think it’d be good to design new tabs at that width rather than do one width and then have to rethink the design at a much narrower width very soon.

Also, a nifty trick to make sure that Facebook refreshes its cache when you make changes to your style sheet and want to see them immediately. Just add:

?v=10.1 after the .css in the stylesheet call. Each time you make a change to the stylesheet, regenerate your FBML tab, incrementing the number by 1 (or whatever, as long as it’s a different number). So the URL of the stylesheet is: “http: / / domain.com / mystylesheet.css?v=11.0″

I posted a detailed tutorial on Static FBML on our blog which your readers will find useful.

Cheers.

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