Nirvana In Nirvana

 

Review

Site - Burnt Out
Reviewer - Robert Brooks
Date - Jan. 15, 1999

Introduction

Nirvana sites have become much more than just lyrics and tabs.  They have become so much more. Whether that is good or not is under question.  These days, one site can not survive without content let alone.  A site must have decent graphics and originality to it.

Graphics

The graphics on this site is excellent in terms of quality, a professional look, and neatness.  There is a major difference between the Internet Explorer and Netscape look on this site.  If you use Netscape, I would have to say that this site would be horrible to visit.  In Internet Explorer, you can move your cursor of a hyperlink, and the yellow text would highlight to red.  Also, in the welcoming page, you have a Java platform that you can work with.   This is why it is strongly recommended you use Internet Explorer with this site.  You can click on something that would, at that frame, show you more things, if possible.  Netscape is a completely different story.  If you clicked on something, and it would have led to something different like it would have in IE, the frame would change to that section.  Now, it is not all that bad.  In Netscape, it acts like any other frames page.  With IE, it is a lot more convinent to visit, navigate, and look at.  In Internet Explorer, you can tell if it will change because the text is white rather than the regular yellow that is in the site.  Keep in mind you can only access one area at a time using IE.

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The page

In the page there are several sections, they are:

  • Kurt - Biography, Timeline, Art, and Photo Gallery, Articles and Interviews, and Remembrance.

  • Nirvana - Members, Timeline, and Articles/Interviews.

  • Songs - Discography, Lyrics, Midi's, and Tabs.

  • Site - Welcome, View/Sign Guestbook, Links, Disclaimer, Webmaster.

Kurt

  • Biography - an original biography about the life and times of Kurt, by Mick Ronson.

  • Timeline - a simple timeline about Kurt.

  • Art - consisting of drawings or pictures that Kurt has done.

  • Pictures - A totol of 71 pictures in 4 pages.  Most are familiar, some are not so familiar.

  • Articles/Interviews - Several types here.  First there are eleven interviews with Kurt.  After that are six professional articles, in addition to the Tom Grant Murder Theory Report.   Furthermore, there is a miscellaneous section containg a chat transcript, about Kurt's favorite film and another one for his equipment.

Nirvana

  • Members - a little background information on the band; a nice chart that gives a graphical description.

  • Timeline - same timeline you would fine pretty much everywhere else.  Some more specific dates are included.

Songs

  • Discography - containing information about albums, singles, compiliations, project, videos, books, and bootlegs.

  • Lyrics - in their respective albums and areas.  Basically it is an album-a-page deal.  Clicking on a song will cause you to anchor to that song.  Note that the albums are not in order.   The section also includes rare songs.

  • Midi files - a lot of files for those Midi fans out there. However it comes from another page.

Site

This section contains a link back to the main page, a guestbook, a disclaimer and information about the webmaster.

Connection

Internet Explorer - 12 seconds
Netscape Navigator - 5 seconds

This was for the frames page, not the first page you see when you go to the url.  Although Internet Explorer is the recommended browser graphically, Netscape Navigator had a much easier time loading the page.  The page also recommends a monitor resolution of 1024x768, I had no problems using 800x600.

The connection test was done on a 56k Winmodem connected at 38.6 bps.  Remember download times will vary depending on your modem speed, browser, server of the page, telephone line activity, and your internet service provide (ISP).

Conclusion

A very good page.  If your a Netscape user, the page will work just fine.  But considering how good it work with Internet Explorer, you may feel a little left out in some regards.  However you still get the same information, which is a lot.  There is a lot of original as well as used content on this site.  If your an Internet Explorer fan and you want to see a good looking site, this is a good one.

Burnt Out is owned by Mat Grove.

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