Continuing our topic from the past couple of weeks: Now you have your creative content designed for your Facebook welcome page, and you have your HTML code containing all the elements within a 520 pixel wide table. The next step is adding a Facebook “app” to your page to enter the HTML.
There are several apps that do this. Some companies even create “easy” ways to do this and charge monthly subscription fees for them. In those cases, you can usually skip the HTML portion that I discussed yesterday, because what those companies are charging for is the ease with which they allow you to do your welcome page. Time and knowledge is worth money, so there’s nothing wrong with what they’re doing. But this series of posts is designed to 
help you do it yourself for free.
The app we use for our Outskirts Press Facebook page is the “Static HTML : iframe tab.” Installing it to your page is as easy as:
1. Be sure you are logged in to Facebook.
2. Find the Static HTML’s Facebook page by clicking here:
3. Click on the blue “Add Static HTML to a page” button.
4. Voila, that app has been added to your page.
5. Return to your page on Facebook
6. Click on the “Welcome” link along the left-column menu.
You have to be logged-in as the administrator of your page. If you are, when you click on the “Welcome” link you’ll see two blank fields in which you can enter content. The top field is labeled “Enter your content here” and this is where you cut n paste your HTML code from yesterday — or your own HTML code if you prefer. The bottom field is labeled [Optional] Fans-only content and this is where you add content that is only visible for people who have “liked” your page. After you have entered your contet, preview it and save it.
Now, whenever a non-administrator clicks on that Welcome link, they’ll see your brand new Welcome page content. How, then, do you get new visitors who have not yet “liked” your page to see your Welcome screen first instead of your wall when they come to your page? That’s the topic of tomorrow’s post…
President of Outskirts Press 