Want to create your own Facebook Fan page for yourself, your business or your website?  It is easy to do – if you know the right places to look.  I recently created one to help promote my various projects, and now I want to help you do the same.  This is my guide on how to setup and create a Facebook Fan Page.

Getting Started with the Facebook Fan Page

If you have never created a Facebook Fan Page before, the place you want to start Facebook Pages.  Once there, click the “Create Page” button in the upper right hand corner of the web page.

Basic Facebook Fan Page Information Help

Next, you can choose to create an official page or a community page.  Official pages are controlled by one (or a team) of people on your end and is the route you will probably take.  The community pages are more for a cause or an idea, like the “I Love Toast!” fan page.  The scary thing is, that might exist.

Depending on what your Facebook Fan Page will be about, you will need to select:

• Local Business
• Brand, Product or Organization
• Artist, Band or Public Figure

Then in the drop down box, you will choose another classification for yourself.  For example, you could select that you are a Brand, Product or Organization and then choose Website.  This just helps Facebook organize your placement and also will help others find your Facebook Fan Page within Facebook itself.

Naming Your Facebook Fan Page

Type your page name in next.  Keep it short, descriptive and to the point.  Click the check mark box saying that you are an official representative and blah blah blah, then click the “Create Official Page” button.  Your new Facebook Fan Page has been created.  Now you can go in there, and start customizing it, inviting friends and more.  I will touch on that topic another day.

Hope this helps you when it comes to creating your own Facebook Fan Page.  Remember, you are all invited to come join my own Facebook Fan Page I created for all my various projects.  Come join in on the fun at Mitch’s Projects on Facebook for more Mitch-like goodness.

Ever wonder if there was a search engine devoted to just searching Twitter images? Oh there is – and its name is Twtimage.  This website is a Twitter photo search engine.  It will fetch search results from twitpic, tweetphoto, img.ly and yfrog.com.  So, how does it work and is it worth your time?

Well, to start things out we navigate ourselves to the website, and type in a search term. I am going to type in HostingCon 2010, since that happened last week.  I am sure somebody had pictures of that, right?

Darn it.  Ok, how about we go with that other big convention, ComicCon?  Whoo hoo, we have results…

When you click on one of the thumbnailed images in the search results, you are taken to the main page for that image on whatever service it was fetched from.

While it might not be perfect yet – I would definitely say to keep an eye on twtimage.com as I am sure it will only get better from here.

Once you load the tools up, you can pick from a number of different template designs, or browse through some of the most popular ones.  Then all you do is pick a color, change it – then move onto the next.  The entire thing is a very zen-like experience.  Well, it is if you were ever into coloring as a kid.

Here is a little ‘bit more about the tool from the developers:

Use themeleon to customize the way Twitter looks for you and how your profile looks to others. Use any of the more than 685,085 background patterns & 1,043,054 color palettes on COLOURlovers or customize any of the colors or patterns to get just the right design for you.

Here is what I was able to do with my own Twitter page after just a few minutes of playing with the Twitter design tools:

You know, you can always come tweet with me @mitchkeeler, anytime!

Go color your own Twitter page over at the Twitter Profile Designer, and leave me a comment if you are impressed!  Would love to see what design you come up with using this Twitter designer toolkit.

Here is Chris explaining the basics about Geeks:

It is a cool idea, and I like it thus far.  We will see where it goes from here.  If you want to give it a shot, feel free to make friends with me.

http://geeks.pirillo.com/profile/Mitch