FACEBOOK APPLICATION DEVELOPMENT
Quizzes, competitions, games, shopping… There are many different types of Facebook applications that help animate a community, suggest new services, develop one’s reputation or even improve the Internet users’ lives.
Facebook applications are also excellent means of communication in real-time, of obtaining information on users and addressing an audience targeted by age, gender, location or, even, areas of interest…
InfoStyle helps you master this new communication tool, in line with your marketing strategy and regardless of your project and budget.
FACEBOOK APPLICATION SPECIFICS
A Facebook application is a Web application, directly integrated to the social media. It can thus potentially be accessed by billions of members that are registered.
Based on very specific technologies, the development of Facebook applications requires knowledge of FBML, OAuth, etc. technologies in addition to HTML, PHP, JavaScript, CSS… Web skills.
OUR OFFERS
- Creation of a Facebook specific application integrated in the customer’s fan page
- Implementation of Facebook Connect on an external website
- Use of Facebook (Insights) statistics and of data via Open Graph
- Other specific demands
OUR METHODOLOGY
As for the development of any kind of application or software, InfoStyle uses an in-depth project management methodology for the development of Facebook applications.
DESIGN PRIOR TO THE PROJECT
- Need, feasibility, competition and cost analysis of the project
- Drafting of the specifications, including the project description, the general, technical and functional specifications and the schedule
DESIGN
- Development
- Enhancements to support potential workload peaks (enhancement of database requests, cache management…)
- Inclusion of virality mechanisms (wall publications, “Like” buttons, invitations…)
- Code and user manual documentation
- Iterative tests, with a smooth project management methodology
PRODUCTION AND MAINTENANCE
- Integration of the Facebook application in the customer’s page
- Delivery of the application
- Follow-up of performances and bug corrections
- Help and advice in anticipation of potential evolutions