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Your blog’s “about me” page will be read by a vast audience that includes anyone in the world who randomly finds your site, potential employers, potential significant others, and your mom. It’s your opportunity to tell the world who you are and what you do, so don’t squander it.

There’s no “right” way to author your about me page. Some read like resumes, and others read like fun stories. Designers have the skills to add a little (or a big) artistic flair to their blogs’ autobiographies, but you don’t need to be a designer to be creative. Most pages at a minimum include the author’s name, purpose for creating a website, and links to the author’s other online content. It’s all about presentation.

A little stumped? We’ve rounded up 21 creative examples for inspiration. Add your favorite about me pages in the comments below.


1. Aaron Iba





Why write about who you are when a psychologist has already done it for you? AppJet founder Aaron Iba's about me page is the scanned psychological evaluation of his 7-year-old self. “Aaron is a handsome, friendly, and outgoing boy, tall for his age, with a ready smile and an open and verbal manner,” the report states. Yea, we’d post that, too.


2. Brad Colbow




Explanation for the co-author of a weekly comic: “He spends part of his days wondering how to combine his two loves, comic books and easter eggs. The rest of his time he spends trying to design killer user interfaces.”


3. gummisig




Are these the only three options?


4. DreamerLines




This about me page is part of a larger, artistic site that shifts to show you what you’re interested in instead of opening new pages.


5. Sohtanaka




Good writing states the five W's quickly and concisely on this page. The format makes writing an about me page a little bit easier.


6. Rob Palmer




We're not sure why the bird likes Rob so much, but it makes us like him a little bit, too.


7. Alex Dawson




Don't be depressed if you can answer the question, "Who am I?" with one sentence.


8. Dan




It's appropriate that the bio page of iamdan.com begins, "hi. i am dan." It kind of makes you want to say "hi" back.


9. Tim Van Damme




This is more of a mini "about me" site, but the way it lays out all of Tim's social networks and sites alongside his bio is quite nifty.


10. MetaLab




Here's a site that practices what it preaches.


11. aialex.com




What is he pointing at?


12. Dustin Curtis




Most about me pages don't include phrases like, "Dustin Curtis will die on March 23, 2068 at 4:34AM, probably from a myocardial infarction (projection)." Curtis says he got the idea to put his life into a time line when he realized that every year, 1.2% of his life goes by. "It's morbid, but it's also motivational," he says.

He based the projections on the best data he could get from the U.S. National Institutes of Health and the World Health Organization for a 22 year old male in New York City.


13. Odds&Ends




Zhixin Lim interviews himself for his photo blog's about me page. Two of his first questions are "Do people find your name weird?" and "So, how do I pronounce your name?"


14. The Big Noob




Pairing a photo of an intimidating leather-bound book with a lighthearted explanation that includes the sentence, "Fast forwarding 3 years, we find our heroes neck deep in the poo of that same client work," will certainly get attention.


15. Binary Bonsai




Why does everything sound so much more authoritative when it comes from the Hitchhiker's Guide?


16. 99daz




Remember that about me page that was only a sentence long? Not this page. Possibly the longest "about me" page on the Internet, this literally includes the author's life story -- complete with photos, video, and even soundbites. We haven't read the whole thing, but we're still impressed.


17. The Jungle of Life




Lance Ekum blogs about the journey/jungle of life. So it's oddly appropriate that his about me page features the important people in his life impersonating jungle animals.


18. Troundup




You would expect a blog about T-shirts to be casual, and this about me page is refreshingly so. Basically, it's a list of random facts. One of the more scandalous snippets reads, "I don’t actually wear graphic tees that often anymore (maybe I shouldn’t admit that)."


19. Sean Geng




Sean Geng created a self-portrait graphic and dubbed it "the floating Asian kid." It actually floats around the page when you mouse over it.


20. quomo




Quomo sometimes sings or plans things or travels or even works out (and has a illustrative graphic for each), but above all (also pictured) quomo does design.


21. Ethan Marcotte




As far as personal branding goes, it's hard to top "Unstoppable Robot Ninja."


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