Monday, April 26, 2010

Website iframe on Facebook Fan Page Tab

I had been pondering over this issue for quite a while now, as to how can I embed my website into a facebook fan page tab. (Kinda specific isn't it).
I looked around and found a few static iframe apps on Facebook itself - but guess what?? - They are limited trials (paid versions for an iframe app???) - something so functionally simple in HTML been made so complicated on today's most visited social network was truly mind boggling to me.

So i did a little research further and found that although Facebook does not accept the iframe tag in FBML for a page tab, but instead has to be used in an app, then the app has to be added to the Facebook page (and then the tab) - a bit of php, app creation (from a techie friend, of course) and voila - it was finally possible to embed a webpage on a Facebook fan page tab.

I owe this spark to the guy who designed this page called - "Pages Design" on Facebook - he's managed to give a simply amazing look and feel to his fan page