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WhatIMade.com Blog

What I Made Website Review

I’ve chosen WhatIMade.com as my second entry into the Dweektory because it is one of those blogs so cool you have to ask yourself, “Why didn’t I think of that?” The design of this website is not even the really cool thing about it! The crafts it shows you how to make are totally awesome.

Scott Bedford uses a combination of funky illustrated machines along with some cool cartoons to entice you into at least taking a look at his blog. Once you begin delving into the website you’ll soon discover some really great “how to” posts on creating things that are extremely neat-o.

The latest post shown in the picture above shows the instructions on how to make a Steampunk Balancing Robot from Recycled Materials. A very unique craft that anyone could make.

Scott tries to post every week so the website is not something you’ll need to check on everyday for that latest idea or craft. Each post looks as though it would take well over a week just to illustrate and prepare for. You can tell many hours of devotion and sweat equity go into everything that is added to the website.

WhatIMade.com is so ultra cool it already won a few Webby Awards. You can subscribe to his feed and he’ll notify you when he’s posted something new that’s fun to make. You can also use the Find Stuff categories in the right sidebar to search out older projects by subject.

This personal blog is entertaining for adults and awesome for kids. Many of the projects look complicated because of the genius illustrations Scott has drawn but when you get down to the nuts and bolts they can be very easy to make. Spend an afternoon with your kid and see how many of the creations you all can make.

This blog is fun, fun, fun! Being a creative person and cartoonist I just want to drop everything I’m doing and create a blog just like this. Maybe one day I will. I highly recommend this blog to everyone, not only for the interesting crafts but for the design of the site and the fantastic illustrations.

It sounds like Scott is getting offers to make bigger and better things and his creations are now showing up in magazines. A book deal could also be in the works. Hop over to the website and stay connected to Mr. Bradford.

Favorite Crafty Posts:

Here are a few really fun posts from WhatIMade.com

Snail Soup Decoy

Dart Gun Targets

Roller Coaster Marble Run
(I used to make these out of Hot Wheels track)

About.Me Social Website

About.Me Website Review

The first website reviewed and listed on Dweeky.com goes to About.Me. This great website was actually the inspiration for Dweeky.com. About.Me has an eclectic collection of people ranging from CEO’s to graphic designers, most calling themselves geeks.

Many of these technology and Internet geeks have businesses online, websites and blogs. One day I wondered how cool it would be to have a directory full of the web entities created by the members of About.Me. It then dawned on me that most Internet surfers would enjoy a one stop location where they could find only the best websites online.

I believe a very realistic number of 2000 websites is attainable and also a very good selection of websites to choose from. About.Me is one of those great websites.

About.Me is a central location for professionals and individuals to create their very own splash page. You can reserve your name and upload a photo for your background. You are then able to add personal information, contact numbers and links. Being creative with your splash page design is half the fun. There are hundreds of very unique designs that you can browse through.

The real beauty of About.Me is that this single online identity becomes a central location pointing visitors to all of your other online properties. One of the factors that really sold me on the website is that you are able to connect to your other online accounts including Facebook, Twitter, YouTube, Flickr, LinkdIn, Instagram, FourSquare and more.

Nice looking icons are created for each of your other services and once clicked a very cool smaller window will open with the feed from that website. Instagram will show your photos, Twitter shows your updates and YouTube will play your videos.

Another aspect of About.Me is that it provides you with an insight into your traffic history, who’s searching for you and what they are doing on your page. I was surprised to find that most visitors to my splash page check my Instagram photos more than anything else.

About.Me is great for browsing other splash pages as well. With a convenient link at the top of the page you can scroll through profile after profile. You’ll quickly find many people with your same interests and backgrounds. Be careful because you may find yourself spending an hour or two sifting though fellow geeks.

About.Me is free! You get to create a very professional splash page that will direct anyone to your other products and services. I highly recommend every web geek grab their own name before they’re all gone.

My splash page is www.about.me/curtistucker. Stop by and see what I’ve got going on.

A Few Favorite About.Me Pages

About.Me allows you to add profile favorites to your dashboard and to share profiles as well. These are a few splash pages that caught my attention.

Ryan Freitas – co-founder of About.Me

Tom Peever – idea steamroller

Kimberly Michelle – making every day extraordinary

Joe Weber – graphic designer extraordinaire