TabSite is pleased to offer a requested functionality addition to the Master Admin role offered within the TabSite Manager.
TabSite users can add Master Admins to any TabSite Plan (Free-Gold) so that the Master Admin can access and manage the tabs and content on the tabs of that fan page. Now TabSite has added the ability for the TabSite user to grant Payment update access to Master Admins.
This new feature for Master Admins is an additional toggle that can be checked for Master Admins that will give them ability to see the payment status for that fan page and to be able to update the credit card that will be used for billing to one of their own credit cards on record. Master Admins never have access to the credit card number of the TabSite user that granted them Master Admin permissions so security is always maintained but this addition allows for the situations where one user creates a TabSite account but another person such as a Community Manager does most of the tab updating.
Now the Master Admin can ensure that the fan page service is current in the event a a credit card has expired.
Current TabSite plan users wanting to give this function to existing Master Admins should go to the Account Information area in the TabSite Manager and under "Administrator Manager", select the fan page to grant access to, add a Master Admin and check the "Payment Profile Access" box. Existing Master Admins would need to be removed and then re-added with the new feature to enable the functionality for them. This is per fan page.
TabSite is pleased to announce the release of templates for all TabSite users. Starting from the free plan level through Gold, TabSite makes it easy to select a pre-designed template that you can add, customize to your business/organization, and publish on your Facebook fan page.
New Templates will be added weekly!
Each template outlines the features and TabSite Plan level it is built with. During the selection process you have easy access to upgrade so that you get all features and widgets the template offers, or simply proceed and only the elements in the template available at your plan level will come across.
Example: If you have a Bronze TabSite and the template you select includes a PhotoShow (available at Silver and Gold), you would be offered the chance to upgrade to get all widgets in the template, or you can proceed and you would get all content, images, and other features minus the PhotoShow portion.
TabSite Fan Page templates range across many industries. Below is a small sampling of the templates, or click our TabSite.com/Templates link to view them all on our website.
To access the Templates, simply go to any tab in your TabSite manager and on the right where you access Widgets, simply click on the "Templates" tab (shown) and this will open the categories of templates.
Any templates you have saved using the "Save as Template" function appear under "My Templates" and then below this are the categories of templates that TabSite is offering.
Simply select a category and we will open the Template area where you can view all templates and get information on what each contains.
Upon finding the design that you want, simply click the 'select this design' button (shown below) and the template will be added. You would be prompted that your TabSite fan page plan does not include all widgets used in the template if that is the case. As noted, you can stop and go upgrade or you can proceed and get the template minus the widgets not at your plan level.
TabSite is pleased to offer pre-designed fan page templates to all users. Available at all TabSite Plan levels!
TabSite is pleased to announce a new feature to bring life and action to your fan page tabs!
AUTO-PLAY SLIDESHOWS! for PhotoShow and ProductShow
We've added features to our PhotoShow & ProductShow so that you can setup automatically rotating image slideshows! Setup the show, set the rotation duration to have images remain, and then grab user attention with automatically rotating images on your fan page TabSite tabs!
Now within both the PhotoShow and ProductShow widgets you can set the images to automatically advance on the timeframe you set. This feature is available to all TabSite users with Silver or Gold Plan TabSite accounts. Choose your image rotation interval from 1 second (fast!) to 7 seconds (slow) to capture the attention of your viewers!
See it in action on Facebook by clicking the image below...
Details on each TabSite Widget:
PhotoShow
ProductShow
- Add up to 30 images
- Add up to 30 images
- Link each image to a unique url
- Link each image to a unique url
- Set to Auto-Play or Manual advance
- Set to Auto-Play or Manual advance
- Great for showcasing staff, services!
- Great for selling products!
- Add a "Buy Now" button to each image
PhotoShow Widget Manager View:
So go ahead! Create awesome slideshows to showcase your business and team with PhotoShow, and create featured product slideshows with ProductShow!
With ProductShow you can easily link out each prodcut to a e-commerce store or PayPal purchase pages, enabling you to bring e-commerce to your fan page. As noted, PhotoShow and ProductShow are available to Silver and Gold Plan Tabsite users.
TabSite is pleased to offer the ability to create and conduct Sweepstakes on fan page custom tabs!
TabSite's Sweepstakes allows Fan Page Admins to setup and conduct Sweepstakes where visitors submit entries during a sweepstakes live time period. All entries are e-mailed to the e-mail address set by the Admin and from these entries Admins can randomly select a winner!
