SplashLab Social’s do-it-yourself Facebook fan page provides a number of Facebook layouts with variable column widths and image placements. However, its Business package does not provide any widgets that let you embed videos, blog rolls or a Twitter feed. It does let you add hyperlinks to your tabs, however, and we like that its publishing process into the Facebook application is a smooth process.
SplashLab Social offers a WYSIWYG (what you see is what you get) design interface. Its interface lets you easily edit and delete tabs that have already gone live on your Facebook page. It also gives you a long list of tab-name options that will fit most of your needs. If you don’t like the options it provides, you can still alter a tab name using the administration tools within your Facebook page.
SplashLab Social does provide some clipart options for the footer of your tab. For the most part, however, you must come up with your own images, and those images must meet different specified dimensions for each image within a template. As a result, you need to know Photoshop in order to alter your images to the dimensions required.
SplashLab Social does not have a photo-viewer widget that you can add to your tab, but it does let you add a collage of several images. The template we chose for our evaluation included spots for eight different images. In uploading those images, we wanted them to have the same proportions, so we had to make sure they had the same pixel dimensions when we cropped them in Photoshop.
SplashLab Social offers a variety of Facebook templates with various column widths and image placements. However, it does not provide many of the widgets that its competitors offer, including the ability to add feeds from YouTube or Twitter, an RSS feed from your blog, a contact form, map or background music.
We found SplashLab Social’s service to be straightforward to use. It allows you to publish to your Facebook page without hassle, and it lets you edit or delete your published tabs within its interface. It does not require programming knowledge, but knowledge of Photoshop or another graphics application that lets you use pixels is essential.
We found SplashLab Social’s service to be straightforward to use. It allows you to publish to your Facebook page without hassle, and it lets you edit or delete your published tabs within its interface. It does not require programming knowledge, but knowledge of Photoshop or another graphics application that lets you use pixels is essential.
SplashLab Social is a great do-it-yourself Facebook fan page creation service if you are creating a tab for an individual cause or a basic tab for your business. It does not provide any of the eCommerce or online marketing tools that many of its competitors offer. In addition, you must know Photoshop to crop your images to the required variable dimensions. However, we like that this service's publishing process is simple and that lets you edit and delete published tabs within the service’s web interface.
