Help with Facebook Page

[1creed]

I want to put my e-books on facebook and i have a page already, but I would like to show the ebooks in a two column format and I don't know how to set that up. Anybody know how to do this the easiest way.

Thank you

Connie Reed

[E-junkie_Guru]

Facebook is pretty limited in the layout and content customization they will allow on their site lately. Even the workarounds we had previously recommended to add our cart buttons to a Facebook Page apparently no longer work, and we haven't yet found a new workaround that works -- if anyone's figured out a way, we're open to suggestions!



At present, the best we can recommend is just using your Facebook Page as-is, and find some way in there to include a link to a page on your Web site where your cart buttons would appear, or you can set up an E-junkie Shop page and link to that. E.g., you can put link URLs in your Facebook Page's About or Info sections, or in the caption for a photo.

[1creed]

well that's a bummer. I got one listed but it was through involver website but it won't let me add another. I wonder how they do it with the ebay sites that show my items and have buy it now buttons.

Thanks for the information.

Connie

[E-junkie_Guru]

There are eBay-specific Facebook Apps that can automatically insert the seller's current eBay items:

https://www.facebook.com/search.php?q=ebay&type=apps



I just found another new Facebook App called "Static HTML: iframe tabs" and tested that it should work with our cart button codes; I've updated the Facebook section accordingly on our help page for social networks:

http://www.e-junkie.com/ej/help.social-networks.htm



Here's the basic HTML you'd need for a simple two-column layout:



<div style="float:left;width:49%;">

First product's HTML and button code goes here

</div>

<div style="float:right;width:49%;">

Second product's HTML and button code goes here

</div>

<div style="clear:both;">

View Cart button code can go here, if you want it in a footer below both columns; otherwise, you can just delete this DIV section entirely.

</div>

[1creed]

is this the website involver that controls the Static HTML, if it is they only let you upload 2 and then there's a fee for more. Is there another site that I'm not aware of that I can impliment my ebooks?

I have one product on there now, and that's where I got stuck.

Here's my site url if you wouldnt' mind taking a look at it for me and guiding me through this.

http://www.facebook.com/pages/Informational-Books/198609493536811?sk=photos#!/pages/Informational-Books/198609493536811?sk=app139229522811253



Thank you for being so helpful, I really appriciate your service

Connie

[E-junkie_Guru]

The Facebook App we now recommend and link on our social networks help page is called "Static HTML: iframe tab":

https://www.facebook.com/apps/application.php?id=190322544333196



If you need to add more custom tabs to your Facebook Page, they have additional Apps for that, called "Static HTML... [second tab]", "Static HTML... [third tab]", etc.:

https://www.facebook.com/search.php?q=static%20html%20tab&type=apps

[1creed]

thank you for the help, when i go to save and view tab, it tells me that

Note: Facebook policy forbids autoplaying media on tabs. Make sure your tab doesn't autoplay anything, or your page may get shut down!

So then the page created just comes up with the heading and nothing else.

Connie

[E-junkie_Monster]

Our buttons don't autoplay anything, was there anything else you were adding to that tab such as a video or anything like that? It may just be that some security measure Facebook has added lately to keep people from running something malicious in a tab is also interfering with how our cart works.



You might want to try using non-javascript buttons instead of our normal ones, just check the box for non-javascript code on the screen where you see your button code in our system.

[1creed]

ok, I've wasted so much time trying to get my e-books on facebook, and i know you have really tried to help me, but I cannot seem to set it up correctly.

Is there someone who can do the whole set up and I would gladly pay them. I'm too frustrated and need to work on other projects for my business

I hope they'res a quick inexpensive guru out there that can help



Connie



conreed@msn.com

[E-junkie_Guru]

We can recommend the competent, E-junkie-experienced, independent developers listed in our directory here:

http://www.e-junkie.com/ej/developer-directory.htm