Chances are that if you have a Facebook page for your business you have already noticed it looks quite different now that the ‘timeline’ design has kicked in.
Love it or hate it it’s here to stay.
There are great opportunities to really showcase and re-enforce your brand by choosing some striking images for your cover photo and customising your tabs.
Read on to learn how…
Cover photos should be 851x315px and 100kbs or less. Choose something that describes your brand and compliments your logo, but make sure you abide by the Facebook cover photo rules listed here.
Another little known customisation option is Custom Tabs for apps.
If you are handy with a photo editing program like Photoshop or even a simple online version like pixlr or PicMonkey, you can create your own buttons that tie in with the whole look of your page or brand.
The buttons should be 111x74px, no bigger than 5MB (smaller is best).
Here is how to change your tab image:
- Open your Page’s admin panel
- From the Manage ▾ menu, select Edit Page
- Select Apps from the left sidebar
- Click Edit Settings under the name of the app whose icon you want to change
- Click Change next to Custom Tab Image
- On the next screen, click Change next to the existing image
- Follow the instructions that appear for uploading a new image or deleting the existing image
If you want to reposition the order of your app buttons:
- Expand the views and apps menu by clicking on the ▾ to the right of your Page’s views and apps
- Hover over the position you’d like to put a view or app and click the ✎ pencil icon that appears
- Choose the view or app you’d like to swap into that spot from the menu
I hope this has inspired you to get creative and pretty up your business page. Remember, first impressions count.
If you want to check out the My Poppet Facebook page and it’s customisations you will find us at https://www.facebook.com/mypoppetshop
This post was originally written for and posted on Handmade Kids
Neither my husband nor I are on facebook but we have discussed the fact that once he starts his own business we should probably give it its own page as we are constantly told that it's a good networking tool. This information is not only timely but brilliant, thank you!
This is such a great post – thanks for linking up. I hadn't thought of customising my buttons but think I will add to the list!
Thanks Nikki, glad to be of help
I finally started a fb page the other day. It's getting there, but definitely not as I want it yet. Thanks heaps for the tips
Thanks, I'd been wondering how to customise my buttons. Now I know!!!
Thanks for the great information. This is going on my to do list. I have wanted to do this. Thank you – I found you via the #bmbchat stream.
Cool, I hope it helps. #bmbchat was fun today
I have just given this a try Miss Cinti and I have been unable to add my new button I made. The apps I have listed are the standard FB ones and there was no option to Change. I looked at adding an app to then midify it but they were all real apps – eg: I would like to add a button to my FB page to go to my blog, one to sign up for my newsletter and down the track one to buy or download an e-book. It seems the edit settings may not be available to everyone's pages???
You cant change the images for the fb standard buttons they are fixed. You need to find fb apps for each of these functions then you can change the images. I have my go to blog button via 'networked blogs' app, and the newsletter sign up is via a html code app. I'm sure you could find an app to sell the e-book.
You can only add these buttons to business not personal pages.
hope that helps
x cinti
Ahh ha thanks for that, i will try the networked blogs button and I will see if there is a mail chimp app. Thanks again
I'm sure mail chimp has some HTML code that you can insert in an app. I use mad mimi and it has a few HTML options