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Date Wheel is not your usual date calculator. While it may have been said that "anyone can write a date calculator," not everyone can write a GOOD one, and we like to think ours is the best. Date Wheel has won awards in the past and has been recently nominated in the 2009 Best App Ever Awards, sponsored by 148apps, in the category of "Best Time Management". This post was inspired by Dan Grigsby's challenge over at Mobile Orchard and will spell out some key features and design insight in an award-winning app that has celebrated a decade in existence. Read on to see if you agree and, if so, please nominate us by Dec. 31, 2009, and/or vote for us in January if we make the cut. Thanks!

During design of our Date Wheel and Serving Sizer iPhone apps, we wanted to include an "about" page with information and links for contacting us, sharing our apps, and upselling. We considered several options, but found using html to this end was the best solution for us. Since it worked well, we thought we'd share the method. This post will describe the steps necessary to create an html "about" page.

To make an html "about" page with Interface Builder, you need to:

Add a View Controller for the "about" page to your project. Then, change the class name from UIViewController to something like AboutPageViewController. Next, add a Web View to the View Controller: