How to create events in the new Facebook fan page

Last week I was trying to create a new event on KRC's Facebook fan page about our upcoming Unity Meeting. It took me almost an hour to find it with the new design, so I wanted to share it with you:

This is a typical facebook fan page:

Facebook creating a new event

Before, you had to click under "See all events" and it had an option for adding new events. (Which is not that intuitive either)

So this time, you have to go to Edit page
Facebook creating a new event (1)

And then pop up the admin options of the "Events" app, and click "edit".
Facebook creating a new event (2)

The direct link is http://www.facebook.com/editevent.php?gid=28515203003 (replace the number at the end with your Fan page's ID)

Speaking of which, most Facebook apps need some serious work in user interface and navigation. Either there is something wrong with Facebook's basic UI libraries, or the API is so complicated that programmers get absorbed by it and forgot to work on the UI. Others seem to agree.

Posted on 03/16/2009 - 10:40am

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