Facebook iFrames Pages https free
Hey Warriors,
This may have already been mentioned here but I didn't do a deep search on it to be honest so if someone mentioned it - my bad.
I did do a video tutorial for this but I may get a spankin from the Mods for posting it so I'll just explain briefly if anyone wants to use https on their Facebook Pages without having to buy their own secure server.
The reason why you need to bear this in mind is because lots of people now are ticking 'view facebook using https' on their account settings and that means if they go to a Facebook welcome page which just has files sitting on an unsecured server they'll just get an error message.
That's what happened to me recently for a new page I set up and I had people coming along who couldn't see my welcome page and all its subsequent pages attached.
What you need:
1. Your HTML files and images in a folder. Name it what you wish.
2. Go to Amazon Web Services (not an affiliate) and sign up for their Amazon Simple Storage Service (Amazon S3) Amazon Simple Storage
This is free up to 5GB storage..(someone correct me if I'm wrong) You will need to set up a payment system in case you go over.
Obviously if you do Welcome pages for clients you're going to go over that 5GB but depending on your circumstances and ease of use a little better than buying your own secure server/
3. Sign into your control panel on amazon.s3 and upload your files (not the whole folder). Set your permissions to 'everyone can view and download' - leave the other boxes unchecked.
5. Head over to Facebook and visit Static HTML: iframe tabs and add the app to the page you want a welcome page on.
6. Go to your Facebook page and click 'Welcome' on your navigation and paste your html for your welcome page into the box provided. You can also tick allow FBML and scrollbars (I personally kept my scrollbars blank) There's also an option to paste the 'show only to fans' code. I didn't bother with that at this point.
That's basically it. You will be able to edit and test your page.
A few things I noted is that occasionally some of the pages turn up half blank -meaning they started to show then stopped. But upon refreshing and reloading they work fine. This only happened when I edited pages or re-uploaded files. I think it was a delay?
It's an option for those that want a quick and cheaper alternative and it doesn't require a genius to do it - although you do need some knowledge of HTML to obviously build your page.
I would probably suggest making a secondary test page just to try it out. I put this on a newer facebook page I have but my main page still uses the old FBML (at the time of writing)
In my experience of offering services to business owners and the like they may indeed see how to do this and then think it takes too much time or is complicated and pay for someone to do it for them. I know a few of you offer welcome page services and this may be another solution.
You could even offer the whole thing as a service; meaning you charge your client to set up their Amazon S3 and they actually pay for their own account. You just get the logins and do your thing.
That's what I do with my Aweber clients.
Keep in mind...
Your welcome page can contain links that open in a new tab.
You can't have videos or music on auto play on your Facebook pages.
Yes, you can put your opt-on box on your welcome page. It will open up in a new tab and then if you've got it set correctly you can send people back to wherever you wish - back to FB or your website.
Yes, you can re-upload the files if they need to be changed at anytime.
Yes, you can delete files you don't need.
Yes, the app allows you to change 'Welcome' to read whatever.
If anyone has any questions or possibly wants to tell me I didn't do something right just hollar. I'm not against learning something new.
Cheers,
V
This may have already been mentioned here but I didn't do a deep search on it to be honest so if someone mentioned it - my bad.
I did do a video tutorial for this but I may get a spankin from the Mods for posting it so I'll just explain briefly if anyone wants to use https on their Facebook Pages without having to buy their own secure server.
The reason why you need to bear this in mind is because lots of people now are ticking 'view facebook using https' on their account settings and that means if they go to a Facebook welcome page which just has files sitting on an unsecured server they'll just get an error message.
That's what happened to me recently for a new page I set up and I had people coming along who couldn't see my welcome page and all its subsequent pages attached.
What you need:
1. Your HTML files and images in a folder. Name it what you wish.
2. Go to Amazon Web Services (not an affiliate) and sign up for their Amazon Simple Storage Service (Amazon S3) Amazon Simple Storage
This is free up to 5GB storage..(someone correct me if I'm wrong) You will need to set up a payment system in case you go over.
Obviously if you do Welcome pages for clients you're going to go over that 5GB but depending on your circumstances and ease of use a little better than buying your own secure server/
3. Sign into your control panel on amazon.s3 and upload your files (not the whole folder). Set your permissions to 'everyone can view and download' - leave the other boxes unchecked.
5. Head over to Facebook and visit Static HTML: iframe tabs and add the app to the page you want a welcome page on.
6. Go to your Facebook page and click 'Welcome' on your navigation and paste your html for your welcome page into the box provided. You can also tick allow FBML and scrollbars (I personally kept my scrollbars blank) There's also an option to paste the 'show only to fans' code. I didn't bother with that at this point.
That's basically it. You will be able to edit and test your page.
A few things I noted is that occasionally some of the pages turn up half blank -meaning they started to show then stopped. But upon refreshing and reloading they work fine. This only happened when I edited pages or re-uploaded files. I think it was a delay?
It's an option for those that want a quick and cheaper alternative and it doesn't require a genius to do it - although you do need some knowledge of HTML to obviously build your page.
I would probably suggest making a secondary test page just to try it out. I put this on a newer facebook page I have but my main page still uses the old FBML (at the time of writing)
In my experience of offering services to business owners and the like they may indeed see how to do this and then think it takes too much time or is complicated and pay for someone to do it for them. I know a few of you offer welcome page services and this may be another solution.
You could even offer the whole thing as a service; meaning you charge your client to set up their Amazon S3 and they actually pay for their own account. You just get the logins and do your thing.
That's what I do with my Aweber clients.
Keep in mind...
Your welcome page can contain links that open in a new tab.
You can't have videos or music on auto play on your Facebook pages.
Yes, you can put your opt-on box on your welcome page. It will open up in a new tab and then if you've got it set correctly you can send people back to wherever you wish - back to FB or your website.
Yes, you can re-upload the files if they need to be changed at anytime.
Yes, you can delete files you don't need.
Yes, the app allows you to change 'Welcome' to read whatever.
If anyone has any questions or possibly wants to tell me I didn't do something right just hollar. I'm not against learning something new.
Cheers,
V
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