It’s a good thing to try out new things, but sometimes those things you try out simply aren’t very good. Pagemodo automatic Facebook Page/Tab creator is one of them.
I read about www.PageModo.com in PC World Magazine. I decided to take a look to see if the online application was as great and as easy to use as PC World Magazine said it was. I ran it through set up and published my page using their free version. I spent quite a bit of time working with the interface adding images and text. What I found was that this was more frustrating to use than creating your own developer page with HTML.
This is my feedback:
- It was impossible to resize the images in the template. The grab and pull action to the bounding box would not work on the two templates that I tried.
- When I tried to load my image in one template a black box overlayed it even in publishing, no matter what I tried my header image was obscured. I changed to a new template and did not have this issue, but what a time pit getting the image and content in just to scrap the template as unusable.
- Text was easy to add but better make sure your character count between columns is exact as there is no way to balance the content short of removing words.
- Want a Fan Gate or another page, you’ll pay a monthly charge for use. With Facebook turning your business page wall into a community site where anyone can post I’m not sure if in the future world of Facebook a Fan Gate will even be allowed.
I have to say that for people who have no HTML skills and hours of time on their hands, they may be able to painstakingly create a nice looking page for their Facebook Business page. Will I use it again, no, it is too time consuming and buggy for professional use.