We're now on Facebook! I said - WE ARE NOW ON FACEBOOK!

Hello and Happy Holidays everyone!

One of the long-time goals of Remembered.com was to get tightly integrated with Facebook. (If you call 18 months a long time, and in technology 18 months is a lifetime...) We designed the site specifically so it would fit into the 720px Facebook wrapper. Heck, Last week we even redesigned this BLOG so it would fit into the Facebook wrapper. We're simply gluttons for punishment, what can I say?

Our goal was to create a hybrid website. Something that could work as a standalone website AND as a Facebook application. Early on we debated going with the IFrame or rewriting Remembered.com in FBML (Facebook Markup Language). We agonized over learning FBML, especially after we were just getting our hands dirty with Joomla and PHP. Our site probably seems fairly simple from the outside - but Remembered.com has a LOT of moving parts - Registration, Shopping Cart, Invite Module, Photo Gallery, Emails, Comments, etc. that all have to talk to each other - correctly.

Can you imagine having to maintain TWO versions of each? One in PHP and one in FBML? By detecting your FB wrapper it determine's which one to run? Luckily - we didn't go that way. Everything today is served up to you in a single format AND works within the context of the Facebook app. WHEW!

I have give a TON of credit to Adolfo and Ivan for keeping a lot of balls in the air and delivering a superb product to the market. They have given 110%, learned new technology in days instead of weeks, and pushed the envelope with our development partners to make this a great website.

So here we are... Out there and ready to rock. Find us on http://apps.facebook.com/beremembered/

Thanks for all your support and Happy Holidays!

Andy, Ivan, and Adolfo...