Designer Nicholas Felton, known for his own delightfully thorough infographics and personal reports tracking everything from friends and relationships to workouts and coffee consumption, joined Facebook and helped to spearhead this new design that brings a bit of that attention to detail to your daily life. Remember the uproar that happened when Facebook flipped on News Feed in for the first time, revealing all of your friends' updates in one, easily-consumable feed?
This is even bigger. You're going to have to deal with it sooner or later — Timeline will be a mandatory change in the coming months — so get a jump start on the inevitable by heading to facebook. The point here is to help you manage the shock of a new design that makes your history more visible and easily accessible than ever before. Once you begin the process, you've only got seven days before your newly redesigned personal identity is published live, so enable when you've got some free time to tinker with your profile.
It won't be visible by others until you hit publish or hit your seven day limit, and once it's published, there's no way to revert to the old profile. If you're like most of us, you — and your friends — have logged hundreds or thousands of status updates, photos, videos, events, and check-ins over the years, and Timeline throws it all onto a single page.
It's both exciting and terrifying. Facebook's built a browsable, visual history of your life without much effort on your part — aside from providing the content — and it's got much more of an immediate impact than any previous version of Facebook. Our friends, jobs, break-ups, late nights, hard times, great meals, and everything else we've documented will soon be laid out in reverse chronological order on what will be the world's biggest digital scrapbook — million users strong — that we've been posting to and tweaking all along.
It might feed late-night narcissistic binges where you spend hours highlighting your favorite photos and hiding questionable status updates from in order to present the best "you," or, as Zuckberg said at f8 , "It's a new way to express who you are. Where in the past photos buried in galleries may have been shared with your friends, your data has never been this accessible. Let's dive in. After clicking 'Get it Now,' you'll be asked to add a new Cover image.
We've found uncluttered, full-screen shots work best, and you can choose from your pictures on the site or upload a photo from your hard drive. The Timeline redesign shuffles around your friends, photos, and other activity, placing it all directly beneath your Cover Photo. Clicking through each section reveals your photos, friends, likes, and other activity chronologically.
At the top left of your Timeline, you can add more events, status updates, and photos. A click on the blue line running down the middle of the page invites you to share more photos, "Life events," status updates, and locations, especially among the the pre-Facebook days. Yes, Life Events, which give you the option of adding everything from home improvements and new roommates to first kisses and new hobbies.
Navigating Timeline is pretty simple, if a bit click heavy: scroll down to move back in time, and persistent calendar at the top right slides down the page with you so you can hone in specific years and months. Additionally, once you scroll down far enough where your Cover image can't be seen, a new navigation bar appears with dropdowns to jump to different years and more options for quickly posting status updates. Take note of the gear in the set of menu buttons on the right side of the window; the 'View as' option will be your most essential tool for getting your profile into shape.
It lets you view your profile from the perspective of family members, friends, coworkers, or anyone else on Facebook, letting you fine tune what other users can see.
Tweaking the visual display of your profile is surprisingly intuitive. Tap the star button on a photo or video to "feature" it on the Timeline, causing it to spread to the full width of the window.
To minimize, click the star button again, and completely pull it from the Timeline by clicking "edit," and "Hide from Timeline. For that, you'll need to permanently delete a post or untag yourself from a photo or video to remove yourself. With Timeline you can still interact with users , but in my view it will become harder to convert users to customers or brand advocates.
A bakery uses Timeline to show off its treats. Do some planning before creating your page, including choosing images and apps, and developing a strategy for growing your fan base. To start a new Facebook page, first click the Create a Page link. After clicking the Get Started button, you need to upload a profile photo, add information about your business, and choose your Facebook page address.
Then you can start inviting friends and working with the new Admin Panel. If you already have a Facebook business page, when you sign in Facebook will likely display a prompt about how to get started with the Timeline layout, so follow those steps. First off, add a cover photo to your page, expressing in an bypixel image what your company is about.
The About section becomes more prominent, so fill it well. The About section contains the same information as in the previous layout but stands out more prominently, so be sure to complete this portion.
You likely filled in this content during the page-setup process, but you can still modify it by clicking the Admin Panel button. Select the Manage drop-down menu and then choose Edit Page. Application boxes give you a way to add interactivity to your page, similar to the Facebook tabs from the older page layout. Though the top row offers four boxes, the one for Photos is fixed, so you have just three to work with there.
Among the dozen boxes total, eight are visible only when the visitor clicks the down arrow next to the top four app boxes. You can add a custom, bypixel image to represent your app box. Hover over the box that you want to change, and a pencil icon appears. Click that icon to edit, and then select Edit Settings for a dialog box that will allow you to remove the application box, rename it, or change the custom image. Clicking Change opens a new Facebook window.
Within the new browser window will be your current image, plus another link called Change. Click the link and upload the new image. You can move app boxes around by hovering over an app box, clicking the pencil icon, and selecting the application that you would like to swap positions with. You can also remove an app completely. If you create a custom Facebook page, it will appear in one of these application boxes, so you will want to use an image and box order that display it prominently.
You still can create custom Facebook pages via iframes coding or with third-party applications such as Pagemodo , but the procedure involves a few key changes.
The star icon allows you to highlight a post on your Timeline. This means the post will span across both columns. Use this option to call attention to important posts. As you scroll down your Timeline, you can also add a new post in that period of time by clicking on the center line.
I know you may be frustrated with yet another change. We truly do believe this is a good change for Pages.
Timeline proves the importance of creating and sharing engaging content that captures the attention of your audience. What do you have planned for your new Timeline? Tell us in the comments section below. Director of Content Marketing ConstantContact. On a mission to provide small businesses and nonprofits practical, step-by-step marketing advice so they can do more business and more for their cause. Grateful to travel the country showing audiences how to make sense of online marketing.
Skip to content. Timeline Page Info and Buttons. Timeline Gear Button Menu. Timeline View Posts Options. Timeline Status Update Box. Timeline Milestone Updates. Timeline Pinned Post. Timeline Navigation and Status Bar.
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