It's not too hard to set up, actually, but there's a step in the process that doesn't really make too much sense, so let me show you what I did to get the Facebook like button and information box on this site.

The first step is really to figure out the Facebook URL of the page you want to link to. This is probably most easily done by going to the page on Facebook and looking in the address box of your browser to see what it shows. For my fan page, it's http://www.facebook.com/askdavetaylor

You'll want to know yours: in fact, it might be easier to just have it in a different tab in your browser when you go through the rest of the process.

Now, while you're looking at that page, notice the "Edit Page" link on the top left:

Click on it and you'll see that there are more options than just "editing" the "page", fortunately, notably including the one we want: "Marketing":

Once you click on "Marketing" you'll see a number of different options that will prove helpful:

You can go back and experiment with the other choices another time. For now, stay focused and click on "Add a Like Box to your Website". Here's where it gets confusing if you're not paying attention:

What it's showing you here is the Like box for a page that isn't your actual Facebook page. It's for the Facebook platform itself, something you are probably less interested in promoting than your own content!

In the first box, you'll want to replace the URL shown -- http://www.facebook.com/platform -- with your own Facebook page URL. That's the tricky little secret of getting this to work. While you're at it, you might fiddle with some of the other settings, as I have done:

When it all looks good to me, I click on "Get Code" and the complicated HTML necessary is displayed:

Fortunately, it's a copy and paste, you don't have to understand what's going on, just not add any glitches when you paste it onto your page! When I paste it here into this blog entry, for example, here's the result:

Roll your cursor over the elements above and you'll see that they're all clickable links. If you're already a fan you won't see a "Like" but instead an "unlike" link too.

Slick, eh? To get it to appear on every page, I just added it to the template of my blog pages and had the blog app rebuild all the pages to include the new code. Done!

Now, have you clicked on "Like" yet to test how that works? :-)