Facebook announced last October that it would be reducing the width of application tabs to optimize for the new profile and Facebook Pages format. These changes will be taking place next week (the week of August 23rd, 2010).
Basically starting next week, application tabs will be keep your profile information in the left column (as the wall page does today) instead of removing it. Page owners and administrators can log in to see their pages in the new format today.
As you can see, the image for our newsletter sign-up form on Facebook is cut off a little at the right. This needs to be fixed, but at least the form is still usable. Other pages that we’ve looked at recently won’t be so lucky.
In order to keep your custom tabs running smoothly, you need to constrain them to be viewable in 520 pixels — a reduction of about 1/3 (240 pixels).
So are you ready for Facebook 520? Let us know.
