A lot of themes would include sections wherein you could put a little something about yourself. You would usually have to edit your theme’s sidebar.php to insert whatever you would like to include in that part of your blog’s theme.

There is now an easier way to go about it. Use the About Me widget by Sam Devol. It is still in version 0.96 and he admits that it is his first widget. In any case, it really looks nice. His screencap of the widget and how it works is here.

Stuff you fill in:

• Title – you could be as creative as you want so this could be something like “About this problogger” or anything you want
  
• Alignment – left, center, right
  
• Image URL - where you saved your image
  
• Image title/text – be a bit descriptive
  
• Font color – use either the hexadecimal notation or the layman’s term for the color
  
• Blurb – more descriptions about you, maybe a short paragraph
  
• More about me URL - if you created an About page on your blog, use the URL of that page
  
• More about me title – something like “the rest of the details” or “my resume” in case you have it online
  
• Contact Me – You have 2 choices: a mailto: with your email address or the URL of your contact page, if you made one.
  
• Contact Me title – you could use “contact information” or “contact me”
  

This is pretty friendly enough to use even for someone who is not an HTML geek because this is already a form that you just fill in with your preferences.

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