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Title: anyone know any FBML?
Post by: cganya on May 06, 2010, 04:10:38 pm
While following up on a job lead today, someone pulled me out of the hallway into his office and asked me if I knew anything about FBML. Apparently its a programing language similar to HTML. He isnt hiring or anything but i imagine if i can coble together whatever it is he needs there might be some money in it for me.

So, does anyone know anything about this?
Title: Re: anyone know any FBML?
Post by: Jay on May 06, 2010, 04:39:44 pm
It's Facebook's proprietary platform for Facebook applications.
It's essentially just HTML with added functions for integrating with Facebook.
See here. (http://wiki.developers.facebook.com/index.php/FBML)
Title: Re: anyone know any FBML?
Post by: cganya on May 06, 2010, 07:19:48 pm
these look like commands. I only just started having a look at this.

I'm used to visual basic and quick basic which had specific programs to implement them. Does this have something along that line? A dedicated editor perhaps?

I see that on Notepad++ there are settings for multiple programming languages. I suppose setting it to HTML would have it start pointing out errors in HTML coding.
Title: Re: anyone know any FBML?
Post by: cganya on May 07, 2010, 11:16:42 am
well went in and had a talk with the guy. he's looking for someone to do some piece work for him. they are trying to advertise local companies through facebook fan pages. I think its a great idea. The problem is that the person they have thinks that single images make good pages.

example: http://www.facebook.com/pages/North-Bay-ON/Podium-Live/111506838861679
(i was surprised to see a video in the image)

What they want is for me to build a better facebook page that looks nice and is interactive (not just an image) with sections such as food menus, locations, operating hours, an introduction, events and news, a contact us section and any other thing they want to put out there (like what charities they are involved with.

also this is their main website: http://www.podiumlive.ca/

I have just had a look at their main web page. its mostly just plain text. I can do better than that with Word.

I haven't tinkered around with HTML yet (my brother has however and I plan to work together with him) but I'm sure with a little effort I can do better than what they have.