KEY FEATURES:
Set the "Go-Live" Date and End Date of the Sweepstakes
Pre-Sweepstakes custom message option
Sweepstakes Form Builder to create the exact form fields you need
No TabSite branding in sweepstakes on your fan page
Unlimited use per fan page for Gold Plan TabSite users
Simply drag the widget to your tab work area in the TabSite Manager. The below setup box appears.
The TabSite Sweepstakes allows the Page Admin to setup and do the following:
Pre-Sweepstakes - Where you setup what appears before Sweepstakes goes live
Live Sweepstakes - Setup your main sweepstakes message and form
Post-Sweepstakes - Setup the closing time and message after entry time has closed
Container Properties tab - This is where you set background color for your sweepstakes widget, as well as text and link colors. Note if you have a overall tab background set, the widget will inherit that by default. You can override by using this feature in the widget.
There is a "Preview" function enabling the TabSite Manager to click through Pre, Live, and Post tabs to see each view of the sweepstakes.
Sweepstakes is available at the Gold Plan level of TabSite. This beta release has documentation outlined here: TabSite Sweepstakes Documentation.
Look for more features coming in the months ahead for Sweepstakes as well as the launch of Contests with user voting. In the meantime, here's a sample from our demo...
Your customized and private pure white label platform
Grow your Social Media Business by integrating TabSite's customized fan page tab builder platform!
With the TabSite white label service, you can have the complete TabSite platform and make it your own for your use in managing fan pages for clients.
Many say they offer "white label" but most are really not a pure white label where all access to the platform provider is hidden. So if you've been looking for a pure White Label to use as your own, then look no further!
Tabsite is a pure white label model including an unbranded manager area with significant options for you to implement your brand colors in the manager area, generic non-TabSite urls, ability to map a domain for your login page, fan page tabs with no branding, ability to set the app id message per tab, and delivery of content securely (SSL) to the fan pages with no reference to TabSite. Perfect for web design firms, social media agencies, and Marketing firms, the TabSite platform is a powerful platform empowering you to extend and grow your business.
The self-service fan page platform puts you in control. There is no e-commerce module, simply the ability to add fan pages and add Admins to those fan pages as needed so you are in total control of access and there is no limit to the number of fan pages you can manage.
WANT TO KNOW MORE?
Join us for a White Label Overview Webinar and Q/A Time!
The monthly plan is $249 with a license to use 50 tabs and the ability to add additional license pools of 25 tabs to scale with your company growth. Full details on the White Label fan page platform are available on our website.
Did you know? One of the unique features of TabSite is Mobile Friendly Tabs!
As you have likely experienced, the Facebook mobile site and mobile apps for Android and iPhone do not offer a simple ability to access custom tabs on a fan page. Facebook limits you in the mobile version to the Wall, Info, Photos, and Activity. For most apps this means your custom tabs are hidden from viewers accessing the tab on their mobile device.
However, with TabSite this doesn't have to be the case!
When you use the TabSite "Save & Post to Wall" feature, this will post an update to your fan page wall and it will link back to the TabSite custom tab you are posting from.
It is programmed so that if the link in the wall post is clicked, TabSite checks to see if it is a mobile browser, and, if so, we deliver a mobile friendly version of the content to the user. (see image)
This powerful feature sets TabSite apart from many fan page platforms and gives TabSite users ability to post updates to their wall about their fan page tabs that can be viewed by mobile users. With mobile use of Facebook continuing to grow and averaging over 40% of normal daily use, this unique TabSite feature of "Post to Wall" enables you to easily reach more fans and give them access to your custom tab creations!
So, the answer is, "YES!" TabSite gives you a way to reach Facebook mobile users!
Here's the setup process to post to your fan page from the TabSite Manager.
1. From the tab you want to link to, click 'Save & Post" from the Dropdown.
2. Use the pop-up box to customize your Facebook Fan Page Wall post:
You'll get a confirmation message that the post was published to your wall. Below is the mobile view from an iPhone of the Facebook wall post and then the custom tab view aftering clicking the link. The image and "Widget Videos" are linked to the custom TabSite tab.
Here's the custom TabSite tab fully viewable in the iPhone Facebook app.
So go ahead, give mobile users access to your custom tabs by using the "Save & Post" feature!
Since March 2011, page admins have not been able to create any new FBML apps, but FBML apps which were already in existence remained functional.
