You have until October 1st.

You may or may not be aware but if you are using an iFrame application on facebook for your fan page and you have not set up the secure SSL for the page you are framing, it will quit working.

You now have 2 options, you purchase and get your SSL certificate installed. (this can be a bigger headache than building the site) Or you purchase SSL hosting from somewhere....

So the SSL certificate is going to cost you between $20-$30 per year and the hosting if you do it yourself would run around $48-$72 per year and you need a domain to host it on (yours may work) so that may not cost you any more.

Roughly you are looking at $60 to $100 per year in cost if you do this on your own.

A little word of warning...

1. Do not go with the FREE SSL certificate, the visitors to the page will be greeted with a Popup telling them that the page is from an untrusted source.

2. If you decide to do this on hosting that you already have, be warned that your other sites on that hosting may go down for some time when the SSL is installed. It took me more than a day to get all of them back up and it was only because I pointed to the problem with the SSL or they would continue to blame me.

What does this effect? This effects all those users that access facebook via https instead of http.

If you want to see what an iframe looks like go to https://www.facebook.com/tacomapizza

Pat, does this include embeded code from YouTube video's?

I don't know about that. This is for the iframed fan page. I don't think that this will affect the posts on the wall.

How this works is that the page that is in the frame is an actual web site hosted somewhere else. If you had a youtube video embedded in that site without https then yes it will affect the page. Any link off of that fan page that does not have an SSL certificate is going to be affected. What will happen is that a warning will pop up and ask the user if they want to continue. With people being so scared of viruses they will probably click no.