How to get Facebook vanity or custom URL for fan page, in lieu of ugly numbered id URL?

Question

When creating a Facebook fan page, it is assigned a long URL containing a unique ID number. What prerequisites and steps are required to get a Facebook fan page vanity / custom URL?

Answer 1

There is a guide to doing that here.

Essentially just go to http://www.facebook.com/username/ and click "Set a username for your pages" where you will be prompted with options to set up a custom URL for any of your pages.