Create a Custom Facebook Page
By Dave Maloney
So you've set up a business page for your company on Facebook, but it just looks like every other page there. Maybe you'd like to customize your Facebook page to be a little less generic looking.
Customizing Your Tabs
You're limited to 6 total tabs, and you can't change or remove the first two, "Wall" and "Info". As for the remaining 4, you can choose from a list of optional tabs like Discussions, Photo Albums, or tabs that feature your Twitter or Flickr pages, or you can make a tab with your own custom facebook page. To find these options, click on "Edit Page" right below your profile image, and this brings you into your Page Manager.
To add a "custom" tab, you'll need to get this FBML app and follow the instructions to install it in your account. Now go into your Page Manager and scroll down to find the FBML tab, then click "edit". You'll be brought to a form where you can give your new tab a custom name and add some HTML code. 
Don't get scared away yet; there are thousands of code bits and tips you can find in an online search, but here we're all for keeping it simple.
Pagetender's Facebook page features a "mini-version" of our company website which links back to Pagetender.com.
If you want to give it a try, here's what we did:
- Name the tab whatever you'd like in "Box Title."
- Take a screenshot of your company's Home page (or whatever you want) and upload the image to an online photo management site (we used Flickr.com)
- In Flickr, there's a button in the topright corner, "Share This", that has an option to "Grab the HTML" for your image.
Just copy that block of code and paste it into the body field of your Facebook FBML page.
- At the beginning of the code it reads "a href=http.www..."; delete everything between the quotation marks, and replace it with a copy/paste of your own website address out of your browser bar. This will make your custom Facebook page one big image shot of your company website, that fans in Facebook can click on and be brought right your site!
- One last thing, if you want you can make this "Custom" tab your "Home" page in Facebook. Go back to your "Wall" page and under "Edit Page"/ "Wall Settings" click on "Default Landing Tab for Everyone Else"; then choose the tab which you want new visitors to land on first. (People who are already fans of your page always see your "Wall" first.)
While Facebook doesn't make it easy, there are a few spots where there's room to add a little of your own touch to make your company stand out from the other 500 million blue-on-white pages.