A great example of an About page

You might recall my post talking about creating a perfect about page for a blog.

One reader followed the advice, and that of the many commenters, and created a cracking example, which is worth checking out.

Dave Raybould is a snow boarding instructor, and as a boarder myself, we hit it off straight away. His site is called Simplysnowboard.com and here's a direct link to his about page:  http://www.simplysnowboard.com/about/

This is what I like about it:

• It starts off with a Why? question. Why am I here?
• It clearly tells me what I'm going to get from the blog
• It gives me options about how to use the site
• It tells me a little about Dave and I get to see what he looks like

It covers all the key points. But I would suggest a couple of small changes:

1/ Give me some options of where to go next in the "How should I use the site?" section. Maybe group some posts into lists like "For beginners" or "Techniques"

2/ Link up the RSS feed and email subscription into the page, so I don't have to go looking for it.

3/ Give me a little more personal stuff. Where are you living now? Do you have a partner or kids? What else do you do other than snowboarding? People are really interested to know more about you. Your lifestyle is cool, capitalise on that.

4/ Add another image of you without the gear on, so we can see what you really look like!

Adding those would make this a perfect about page for me. What do the rest of you think?

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1/ Switching to a virtual private server

2/ What happened mate?

3/ I am Web 2.0