Facebook Makes Changes on Your Page Layout

by Fred Victor

Facebook isn't for kids anymore nowadays as businesses begin learning how to use Facebook to find and reach their target market with the use of Facebook Pages. Recently, announcement was made and a new Page layout was rolled out.

Don't be panic stricken as you will have the older version until March 2011 before you are forced to update.

Let's take a shot on what have been changed.

• Profile image will have a maximum size of 180 x 540 px.
  
• Photos will have prime placement. (Very similar to the new profile pages.)
• New Wall Filters - including
  -Posts by Page
  -Everyone
  -Most Recent
  -Hidden Posts
• You can set your account up to receive email notifications on Page (Major bonus in my opinion.)
• No More Tabs - Tabs are now links, giving up their real estate for photos.
• Switch from your personal profile to your Page name to make comments and post.
• Ability to Feature other Pages or Admins of your Page.
• Ability to post on your page as "You" or your "Page Name."
• Mutual connections are now shown when people visit your page - i.e. if someone visits your page they will be shown what mutual friends "like" your page. They will also be shown other Pages that your Page "likes" and they like.

Moving from FBML to iFrames - a post on the Facebook Developers page states that Facebook will be moving from FBML, to iFrames as of March 11.

"With our recent launch of Requests and the support for iframe on Pages Tabs, we are now ready to move forward with our previously announced plans to deprecate FBML and FBJS as a primary technology for building apps on Facebook. On March 11, 2011, you will no longer be able to create new FBML apps and Pages will no longer be able to add the Static FBML app. While all existing apps on Pages using FBML or the Static FBML app will continue to work, we strongly recommend that these apps transition to iframes as soon as possible."