howstuffworks.com
How Stuff Works is an informative and easy to understand website which answers day to day questions to more complicated, specialised questions. It covers a wide range of areas including Health, Money, Science and Travel just to name a few. These categories are then sub-divided into about six areas which make the information needed easy to find.
The endless amount of topics, each contain animations, pictures or video clips which not only increases the audiences’ understanding of the topic but also keeps the audience entertained! Having a glance at the topics increased my curiosity of how things do work and I believe I could spend hours on the website to increase my general knowledge and have all my curiosities answered!
The audience are able to sign up for weekly news updates from the website keeping them up-to-date with all the great stuff going on in the world and it also contains brain teasers, not only for fun but also to challenge the audience. A new feature of the website is the section on readers’ opinions where the audience are open to discussion boards in which they can state their opinions and views of various topics.
The downside of this website is that the immediate presentation is not as attractive to the eye as say the BBC Science and Nature Website. The BBC website caught my eye straightaway and I was curious to have a look around, whereas, it was only after I had a look around the ‘how stuff works’ website that I found the positives of the site.
Younsuk Oh
2 comments:
It really is an amazing website and a great resource for finding out - er...how stuff works. One thing I wondered though when I read your review was: who writes it? And why do we believe them? It's unclear to me whether this is a wiki, or produced by some organisation. Do you know? How trustworthy is it? And if we do trust it, how does it put across its authoritive status?
we talked about who wrote it in class recently. The articles tend to be anonymous, but I remember a time when they had made it clearer who the authors were. We didn't have time in class to work it out, maybe some sections have and some don't.
It used to be marketed as Marshall Brain's howstuffworks, focusing more on him as an author. The company bios online are pretty corporate though.
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