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Topic: Facebook New Iframe Development

Facebook now allows users to develop apps, upload the app to their own server than place them on faebook using facebook Iframe (facebook Iframe is not the same as html Iframe).

When I say develop an app (that is what facbook calls it), in reality you don't really need to develop an app if you don't want to. You can display your site on Facebook using Facebook Iframe without developing an app.

Here is an example of a  Facebook xml App on a Facebook page using Iframe:

http://www.facebook.com/filipinaeyes

As an added benefit, you can add the same xml app in a vldP custom page.

http://www.filipinaeyes.com/online-dati … ating.html

If you haven't looked into adding a page or custom page from your vldP site to a Facebook page using Facebook Iframe, you may want to check out these links to learn more:

http://developers.facebook.com/blog/post/462/

http://socialmouths.com/blog/2011/03/16 … h-iframes/

Last edited by db3204 (2011-09-26 13:43:24)

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Re: Facebook New Iframe Development

Awesome info db3204

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I´m not sure I understand it ?

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gugu wrote:

I´m not sure I understand it ?

Gugu let me explain it this way.

You can create a html page on your site, like you do any html page, and by creating a facebook app you can display it on your FB page.  I forget what they are, but the dimensions of the html page needs to be a certain size to fit on a FB page.

To get the html page you created to display on FB, you have to create what Facebook calls an App. I have no foggy idea why facebook wants to call it an App, because all you have to do is fill out a form with the URLs pointing to the html page on your server to have your page displayed on facebook. It really is quite simple.

Now for my example. I created a html page using dreamweaver, uploaded it to the server and now I'm displaying it on facebook. To display it, I had to create a facebook app pointing to the page on my server  --  it was a matter of filling in the form with the appropriate URLs.

Here is the link to my exampe: http://www.facebook.com/filipinaeyes?sk … 4470476712

I also uploaded to my server TWO flash/xml applications. To display it on facebook, I created a facebook app pointing to the URL of the flash/xml applications on my server.

Example: http://www.facebook.com/filipinaeyes?sk … 2849555062

Example: http://www.facebook.com/filipinaeyes?sk … 1606462256

So basically you can upload a html page, application, etc, to your server, than fill out a facebook app to display it on your facebook page.

There are a few guidelines and rules to follow, but all in all, anyone who knows CSS or HTML can create a simple page to be displayed on their own facbook page. You can also display php, flash, xml pages -- there may be other languages but these are the only ones I have experimented with.

I could even display my vldP website index page on a FB page, but my VLD site is too large to display properly for a FB page. I bet a mobile template for vldP could display on FB just fine, but I don't have a mobile template.

Last edited by db3204 (2011-11-17 17:47:18)

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Re: Facebook New Iframe Development

Okey now I understand ... Thanks Dan wink

and I already have a page on facebook.
so ofcourse I will try this later to see how it works with this new ideas!

I also did a likebox on www.vldmods.com/community/ so people can see how it works !
login (demo/demo) and it is on the left side ... I think it is a good idea to use likebox on our sites !

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Good show gugu. Yes I have Like Boxes all over the place. I get a lot of traffic from facebook. I don't know exactly what the stats are (too busy to keep up) but I bet I get close to half my traffic and income from facebook.

Man, things are busy on my sites smile

cheers
dan

Last edited by db3204 (2011-11-18 11:32:54)

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Re: Facebook New Iframe Development

db3204 wrote:
gugu wrote:

I´m not sure I understand it ?

Gugu let me explain it this way.

You can create a html page on your site, like you do any html page, and by creating a facebook app you can display it on your FB page.  I forget what they are, but the dimensions of the html page needs to be a certain size to fit on a FB page.

To get the html page you created to display on FB, you have to create what Facebook calls an App. I have no foggy idea why facebook wants to call it an App, because all you have to do is fill out a form with the URLs pointing to the html page on your server to have your page displayed on facebook. It really is quite simple.

Now for my example. I created a html page using dreamweaver, uploaded it to the server and now I'm displaying it on facebook. To display it, I had to create a facebook app pointing to the page on my server  --  it was a matter of filling in the form with the appropriate URLs.

Here is the link to my exampe: http://www.facebook.com/filipinaeyes?sk … 4470476712

I also uploaded to my server TWO flash/xml applications. To display it on facebook, I created a facebook app pointing to the URL of the flash/xml applications on my server.

Example: http://www.facebook.com/filipinaeyes?sk … 2849555062

Example: http://www.facebook.com/filipinaeyes?sk … 1606462256

So basically you can upload a html page, application, etc, to your server, than fill out a facebook app to display it on your facebook page.

There are a few guidelines and rules to follow, but all in all, anyone who knows CSS or HTML can create a simple page to be displayed on their own facbook page. You can also display php, flash, xml pages -- there may be other languages but these are the only ones I have experimented with.

I could even display my vldP website index page on a FB page, but my VLD site is too large to display properly for a FB page. I bet a mobile template for vldP could display on FB just fine, but I don't have a mobile template.

Hey Gugu, just make sure to make the page 520 pixels max in width, which is the maximum FB allows.  However you will have scroll buttons...I don't know why but I did.  I kept decreasing it in width until 480 px. and the scroll buttons disappeared.  FB menu is very convoluted, but stick with it, look up youtube and read FB help files.
Good luck,

Pete at vintage Band Posters

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Thanks ...

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Thanks for the information guys, I'm going to try to get to grips with this.