This is a how-to article on expanding your Facebook Fan Page (aka Business Page) by using the application Static FBML which allows you to add youtube video to your tabs or box which can incorporate CSS, HTML, Facebook’s flavor of JavaScript, FBJS, and Facebook’s mark-up language FBML. FBML has greatly expanded what is possible on Facebook Pages and, if you’re sufficiently skilled with CSS/HTML and, optionally, FBML, you can make some really fine looking Pages. Basically this not an actual youtube embed that you normally do, you will need to follow the below code to make this work in Facebook. Simply Facebook will first show the image that we have within the code below, and then upon user confirm with a click then play and load the video.
fb:swf code for your Youtube video
<fb:swf swfbgcolor="000000" imgstyle="border-width:3px; border-color:white;" swfsrc='http://www.youtube.com/v/YOUR_VIDEO_ID?fs=1&hl=en_US&rel=0&autoplay=1' imgsrc='http://YOUR_IMAGE_LINK?ver1.0' width='520' height='322' />
Depend on the design of your fbml page, you can also tweak the image size as well.
Here’s some sample of it.
Watch it in action!
Extra Notes: Facebook Cache every images in there static FMBL app
Also Facebook will cache every image that you push to there site. If you would like to update your image on the static FBML tabs, you will need to put a version at the end of your image link like ?ver1.0 . This will give the page to reload the image. If you have another update, just name it ver1.1.
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