Facebook Business Page - Tab Customisation HTML HELP!

yungwan

Hi all.

Firstly I really hope someone can help me with my work's business page, for which I am responsible.

I have previously attended a "Marketing your Business through Social Netwrking" course and the trainer showed us how to insert new tabs, and how to customise it with a jpg file by using the FBML Application. He didnt give us handouts though, and I cannot remember it now.

Now obviously I am no expert in this, so apologies if I do not use the right terminology!

Okay so....

I added the FBML application to the page and went into the FBML form to edit the tab name etc. Then I used the following code

<img src="[URL="http url code[/URL]" width=500 height=500>.

to insert my photo. (Obviously i have left out the actual link here)

But while the new tab is on my fb page, and the outline is there for where the jpg SHOULD be, it wont display. (It has a white box with a red cross in it, and even if I right click "show picture" it doesnt display)

What am I doing wrong?

The jpeg file I used is not on a website or anything, so I had originally tried to just put in an address from my computer, but when this would not work I uploaded it to our website server/image library (but didnt publish it to the site) and used that address/url, but it made no difference.

I would appreciate any help on this. I would liek to get it sorted.

If you want to see the fb page I will PM you the URL.

Thanks in advance.

(Oh and P.S if someone could tell me the code for linking a website to it too Id be grateful!)

liah

Well if the example you provided is anything like what you're trying to insert, I would assume it's not working because you've got forum BBCode in an HTML tag.

It should be:

<img src="http://www.yoursite.com/yourimage.jpg&quot; width="500px" height="500px">

the [URL] tags are for forums like Boards only and don't belong in clean HTML.

The image MUST be uploaded somewhere on the internet e.g. imageshack.us, right-click > copy image URL or copy image location, then paste between " and " in the aforementioned code (you must use the full URL starting with http:// and ending in .jpg).

EDIT: To link is <a href="http://www.yoursite.com/index.html">Link Title</a>.[/url]

yungwan

liah wrote: »

Well if the example you provided is anything like what you're trying to insert, I would assume it's not working because you've got forum BBCode in an HTML tag.

It should be:

<img src="http://www.yoursite.com/yourimage.jpg&quot; width="500px" height="500px">

the [URL] tags are for forums like Boards only and don't belong in clean HTML.

The image MUST be uploaded somewhere on the internet e.g. imageshack.us, right-click > copy image URL or copy image location, then paste between " and " in the aforementioned code (you must use the full URL starting with http:// and ending in .jpg).[/url]

Hi Liah, thanks for the reply.

Sorry when I edited my actual imgae URL I put in "URL" accidently. I dont have it in in my image location.

I will try uploading it to imageshack and see....

liah

Doesn't need to be imageshack, just has to be uploaded anywhere on the net. Like http://min.us/ (you can drag and drop with instant upload, easiest thing ever). ALWAYS copy the "direct" or "HTML" option and no other options, 'cuz it adds pointless stuff to the URL that'll make the image not work, or the best option to know what you're getting:

Right-click on the image, copy image URL (could say location), and paste into the " " section of the tag.

To link an image it's <a href="http://www.yoursite.com"><img src="http://www.yoursite.com/image.jpg"></a&gt;

barebones, anyway.

yungwan

Thanks Liah

still not working though.. even after uploading to facebook and using this as the location and literally cutting and pasting your suggestion above and just putting the location between the " " *sigh*

Maybe its my browser.

Thanks for your help anyway.

liah

If you want, can you take screenshots of what you need to do/what you are doing?

Or PM me if you want and I can help you that way, I'm sure I can figure it out.

BrianD

ACn you check if you can access the image using the URL outside of Facebook.

I have found that sometimes Facebook won't link correctly to image hosting sites. I had a problem with this when using Photobucket.