diff --git a/app/controllers/info_controller.rb b/app/controllers/info_controller.rb
index f8a115c..14f44f8 100644
--- a/app/controllers/info_controller.rb
+++ b/app/controllers/info_controller.rb
@@ -1,2 +1,9 @@
 class InfoController < ApplicationController
+
+  def about
+    respond_to do |format|
+      format.html
+      format.xml
+    end
+  end
 end
diff --git a/app/views/info/about.html.erb b/app/views/info/about.html.erb
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..db6df1b
--- /dev/null
+++ b/app/views/info/about.html.erb
@@ -0,0 +1,9 @@
+<div class="box">
+	<div class="border" style="width:500px;padding-left:25px;padding-right:25px;text-align:left;">
+		<h1 style="text-align:center;">about</h1>
+		<p>this is just a simple site I use to showcase my flickr photos and uploaded screenshots
+			from <a href="http://www.realmacsoftware.com/littlesnapper/">little snapper</a>.</p>
+		<p>i may consider open sourcing it later, but it's not anything that someone of average 
+			rails ability couldn't do in a couple of hours.</p>
+	</div>
+</div>
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