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January 29, 2007

 Not About Me  

I've recently become amazed by how so many blogs don't have an "About Me" page. Then I became amazed at how blogging platforms don't support a simple 'About Me' page out-of-the box.

The FindMeOn blog ( http://blog.findmeon.com ) runs on wordpress. Wordpress lets you quickly create a page that it pushes into the template. There's no default 'about' -- but its easy to use.

Movable Type, on the other hand, is a bit of a nightmare. One needs to master their configuration and site layout system to make a static about me page.

WordPress and MovableType are just two of dozens of platforms - I'm sure some are better, and I'm sure many are worse.

But it's 2007 and every-other-person has a blog. All these systems should have a default 'about' page. Perhaps even default pages for site policies ( copyright/left , privacy ), and contact. One hour of developer time to support these common features saves hundreds of hours of user time.

Posted by Jonathan at January 29, 2007 1:01 AM