2016 Changes to Facebook Pages

One thing that is constant about Facebook is that it is always changing!

If you haven't taken a look at your Facebook cover you may want to. Facebook is rolling out changes to the placement of the thumbnail image and tabs on pages.
You may have designed a cover graphic to align with certain tabs or to avoid overlap with the thumbnail image and with these changes you will want to update your cover to coordinate with the new look.

​Look For These Changes

Your page may or may not have changed over to the new format yet. When it does, you will notice the following

• The thumbnail graphic no longer lays on top of the header graphic, rather it is positioned on the left hand side of the graphic. If you allotted space in your header graphic to accommodate for this overlay, you'll notice a blank area there where the thumbnail used to be.
• Tabs are now located on the left-hand side underneath the thumbnail
• The call-to action button is now much more prominent and located on the bottom left-hand corner underneath the header graphic. In the image above, you can see my "Sign-Up" button displayed quite prominently in blue
• Content that used to be on the left column, such as about summary, photos, videos and visitor posts are now located on the right column
  

Actions You Should Take

My suggestion is to look at your Facebook page as a visitor would.  Take a careful look at your header graphic and determine if it needs to be redesigned. I usually recommend changing up the header graphic at least quarterly anyway, so now is as good of a time as any to change it to fit the new format. In the past, the following sizes were recommended for header and thumbnail graphics and those look to have stayed the same:

Header Graphic Recommended Size: 851px - 314 px
Thumbnail Graphic Recommended Size - 160 px x 160 px

​If you find any additional changes please comment below!