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Nice summary, Pamela.
Some of our brand clients have used the "boxes" on the Wall to describe and link to their community guidelines or Rules of the Road for the Facebook Page. Since these boxes will be going away as well, we're advising:
1) That they consider moving a link from their box to the about/description area, which *isn't* going away (thank goodness!)
2) That they make better use of their Info tab (Note: Neither space supports FBML but full URLs DO turn into links)
3) That they review and update custom tabs as needed, as you noted.
Thanks for nice explanation.
Pamela-- Thanks for pulling this together-- it's very helpful. I agree it's a pain, but I hope that the "next generation of tools" from Facebook make it all worth it.
Useful to have these top tips 10 days ahead of the deadline - cheers guys!
They MUST have some planned use/ulterior motive/evil plan for dominating the globe for freeing up that real estate... Any rumors?
Great points, Bryan. Thanks for sharing your additional recommendations!
I wonder what the real reason is for these changes. Perhaps to make more room for advertising, which has been a fast growing revenue base for Facebook?
Super helpful. I welcome these changes for the most part, especially the removal of boxes. It was always such a clunky bugger of a tab.
Regarding the wall boxes: not all of them will be removed - Static FBML app boxes are still active
I like what Facebook did, plus the one page type for the photos in each album.
I think the new format of the Facebook Events pages that was rolled out a few weeks ago is a good indication of how our pages will look once these changes are implemented next week.
@AMGill, I agree that I think these changes were made to increase ad space on the right side of the pages.
Handily enough we never used our "Boxes" tab on the Rentokil Facebook page. So that's one less thing we need to worry about changing/updating.
I wonder how many people are still unaware of this impending change...
Thanks for this info.. I am sure facebook sent it to me but I actually checked it with this post and for sure it has messed up our graphic!
On my page on one of my custom tabs I have one of those "Invite Your Friends" boxes. See website link. I can't control the width of it and it's being cut off when I login as admin and see the preview of the new layout. Do you think Facebook will fix that?
@Josh: I would assume that because it's a Facebook-generated widget, Facebook will make changes to the widgets they offer to accommodate the new page width. You may need to grab a new, updated code for it, but that's no biggie.
@Pamela: I think this will make Facebook webpage more crowded and ll become less user friendly. How can you say that it will make facebook more user friendly?
I think reducing the content for an organization's Facebook fan page will make it more attractive.
My edit page, insights, suggest to friends, store description and hours are all gone as well as my fans and favorite pages. Is this all part of the new look? How do you suggest to friends etc? Is this a ploy to get us to buy advertising?
Okay, now it is all back... not sure what that was all about... maybe a glitch. Hope they don't take it all back off! Thanks for all the great info :)