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Facebook® Application Development For Dummies®
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Facebook® Application Development For Dummies®

by Jesse Stay
May 2011
Beginner
408 pages
10h 27m
English
For Dummies
Content preview from Facebook® Application Development For Dummies®

Chapter 7

Integrating Facebook on Your Web Site through Graph API

In This Chapter

  • Preparing your site for Graph API
  • IDing users
  • Making your site a social experience

My book shows you some simple ways to make your Web site a part of the already powerful Facebook network. Adding Facebook to your Web site can be a terrific way to build relationships among your users, while allowing them to still participate in the environments they frequent daily, all in a comfortable environment. Integrating your site with Facebook allows you to “think socially,” bringing your users' close friends and family and relationships right into your own environment. When they are all of the sudden experiencing your site alongside their friends, it becomes a much more intimate environment for them. They want to stay longer. They want to interact longer. They are influenced to buy your product as a result.

Now it's time to get your hands a little dirtier by integrating simple code like JavaScript or PHP to make your Web site a little more social. I start with some basic tips as you design your Facebook integration.

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