Will your Facebook Fan Page Be Noticed?

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Hello:
I read that facebook is going to be making it even harder to create fan pages.
Supposedly you are going to have to create a website first and then import it into iframes and then, to add insult to injury, you have to get an SSL certificate, otherwise your pages that are being viewed over a secure connection won't show.

Is that true?
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  • Profile picture of the author webapex
    I've just been doing what you are referring to, extending a fan page with iFrame content, until recently you could do such things with their proprietary FBML coding, now they switched to iFrames, where you can optionally insert content you host on your own site, in a 520 pixel wide space, it's easiest with a modified wordpress blog, there are more than WSOs showing the process that include the custom theme.

    A basic fan page doesn't have to deal with this.

    There's an option as you setup an iFrame as an app, to provide an https version of the content, for people visiting with a secure connection, I don't know how the visitor would be getting there. For now you don't have to provide https, but if the fan page containing the iframe went https you apparently would have to follow with your self hosted stuff.
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  • Profile picture of the author absolutelee
    Yep, that's true. It's not that hard, or that expensive, to get an ssl certificate. GoDaddy has fairly cheap ssl certificates. (Get a coupon code and it will be even cheaper.) The iframes thing is easy to do. There are a few good wso's that address this.

    Here's a quick article about all this: Facebook Pushes Developers To OAuth 2.0 And HTTPS .

    Hope that helps!

    Lee
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    • Profile picture of the author blueonblue
      Originally Posted by absolutelee View Post

      Yep, that's true. It's not that hard, or that expensive, to get an ssl certificate. GoDaddy has fairly cheap ssl certificates. (Get a coupon code and it will be even cheaper.) The iframes thing is easy to do. There are a few good wso's that address this.

      Here's a quick article about all this: Facebook Pushes Developers To OAuth 2.0 And HTTPS .

      Hope that helps!

      Lee
      Thanks Lee. The article though says that developers or those who create apps will be responsible for a SSL certificate that runs into the thousands of dollars?

      Yet it doesn't talk about the small fan page that basically exists on the platform for everyone. What about where you can go to the apps function and download iframe (like you could with fbml) and then simply edit it and past your html code. Will that, since it is housed on facebook also be affected)?

      In addition, games cannot be viewed over https: you have to accept unsecured connection. Confusing
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      • Profile picture of the author smsmyth
        Originally Posted by harlank44 View Post

        The article though says that developers or those who create apps will be responsible for a SSL certificate that runs into the thousands of dollars?

        Yet it doesn't talk about the small fan page that basically exists on the platform for everyone. What about where you can go to the apps function and download iframe (like you could with fbml) and then simply edit it and past your html code. Will that, since it is housed on facebook also be affected)?
        fbml is dead replaced by iFrames...its is best to have a wordpress blog setup with a very inexpensive SSL ( $30 $40 ) per year, and then use plugins ( $30 ) to create the FB pages. Its a lot easier that you think ... PM me for plugin suggestions cheers.
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