One of the things you will have to learn when designing your own Facebook Page FBML App or the iFrame App is how to write HTML code. FBML code is now becoming deprecated; it is being replaced. Learning how to use HTML code will help you with web page design as well. Not every small business can afford to hire a web site designer for their Facebook Page. That means doing it themselves.
I want to introduce to you several HTML tags that will help you create some great Facebook Page art. A tag is a HTML element that starts and ends a section, such as a paragraph. There is a start tag and then a closing tag at the end. Today we will focus on the “P” tag – the “Paragraph” tag.
Here is an example of a “P” tag usage:
<p>Your text goes here.</p>
There are four paragraphs in the example above. Notice that arrows wrap the lowercase letter “p”. The start <p> tag has an arrow pointing to the left direction, a lowercase p and then an arrow pointing to the right. The starting <p> tag always goes before any of the paragraph text. The text comes after the starting <p> tag.
When you have finished writing the first paragraph, you will use a closing </p> tag to let web browsers, like Internet Explorer or Monzilla Firefox, that the paragraph has ended. Notice that the forward slash “/” goes before the letter “p” in the closing tag : </p>.
Each paragraph starts with an opening <p> tag and ends with a closing </p> tag. This is how you write paragraphs for a web page or for a Facebook Page FBML or iFrame App.
As a habit, I always write my starting tag and my closing tag together: <p></p>. I then click in between the “><” arrows and start typing. This prevents me from forgetting to add a closing tag at the end.
For easier reading, paragraphs should be no more than two to three sentences in length. This makes the paragraphs easily scan able for reading.
We will cover more HTML tags next time.
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