If you’re new to Facebook (or even if you’ve been using it for a while), it’s useful to understand how Facebook names the elements in its layout. Facebook utilizes both two and three column layouts for different parts of its site with a header and footer containing global links. Except for the header and footer, users can edit their content layout. This is an important design consideration, because depending on where your content is loaded on a user’s page; you need to take into account different widths.

On the far left of all pages, users have access to the different applications they have installed in the navigation bar. By default, there are only four applications as shown in the figure, so, depending on how many applications your user has, your application might not appear in their navigation bar. Obviously, if you’re designing an application, you want the Facebook user to not only add the application and use it but to also have it in a convenient location on their Facebook pages.

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