Facebook Row of Photos at Top of Profile - In December TechCrunch published an excellent tutorial on how to hack the top row of Facebook pictures. Recently I was able to modify this to advertise for one of our events, a lecture by Duff Goldman.
First, this event was not well suited to the types of pictures otherwise used in these hacks (scroll to the end of the article to see some new pictures that have been used). I didn’t have one large picture we wanted to fill that space, but rather a series of information we wanted to display. Second, unlike personal profiles, the row of pictures on a Page is randomized from the last 5 posted pictures. Thus I had to create 5 separate images that would serve our need in any order.
Here’s how I did it.
1. Design 5 separate images for each of these blocks. Unfortunately I’m away from my work computer right now so I’ll update this with the size. If you are interested in changing your main profile picture too, you can do so with this template. I decided to keep our standard logo.
2. Create the template as outlined in the TechCrunch article. However, when you get to step #5, bring in each of your files, aligning them inside the template. Then proceed with the TechCrunch tutorial to step #8.
3. Create an album with these 5-6 pictures. There’s no tagging on a Page as there is on a profile so that won’t be necessary. Facebook will simply pull from your most recent album.
4. To take this one step further, you can now tag anyone in these pictures, creating the same look on their page. Remember for this you will want to tag the pictures in reverse order, last to first, on how you want them to appear.
If you add new pictures in an album owned by your page before you are ready to remove this banner, you can just click the x on each photo to hide it. If you want to unhide pictures later go to Edit Page > Profile Pictures and at the bottom you will see “Row of photos at top of profile: Unhide All.” Or simply click on Change Picture from the profile picture.
Let me know what you do with your pictures – I’d love to see what other creative options people create!
