TabSite is unique from other do-it-yourself Facebook tab creation services we reviewed. It lets you set up a vertical sub-tab system within your Facebook fan page that you can customize with consistent header and footer designs for each tab.
TabSite’s Silver package provides business-savvy Facebook templates with the ability to insert a YouTube video, a Twitter feed or an RSS feed of your blog like many of its competitors. It also offers the ability to create a photo collage in what they call PhotoShow. However, TabSite’s design interface is not initially intuitive, and we recommend that you review its tutorials and articles before getting too far along in your creation process.
TabSite offers a WYSIWYG (what you see is what you get) design interface that does not require programming knowledge. It lets you add your own images and hyperlinks to your business’s website. In addition, it allows you to edit or delete tabs you’ve created using its interface, even after they go live on your Facebook page.
TabSite does not provide Facebook layouts with variable column widths and image placements, and it does not provide templates with clipart. However, TabSite is one of the few services we reviewed that lets you upload your own design for the tab icon.
TabSite also lets you add reveal-page content to your tabs, or content that is displayed only for non-fans. You can create reveal-page content to encourage non-fans to click the Like button at the top of your page, either by offering them a coupon for a product or service, or by simply offering additional information about your cause or business.
TabSite includes some of the business-savvy widgets that many of its competitors offer. It does not offer tools such as the ability to add a map of your store location or the ability to add hotspots to an image, but we were able to add hyperlinks using a textbox we placed at the bottom of our tab.
Using TabSite requires that you generate your own content, which means that for best results, you need to know your way around basic Photoshop functions.
TabSite’s design interface is not initially intuitive. Its key tools are located in a dropdown menu that appears when you click on Tab Options next to a pencil icon within the interface. That menu includes basic functions such as editing a tab, deleting a tab or adding reveal-page content. We experienced a malfunction when we were creating a reveal tab, so we had to begin a new template in order to publish our tab into the Facebook application successfully.
TabSite is a company based out of Goshen, Indiana. TabSite’s website includes a contact form that requires you to sign in to your Facebook account before you can submit a message. A TabSite customer service representative contacted us within 24 hours after we submitted a query. Its website provides answers to frequently asked questions, tutorials and articles, but it does not provide a community forum for its users.
TabSite is a limited do-it-yourself Facebook tab creation service that does offer some of the business-savvy features of its competitors. TabSite plans to add a new Drag N Build system that will provide a more user-friendly interface, but its present design interface is not initially intuitive. We recommend that you review its tutorials before designing your first tab.
