Author: Tim Ware

5 Ways to Enhance Your Facebook Timeline Page With Images

by Tim Ware / April 9, 2012

Are you wondering how to visually enhance your Timeline Facebook page?

This article provides five actionable tips you can employ now.
The Visual Opportunity
When Facebook moved the navigation into the left column and added the Photostrip, I wrote how you could optimize your Facebook page for visual branding.

And when Timeline was rolled out for personal profiles, I also wrote how you can customize your cover photo and profile picture.

With each new overhaul of Facebook pages, there

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16 Creative Ways to Make Your Facebook Timeline Cover Photo

by Tim Ware / November 1, 2011

At the 2011 f8 conference, Facebook announced Timeline -- a major overhaul of the personal Facebook profiles to which we've all grown accustomed.

UPDATE December 15, 2011: Facebook announced that Timeline is now available worldwide. Read how to get started.

When Timeline is rolled out, your personal profile will be organized in reverse chronological order, as a "timeline" of your life, like an online scrapbook. As Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg says, "Timeline is the story of your life... in a new way to express who you are."
When Will

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How to Move Your Facebook Tabs to Secure Hosting Required by Facebook

by Tim Ware / September 30, 2011

Heads up, page admins! As of October 1st, Facebook announced that any iFrame page tabs not hosted on a secure server under HTTPS will not be displayed to users browsing under HTTPS. This article will tell you what you need to do.

According to Facebook's Cat Lee, "The content will not be accessible for users with secure browsing turned on. There will be a page that states something close to: This app does not support secure browsing."

To help page admins locate a budget-friendly and secure hosting solution for their page tabs, I did some

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How to Track Tweets, Facebook Likes and More with Google Analytics

by Tim Ware / July 18, 2011

Don't you wish you could track the traffic impact of Twitter, Facebook and Google+ using Google Analytics? Well now you can. Keep reading to learn how.

Google's getting social in a big way.

Google has been quite busy lately, rolling out Google+ (Google's social network) to a limited audience, the Google +1 button (a feature similar to Facebook's Like button), a new Google Analytics interface and Google Analytics Social Interaction Tracking.
Google Analytics Social Interaction Tracking
This new Analytics feature allows you to track

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3 Social Plugins for Customizing Facebook iFrame Tabs

by Tim Ware / June 21, 2011

Now that Facebook is fully supporting custom iFrame tabs and phasing out FBML and the Static FBML support, many page admins are wondering how best to add functionality to their iFrame tabs.

For example, how do you add popular FBML tags that facilitated interaction on Facebook, such as Reveal/Fan-Gating, Multi-Friend Invite, Share button, Like button and Comments.
Facebook Social Plugins to the Rescue!
Fortunately, a subset of the XFBML tags (a.k.a. Social Plugins) intended for use on websites to integrate them into Facebook's "social

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