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Customizing your Woobox entry pages is now only limited by your imagination.  By using our new HTML Form option, you can replace our standard forms with your own completly custom input forms.  You can use any input fields you like, require them, and set custom error messages.   All user input will be automatically stored in the Woobox export file for your promotion.  You can still use all of our great viral features with custom forms such as bonus entries when friends enter, multi-page required liking, bonus entries for liking, and more.  The first campaign run with this new feature was the “Postcard from South Africa” Sweepstakes by South African Airways (shown below).  If you’d like to see some live examples …

Earlier this year, we introduced a feature called FriendGate for Custom Tabs, and this week we’re happy to announce another gating option: FormGate.  This new feature allows you to require visitors to complete an input form before accessing your tab content.  It can be used with or without turning on FriendGate and/or FanGate.   We’re offering FormGate for Free through November 2011.  Afterwards it will be part of the Woobox Plus plan.

You can create your FormGate page from the Tab Settings of your custom tab.   Form inputs are entered using HTML, but can be customized using the WYSIWYG Editor.  As with many of our apps and features, FormGate collects and stores the submitted data for you.  You can view a …

You no longer have to type HTML source code to edit your custom Facebook page tabs.  We’ve added a WYSIWYG editor as an option when you’re setting up your page tab using our Static IFRAME Tab app.  You can easily switch between Source and Editor mode depending on your preference.  You can also use the new Open in new window option at the top to give yourself plenty of room for your HTML editing.  If you haven’t tried it yet you can install a page tab here.

In the past, Facebook page admins could use the Static FBML app to create custom page tabs.   A couple weeks ago, when Facebook turned off new installs of the Static FBML app we thought it would be a great time to launch an easy and powerful app to add custom page tabs.  We call it our Static IFRAME Tab App.

If you’ve used our apps, you know we’re not about to just throw up an html form and call it a day like some others have done.  Nope.  We are very confident this is the best Page tab app you will find.  Here’s why…

HTTP/SSL Support – Without SSL support, your users won’t see your custom tab if they are using …