{"id":5567,"date":"2009-11-04T14:13:30","date_gmt":"2009-11-04T21:13:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wapreview.com\/?p=5567"},"modified":"2014-12-05T21:02:31","modified_gmt":"2014-12-06T05:02:31","slug":"how-stuff-works-mobile-site-wheres-the-namesake-content","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wapreview.com\/5567\/","title":{"rendered":"Why No “How Stuff Works” Articles On howstuffworks.com?"},"content":{"rendered":"
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HowStuffWorks.com<\/span><\/a> is a great site featuring thousands of articles that uses\u00a0 non-technical language, charts, diagrams and videos how all sorts of complex products, technologies and processes work. Typical articles have titles like “How X works” where “X” can be anything from “OLEDs<\/a>” to “identity theft<\/a>“.<\/p>\n I recently discovered that How Stuff Works has a mobile site and immediately headed there to check it out. I have to say I was a little disappointed. There’s nothing wrong with the site’s design,it’s easy to navigate and uses browser detection to optimize markup, images and page size to deliver a good experience on everything from old wml-only phones to the iPhone. Although I wish site’s designer’s had applied a style=”max-width:100%; height:auto;”<\/a> attribute to that logo image to force Opera Mini to re-size it to fit.<\/p>\n The problem with the mobile site is the content. Has far as I could see there is nothing there but a few quiz’s and a bunch of “Top 5 This ” and “10 Best That” lists like “10 Best Places for Outdoorsy Types to Live<\/a>‘ or “5 Myths about Steve Jobs<\/a>“. How<\/em> Stuff Works<\/span>‘ stock in trade, the “How X Works” pieces, seem to be totally missing. I used mobile site’s search engine to look for OLED and “identity theft” and came up with nothing. I’ll admit I enjoyed reading some of the “Top 10…” pieces but what ever happened to “How Stuff Works” on m.howstuffworks.com<\/a>?<\/p>\n Filed in:<\/em> Wap Review Directory – Technology<\/a><\/p>\n Ratings:<\/em> Content Usability <\/span><\/p>\n Ready.mobi Score: <\/em>4 “Good”<\/a><\/p>\n Mobile Link:<\/em> m.howstuffworks.com<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" HowStuffWorks.com is a great site featuring thousands of articles that uses\u00a0 non-technical language, charts, diagrams and videos how all sorts of complex products, technologies and processes work. Typical articles have titles like “How X works” where “X” can be anything from “OLEDs” to “identity theft“. I recently discovered that How Stuff Works has a mobile site and immediately headed there to check it out. I have to say I was a little disappointed. There’s nothing wrong with the site’s design,it’s … Continue reading