As someone that is always curious as a cat, I went nuts when I decided to visit this site and see what it was all about. It has so much wonderful content, that I am not sure I am going to be able to fit it all in one review. That is how big this site is.
But one thing is for sure, they appear to care about what people think of their information. You are asked to rate each article as you read them. They also offer a search engine of their site as well as of the Web, so if you are looking for something particular, this is especially helpful.
First Impressions
Well, the above paragraph pretty much clues you in that I found the site absolutely glorious. Not only for me, but also for my kids. I am a home school teacher, and this site even offers free copies of its magazine FREE each month for students.
Aside from the aforementioned thrill of it having so much content that appears to be useful and interesting, it also loaded very quickly and appears to be updated on a daily basis, so some of the things I speak about in this review, may not still be there if you go another day. For this reason, I will try to pretty much keep it simple and let you visit the site if you wish for more details. But please keep in mind, that this is what was there the day I visited the site for this review, more or less may be there on other days.
Categories
Today at How Stuff Works is the first section my eyes were drawn to when the page loaded. This particular day it was telling How Sonic Cruisers Will Work, How Human Reproduction Works, Virtual Memory, What do you think?, I’ve been Flashed and a survey: Get A Second Opinion.
First Visit contained links to a welcome page, Top 40, Amazing Animation Tour, The Big List as well as a place where you can join the site and receive newsletters.
Stuffatorium is the place you can find cool, funky, original and high tech products.
Stuff Of The Day has the links to the Question of the day, Huge Question Archive, Gadget of the Day, Gadget Archive, Cool Place Database, Link Archive and the Book Archive.
Cool Stuff has links to Amazing Animation Tour, How Stuff Works, Factory Tours, Marshall on the Air, HowStuffWorks TV, Funny Stories, how HowStuffWorks works, How Stuff Will Work, Great How to Articles, Huge Experiment Database and Super Useful Links
Survey question for the day was, What kind of camera do you use?
Featured Articles that were listed on the start page was How Animation Works, How Lie Detectors Work, How Diamonds Work, How Military Pain Beams Will Work, How Bowling Pin Setters Work, How Bigfoot Might Work, How encryption Works, How Computer Viruses Work, How Nicotine Works, How IP Telephony Works, The Forums, How lock Picking Works, How Car Engines Work and How Dieting Works .
Super Categories include Computers and Internet, Engines and Automobiles, Electronics and Telecom, Science and Technology, Aviation and Transport, Body and Health, Living and Entertainment, Around the house, Machines and Cool
In Closing
I felt the sight was a wonderful place to pick up knowledge that otherwise may be to technical for some to grasp, here it is made simple and easy to understand. One other aspect of the site is that you can join and earn points while you are on the site. So you not only get knowledge, but points as well. You can register with the site, earn the points and be entered in the giveaways that they have every two weeks. For every point entered, up to 20 per day, you are entered in the sweepstake that many times. Then at the end of the two week period, they do a random drawing to find the winner.
So not only do you have a wonderful chance to learn something new, you also have a chance to win things like a PDA or Playstation.