Best About pages
01 Aug 07 Filed in:Blogging
When you visit a bog and you need to know fast who is behind the scenes, behind the ideas, or behind the times, you look for an About Page. From a site owner's perspective, the About page is also a great opportunity to market yourself or your company in one big hit.
The About page deserves some attention, but this crucial piece of real estate on a website is often neglected. Blogger profiles for instance, seem to fail miserably most of the time. When I started blogging, it took me a while to even add an About page, let alone try and do something creative with it. However, there are plenty of enlightened folks out there, pushing the envelope, and here are 3 that caught my eye.
It's Monkey Mamou This About page is a quickfire synopsis of a troubled mind with a stomach prone to heaving. She sets the scene well for what it is to come elsewhere in this quirky witty blog. For the inquisitive, you have to go clicking FYI for an explanation of the origins of the title Monkey Mamou. I was a little disappointed, to be honest, after reading that Mamou is a place, not some sort of goddess. Perhaps some important facts are best left off the About page and left to the imagination.
Larry is different. He has an About Corner. Dispensing with tradition, he tells us all about his blog from a highly public place in the sidebar. Good tactic, especially as his inimitable face beams out from above to attract your attention. (I think like most famous people he has copyrighted his personal bits and pieces, so I will not risk a lawsuit with a photo here of his bonce.)
Bottom line, the About page can draw visitors into your world quicker than any other page. Alternatively, if you want to leave visitors in the dark, add a blank or boring About page. (This could even be number 11 on the list of tips to drive people away from your site.) I know I will be revisiting The Pisstakers About page just to check where it figures on a scale of 1 to 10. Maybe you should too, assuming you have a website!
The About page deserves some attention, but this crucial piece of real estate on a website is often neglected. Blogger profiles for instance, seem to fail miserably most of the time. When I started blogging, it took me a while to even add an About page, let alone try and do something creative with it. However, there are plenty of enlightened folks out there, pushing the envelope, and here are 3 that caught my eye.
About pages that rock
It's Monkey Mamou This About page is a quickfire synopsis of a troubled mind with a stomach prone to heaving. She sets the scene well for what it is to come elsewhere in this quirky witty blog. For the inquisitive, you have to go clicking FYI for an explanation of the origins of the title Monkey Mamou. I was a little disappointed, to be honest, after reading that Mamou is a place, not some sort of goddess. Perhaps some important facts are best left off the About page and left to the imagination.
This is an About page with info to a magnitude of ten more indepth than any About page out there. I have read 60 lines down, how many more to go? That will teach me for taking the piss.I get tired of trying to find new creative ways to write an about page.... Since this blog site is mostly about me, my views on just about everything, and what I do, I figured I just fill out one of those online surveys , in order to stop Pisstaker from mentioning that I don't have an about page...
About page is an important part of the mix
Bottom line, the About page can draw visitors into your world quicker than any other page. Alternatively, if you want to leave visitors in the dark, add a blank or boring About page. (This could even be number 11 on the list of tips to drive people away from your site.) I know I will be revisiting The Pisstakers About page just to check where it figures on a scale of 1 to 10. Maybe you should too, assuming you have a website!
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