NEW Facebook iframes for Small Biz Owners...Any Successes? Or Questions?

Hey - There was just a WF special about the new facebook pages. Someone is offering a course that answers these questions.

I think it is called Facebook offline...something. I ll look for the product.

Nice to see another houstonian in here. Go Texans!!

well, i don't think that Facebook alone can make a business successful. This social media site is just one of the ways/methods which you can use if you want to promote your website or online brand.

I picked up the Offline Facebook Arsenal by Martin Crumlish last Friday and managed to get 2 fan pages up over the weekend with no previous experience of building them using the previous fbml style or the new iframes.

You can see them here:
InBizLocal | Facebook
Buildline Builders in Bedford | Facebook

These were built using the templates in the 'arsenal' and simply following Martin's instructions. I would love to hear what people think.

HI Dave

Your face book pages take forever to open.

The pages open instantly on my website so I assume that something is happening on the Facebook site to slow things down so much. It was all fine yesterday. I'll check it again later but thanks for letting me know.

Hey guys.

To remove the iframe scrollbars select "auto resize" for the iframe resize option and then....

If you add:

<div id="fb-root"></div>
<script src="http://connect.facebook.net/en_US/all.js"></script>
<script>
FB.init({
appId : 'YOUR-APP-ID-HERE',
status : true, // check login status
cookie : true, // enable cookies to allow the server to access the session
xfbml : true // parse XFBML
});
</script>just before the </body> tag of your fan page and then add:

<script type="text/javascript">
window.fbAsyncInit = function() {
FB.Canvas.setSize();
}
// Do things that will sometimes call sizeChangeCallback()
function sizeChangeCallback() {
FB.Canvas.setSize();
}
</script>


Hope that helps cos those things are damn annoying!

Martin

I'm just getting started but as soon as I have some examples I'll post them.

I feel like this is an excellent way to get clients for at least $500 a pop.

Don't want to let the cat out of the bag...just yet. Well, maybe a little; like her big head (like mine sometimes). Anyway, how's this for a kicker? A complete WordPress theme...to use with the Facebook iFrame functionality...complete with the "reveal" function...and can double as a mobile theme? That damn cat! Scratched me getting out of the bag!

Here is good tutorial
HyperArts on SEO, Social Media, Facebook, WordPress & Programming | HyperArts

Hi Phil,

I followed your sig link to facebook maxed which looks really good. The only problem is when I clicked on Add to Cart, the Clickbank page says "This account has not been activated. Until it is activated, only purchases using test credit card information may be placed." I am interested to buy.

There will be over 2000 affiliate JVs so, yes, you'll hear about it! Thank you for the interest!

I ll look for the product.

Watch the Video...It will do the talking! We are officially blasting off...I hope you get in!

I started a few weeks ago building fan pages and since we were so close to the Mar. 11th date I did all of them using iframes.

Easy!

You must check out this free iframe app. It makes it really easy and even has the hidden reveal feature. It's also not branded...

Static HTML: iframe tabs | Facebook

By the way George, this might be a stupid question...But is it just a matter of placing an 's' after "http" to force a secure connection? That's all you have to do right? (I feel I should know this.)

Anyhow, I think it's just a matter of going inside the dev app when creating an Iframe application and adding that under the secure site domain section. I'll have to try it.

That should work or you could just go to Settings>>Account Security>>Check: Browse Facebook on a secure connection (https) whenever possible

If you connect from a public access point, it's probably a good idea.

For more info:

https://www.facebook.com/blog.php?post=486790652130

Nice thread. Should definitely become helpful as more and more people switch over. I did not have a page when it was fbml, but I actually look forward to using the iframes as it gives you more options.

I just recently put my first page up following the standard directions. I bought two different guides as well as used free information. I could have gotten along fine with the free information, but for people not quite familiar with coding and iframes, buying a good guide is probably a good idea.

I am dealing with two issues.

The first issue was dealing with the scrollbar issue. I had the correct settings within the app for resizing the content. I also used the correct 520 width settings in my code. At first I was using an html table of 520 width and was still getting both vertical and horizontal scrollbars. My height was under 800 pixels.

I was seeing both scollbars, some people were seeing only the bottom. I think I missed how to properly incorporate the scrollbar fix code with my id and secret, so i will have to go back and try that out.

I ended up tweaking what I had to get rid of the scrollbars by just using a 500 width image and that did the trick. I was so frustrated for a while I that I was happy with that lol.

The current issue I am dealing with has been mentioned above. I originally got the content cannot be displayed because it is unsecure as well as a few other people who tried viewing it. I assumed it was because I had the secure setting enabled within facebook. After taking it off I was able to see my page correctly.

However, that doesn't help when many people use the secure browsing feature in FB. I tried taking the url and adding the https:// address in the secure canvas url within the app, but that doesn't seem to work.

What I'm wondering and hoping someone can tell me is, do we need to set some kind of ssl thing on our servers to address this issue or something else? Or is this just another growing pains issue with the new system we have to deal with for a while?

I quickly made a facebook page using wordpress and the headway theme , and then followed the free facebook WSO for setting the APP up.

But am finding the customised pages take an eternity to open up.

Any ideas on how to improve the load time.

I have not yet been able to figure out how to make the pages visible over an https connection but I'm sure there will be a fix soon as we are still in the early days of iframe pages.

It is cool what you can achieve with this new set up anyway.

Here is an example of a complete squeeze page with reveal tab to help it go viral

Free Photoshop Video Lessons | Facebook

Here is a demo of a static template that has been adapted for WordPress and now becomes a mini site

InBizLocal Web Marketing - Website | Facebook

The possibilities are almost endless.