by Photini C. The 32 comments

Facebook has a clean blue and white appearance, and this is uniform for everyone. Or is it?

Facebook, at first glance, doesn’t seem to allow users to change the appearance of their profile page the same way you can with many other social networking sites such as MySpace and Friendster. And perhaps this is justified. In MySpace, you can paste HTML codes to change the background, text color, and layout of your personal page. As a result, it is not uncommon to chance upon a gaudy and poorly designed personal blog, MySpace, or Friendster page.

However, plug-ins now exist which do allow you to change the general appearance of your Facebook page. This works by adding a ‘layer’ or ‘skin’ over your Facebook page.

A few examples that offer Facebook layouts are:

1. Facebook Expressions
2. FB Styles Layout
3. Page Rage

For the most part, these pages are pre-designed templates that fall under several main categories, from movies to religion to music to fashion and so on. Some allow you to custom-make your own layouts as well. However, you won’t have as much flexibility as you would have if you were allowed to fully manipulate the HTML the way you can with MySpace etc.

The important thing to note here is that you need Yontoo Layers in order to view the layouts. This is available as a separate (533kb) download to your computer and will require you to run the installer and install it as you would any regular program. This is annoying because your friends need to have Yontoo Layers installed as well in order for them to view the layouts that you have chosen or created.

So if you are interested in changing your Facebook page layout, give it a shot. You won’t know how many of your friends have already installed Yontoo/ customized layouts without installing it yourself first, though you might have some idea from your friends’ newsfeeds – look out for news of people installing Facebook Expressions or Styles Layout (or any such similar applications).

Because Facebook layouts install a layer over the existing standard template, you can also go the other way and avoid installing Yontoo Layers, which would ensure you always see the reassuring simplicity of the standard Facebook page.


 

i need to get oto facebook pleaseeee x

posted 20 months ago

able to get on facebook on skl computer help please how do i do it x

posted 20 months ago

why can't facebook provide the option to customise skins?

posted 19 months ago

I don't know Joshua... you'll have to ask them... haha.

posted 19 months ago

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posted 19 months ago

.....facebook shud provide d options to customize skin...jz lyk frendster


posted 19 months ago

yeah we need it badly they shud provide us a customize skin jaz like friendster..

posted 18 months ago

hmmm...we nid a new layout from facebook its llok like an ordinary...make it cool and fun..?

posted 15 months ago

whaTS GOING ON WITH FACEBOOK HAVING DRAMA GETTING BACK ON TO IT? HOW DO I GET MY FRIEND ON MY CONTACT LIST A WAY THATS SIMPLE!!!

posted 14 months ago

the old style is better

posted 13 months ago