Meet Homemaker on a Dime, Week 2

Howdy, friends! SJ here from Homemaker On A Dime. I'm so honored to be

guest posting here. I chose a topic that I spent considerable time

researching on when I saw this on a friend's blog.

At this point in time, who doesn't know Facebook? It seems like

everybody nowadays has a facebook account and it's the IN thing to

LIKE a friend's comment, or LIKE your friend's picture, or LIKE your

friend's link. As bloggers, why not LIKE my blog? Besides, using

social media like facebook enhances a blog's visibility so I set out

on a mission to find out how to include a LIKE ME in Facebook box and

here I am sharing with you how after finding it out.

In the image above, do you see the one that says, "Facebook social

plugin" under the pictures? Click on that and it'll take you here.

I chose the LIKE box instead of the LIKE button because I can control

the size of the box and make it fit in my third column, thus giving it

a cleaner look on my blog. I played around with the LIKE button but I

had a hard time making all words visible, not to mention the fact that

it just looked like a plucked apple from a tree that got dumped on my

blog.

After clicking the LIKE box, I reached this window where I have to

plug in some numbers, click some boxes, and most of all, type in my

blog's Facebook page. At this point, you should have created a

Facebook page for your blog. If you don't know how, click Account,

then Help Center while your logged in Facebook. Type in "What is a

Facebook page" and you'll be guided from there. In my case, my page is

http://www.facebook.com/pages/Homemaker-on-a-Dime/160289507341915 so

that's what I typed in the first text area that asked for Facebook

Page URL. I also knew that my third column can't take the default

value of 292 as a picture's width so I replaced it with 125.

You'll see the button that says Get Code and when you click on that,

you'll get to this window.

Copy the code under XFBML and go back to your blog's Design Tab.

Here's what you need to do next. Click Add A Gadget, HTML/Javascript,

paste what you copied into this. Then you're all set. You can

experiment til you finally get the image that's to your satisfaction.

So there you have it, my friends! If you benefitted from this

tutorial, just simply LIKE
me in Facebook. Thank you!

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SJ @ http://www.homemakeronadime.com/

SJ, thanks so much for this tutorial, I "LIKE" you on Facebook, and in Blogland!