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Facebook Privacy Settings

Privacy Settings: As a rule I’ll put business tips on here, but I also want to make sure that if you’re using facebook at all you have your privacy settings where you want them to be. The default/recommended settings are *not* about protecting *your* privacy. To set your privacy settings click on Account, and then Privacy Settings.  To set your privacy settings to the highest level, click on Friends Only and apply to all.

Or, click on Customize Settings, and then go through and manually determine the level of privacy you want for each element of your facebook profile.

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The Queen is on facebook!

Not kidding. And its a fan page, just like you business have.

She’ll be using her fan page to keep people up to date on events and engagements, and most importantly she’ll be using it to control and correct the news about herself and the palace.

That’s what it’s all about for you too.  Control the “news” about yourself — be the one who posts it.  Use it to keep your followers up to date on what you’ve been up to.  And keep the relationships alive by responding to comments on your page.

Here’s the link to her facebook page.

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Get a Custom Facebook URL

Do you still have the facebook link that they assigned you when you first got your facebook page?  Something long and unreadable, instead of nice and tidy like www.facebook.com/grayswebdesign?

Well, your suffering is about to come to an end.  Go here: http://www.facebook.com/username. Pick the page you would like to get a customized URL for (usually your business page, although you can even do this for your personal profile). You will then enter the username that you want (this username is going to become your URL (facebook address).  So for example, I chose grayswebdesign for my Gray’s Web Design page.  Check availability, and then finish setting it up!

Currently you’ll need at least 25 fans of your Facebook business page to get a vanity URL.

NOTE: you can’t change this once you’ve done it, so be sure to get the name you are sure you want. Try it, and tell me what you got!

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Bass / Mandolin Website

We’re proud of this site featuring bass player Josh Feinberg and mandolin player Brian Oberlin: www.bassmandolin.com.

Josh and Brian are able to update all of the content on their site.  They are even able to upload musical clips (click the musical clips page) to give site visitors a sampling of their music.  Also, check out the fun photo gallery!

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About Gray’s Web Design

I’m Lisa Gray, and I’m the owner of Gray’s Web Design.  This is me:

I’ve been a web designer for nearly ten years now, and have built over 300 websites.  I build each website collaboratively with my programmer Tom and graphic artist Linda.

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E-Commerce on Facebook?

I just learned about this great new application where you can showcase your products into a tab on your facebook page!  You even include “add to cart” buttons that take the visitor right to that product page on your website.  Here’s the link to the ap: http://www.facebook.com/StorefrontSocial.

Its affordable too!  You can get have up to 15 products for $4.95, or 30 products for $9.95, and it goes up from there.

For those of you who want to get your fb fans shopping, this is a great tool!  Check it out.

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Just Launched Bed and Breakfast Website

We just launched this great little Newport, Oregon Bed and Breakfast website.  Check it out:

http://thelightkeepersinnbb.com

Bill and Cheryl Lalack run a luxury bed and breakfast in Newport overlooking Yaquina bay.  Check out the photo gallery on their site.  The photos look like an old fashioned photo album, but they zip open into a larger view.

This site is totally updatable by them, which they are excited about.  They have an admin where they can add, edit and delete photos from their photo gallery, and can edit their text throughout the site whenever they want.

Their home is as warm as this website feels!  Congratulations Bill and Cheryl!