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Ask away

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Posted by: Sara -

My friend Dean

has this great about me page that lets people ask him questions and he
answers them. I thought this was a brilliant idea. Most people
typically have the boring FAQ or About me page; I was about to do the
same when I came across Dean’s About page. I modified Dean’s version to
store the data in a database and provde a few other capabilities.

This
gives readers the opportunity to ask me what they want and I will
answer them! Will make for a much interesting “About Me” page. My page
is called: Ask Me and you can find it in my menu now.

Please stop by and ask me a question!

14 comments for “Ask away”

1
Kevin

Neat idea. Definitely something different than the standard “About Me” page.

Now you just have to fend off the scary questions, like:

If
you had a dog and a cat in your boat, waves crashing into the side
every 37 seconds and you only have a pocket knife, an oar and some rope
… at what time would you arrive at dock 3?

Yeah, scary …

September 11th, 2005 at 2:18 pm
2
Conrad

It’s pretty cool Sara. When can I get my hands on it? You should also display the last 10 or so and have the others archived..

September 11th, 2005 at 5:40 pm
3
Sara

Kevin — Yes, questions like that will be tricky to answer.

Conrad
— If I ever figure out how to make it a plugin, you can be a tester! Or
if you want it sooner let me know and I’ll tell you what you need to do
to use it :)

You are right about limiting the number of questions. Will do that after I get it working as a plugin.

If anyone else has any other suggestions, let me know please. Comments and criticisms are welcome!

September 11th, 2005 at 6:02 pm
4
Andrew Johnstone

It
should be relatively easy todo, however are you going to be motivated
enough to carry it through:) Are we going to have to push you for it?

September 12th, 2005 at 1:01 am
5
Sara

Andrew
— The plan is to do it. I won’t have time during the week, but I will
next weekend. So, I will dig into it by then. If I don’t, feel free to
get on me about it :p.

September 12th, 2005 at 7:51 am
6
Andrew

Are you saying my “about me” page is typical & boring?

:P

September 12th, 2005 at 2:21 pm
7
Drew  

What happens if you don’t know the answer? Do you explode or something worse?

September 12th, 2005 at 2:22 pm
8
Sara

Drew, I really hope I don’t explode. You’ll be left to pick up the pieces. Could be a nasty mess.

September 13th, 2005 at 10:54 am
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[…]
This gives readers the opportunity to ask her what they want and she
will answer them! Will make for a much interesting “About Me” page. Her
page is called: Ask Me and you can find it in her menu now. […]

September 13th, 2005 at 12:31 pm
10
Amit Gupta

pretty kewl idea!! ;)

September 15th, 2005 at 10:58 am
11
Dean Edwards

Daddy or Chips? I got the same question:

http://dean.edwards.name/about/#q34

It’s a british thing…

September 15th, 2005 at 3:02 pm
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ilovecode » Ask Me Plugin Finally Released - in need of nitpicking b… i mean testers.

[…] Many many many months ago I decided I didn’t want the typical “About me” page. Sure that way I could dictate what people knew about me and frame their perception of me, but what fun is that . I came across a script by a very nice guy, Dean who offered to give me his script! This was awesome. Dean’s script had the functionality I needed, but I wanted more functionality and wanted to put a database behind it rather than rely on files. I spent about 20 hours and wound up with a pretty neat script and launched it about 16 months ago. […]

January 1st, 2007 at 1:12 am
13
Matthew

What about “code” do you love soo much that influenced you to name your cite after it?

January 6th, 2007 at 8:49 am
14
DragonFlyEye

Whoa! Great plugin! I’m going to get this one going, very soon!

August 3rd, 2007 at 3:44 pm

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