New York Times owned About.com is a good web resource for finding human advice and practical tips on almost every topic. Whether you planning a trip to Brussels or need advice on painting your house or mowing grass in the backyard or finding mp3 on the internet, you are likely to find it on About.com.
But there are a couple of things which I don't like about about.com:
Problem 1: About.com has an amazing army of editors (called About.com Guides) who are the best in their respective fields. However, the problem comes when some About.com guide copies content without giving credit to the original resource. It then becomes very difficult or almost impossible to remove the copy-pasted page content from About.com. There's no email or contact form (or I can't find one) to complain about an About.com Guide.
Problem 2: A lot of articles link to stories and resources hosted on external webpages. While this is great for the site which is being linked by About.com as it will certainly boost the site traffic, About.com loads the external site in an two pane frame that has rotating ad banners on the top frame and the actual site in the bottom frame. ( see screenshot)
While there's an option that allows visitor to "Turn Off This Frame" to view the external site in full view, most people won't be able to read that since it's in a very tiny font.
This issue is not just with about.com but a lot of other sites like web directories do this to prevent loosing site visitors or make them click the ads by placing it in a very prominent location.
If you are the content owner and hate such kind of "virtual hijacks", just add the following Javascript snippet in the HEAD section of your HTML.
But there are a couple of things which I don't like about about.com:
Problem 1: About.com has an amazing army of editors (called About.com Guides) who are the best in their respective fields. However, the problem comes when some About.com guide copies content without giving credit to the original resource. It then becomes very difficult or almost impossible to remove the copy-pasted page content from About.com. There's no email or contact form (or I can't find one) to complain about an About.com Guide.
Problem 2: A lot of articles link to stories and resources hosted on external webpages. While this is great for the site which is being linked by About.com as it will certainly boost the site traffic, About.com loads the external site in an two pane frame that has rotating ad banners on the top frame and the actual site in the bottom frame. ( see screenshot)
While there's an option that allows visitor to "Turn Off This Frame" to view the external site in full view, most people won't be able to read that since it's in a very tiny font.
This issue is not just with about.com but a lot of other sites like web directories do this to prevent loosing site visitors or make them click the ads by placing it in a very prominent location.
If you are the content owner and hate such kind of "virtual hijacks", just add the following Javascript snippet in the HEAD section of your HTML.
<script language="JavaScript">This will always open your site in the full browser window and not inside a frame. If the linking site is trying to load your page inside a frame, the code will override that setting.
<!--
if (window != top) top.location.href = location.href;
// -->
</script>
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