Facebook announced at it's most recent f8 Developer Conference in September, 2011, that:
1. FBML will no longer be supported by Facebook beginning January 1, 2012. (This means no support and no bug fixes)
2. The final official end date when all FBML tabs will cease to work and will be removed from Facebook is set for June 1, 2012.
The time has come for those last holdouts to fully transition to iFrames and depart from the FBML coding completely, and TabSite is an ideal alternative!
History and Information for Fan Page Admins
1. What is FBML and why do I care?
The answer is that, you don't need to care, unless you already were using FBML on your Facebook Pages. If you fall in the group that doesn't need to know because you don't have any FBML tabs on your fan page, then feel free to skip down to number 2!
FBML FBML is Facebook’s original framework for serving custom content on fan page tabs. This content is served by Facebook, which, in short, means the user’s browser never hits the app developer’s server directly. Instead, Facebook requests the content from the app developer’s server, parses and filters it, and sends it to the browser for display. The result is content served by Facebook on custom tabs.
Static FBML App The Static FBML app was an application provided by Facebook that enabled the creation of FBML based Facebook page tabs. To use the application, page admins simply added the app to their page, and then customize the content by coding using FBML code techniques.
Along with FBML, the Static FBML app will no longer be supported (no help) starting January 1, 2012, and will NO LONGER WORK on pages beginning June 1, 2012.
2. What is Facebook's preferred method for adding custom tabs to Fan Pages?
iFrame Apps iFrame Apps are Facebook’s accepted framework for serving content on fan page tabs. Content is served directly by the developer’s server, rather than being proxied by Facebook’s servers. Because the page is hosted externally of Facebook, it can render HTML, CSS and even Javascript just like any external web page does, which was not the same with FBML. iFrame Apps were launched in March of 2011 and are a big improvement.
All TabSite fan page tabs use iFrame Apps.
3. I'm not a coder and yet I want a nice, custom fan page. What should I do?
TabSite is a great solution for small and medium sized businesses wanting to easily customize their fan page without learning to do any coding. With a easy to use drag-n-build system, TabSite is easy to navigate and has a full suite of widgets and tools including ability to:
Add Videos,
Add/Edit Content using a WYSIWYG editor,
Create Photo SlideShows
Add Facebook Social Plugins
Embed E-mail Sign-up forms
Add your Blog and Twitter feeds
Create a fan-gating mechanism with our Like-Gate tool
and more!
4. Don't wait! January 1 FBML is no longer Supported. June 1, 2012, FBML ceases to work. Now is the time to changeover to a solution like TabSite.
Form Builder Widget to make it easy to build custom forms for your fan page tabs
Release of a pure White Label TabSite platform for agencies
And more!
As we look back at the end of this year we are grateful and blessed that TabSite has become a leading fan page platform for small and medium sized businesses. Thanks so much for your support!
As we look ahead to 2012 we are pumped and excited about the features we have in the works for fan pages and beyond!
SNEAK PEEK AT 2012:
Watch for a Sweepstakes Widget in January!
Coupon and Contest Widgets coming
Yes, a Photo Contest tool from TabSite!
Ready made Templates to aid in design and building of tabs
And, watch for a special announcement about Scheduling Facebook and Twitter Posts early in 2012!
With the addition of sweepstakes, contests, and scheduled posting, TabSite can become your one-stop platform for Facebook marketing.....and watch for us expanding further into other social platforms as well!
TabSite is thrilled to have surpassed 60,000 users who use our fan page platform to easily create and customize tabs reaching over 97 million fans on Facebook!
To celebrate this milestone we used our a beta version of our "Sweepstakes Widget" to allow fans and friends to enter to win a Free-For-Life TabSite Gold Plan ($150/year value).
We conducted the sweepstakes entirely on our Facebook fan page custom tab and we have a winner!
Drum roll please......
The Winner of our Free-For-Life TabSite Gold Plan is:
Just ahead of the pending Facebook IPO, here's a great infographic from AllFacebook showing the history of Facebook in "Timeline style" perspective....
TabSite is a great solution for small and medium sized businesses wanting to easily customize their fan page without learning to do any coding. With a easy to use drag-n-build system, TabSite is easy to navigate and has a full suite of widgets and tools including ability to:
TabSite is thrilled to have surpassed 60,000 users who use our fan page platform to easily create and customize tabs reaching over 97 million fans on Facebook!