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Page: Nirvana:
Even In His Youth
Reviewer: Robert Brooks
Date: Jan. 21, 1999
Introduction
Every waterfall begins with a first drop. Every Nirvana pages, most of them, have a similar story. The first drop is rather easy. All you need to do is get a HTML editor of some sort, find a server (in most cases a free one), and your pretty much set. A lot of pages are very devoted to what it stands for. Nevertheless after a while some people call it quits.
Graphics
The page is rather simplistic. As I have mentioned before, there is absolutely nothing wrong with having a simple page with a few graphics here and there. The page has you click on a Smiley face to enter into its secondary page.
There is no difference between Netscape and Internet Explorer concerning the interface look for the page. You can hardly notice a difference. There are frames on the page, Internet Explorer and Netscape does a nice job keeping it together. The only main difference I found was that in the left-hand column, which has a frame, the images, each on in Netscape seems to be a little poor in quality as compared to Internet Explorer, but again, there is no major consequence.
Sounds
A thing that many sites have these days in sounds. There are many varities of formats. This site has established its sounds section on MP3 formatted files. These all come from the Nirvana Sounds Network, but permission was granted. It offers a nice list of songs, not too long, but not too short either. The length of the files is unavaliable, but I presume that they could be full-length or no more than a minute. Hence the size of the file was not included.
Pictures
There are five (5) pages of pictures. Most them are from The Internet Nirvana Fanclub page. One of the things I did like about this picture gallery was that there were no ads by it and the fact that it downloaded rather quickly.
Movies
At the time of the review, there were only six (6) movies that this site had. Since the movie files are linked from MTV's website, they will probably be thirty (30) seconds.
Interviews
At the time of the review, there were only two (2) interviews that the site had. However the Nevermind interview section, from the looks of it, are quotes from the interview, or other interviews. The second article is about Kurt's suicide.
Fan's Art
Well, since this page is just getting started, there are no fan's arts available. Hopefully there will be more to come.
New Album
Most of the information found here is the same information you can find at INFC. My suggestion would to have the webmaster add his opinions.
Suicide/Murder Theory
Again, not one of my favorite sections to talk about or even read. However this page strictly believes that Kurt was murdered, and there are some columntaries, including Tom Grant's Investigation, about the whole matter. You can find the webmaster's opinion, as well as Chris White's opinion.
Chat
There is a chat room in this page. It is Java based, and like most Java applications, it does take a little time to load up.
Lyrics
Nothing new here, but you can find the lyrics for all of the albums. If you click on an album, the lyrics should load up fairly quick because it is just text that is contained in that section.
Guitar/Bass tabs and FAQs
In both sections, which is not divided up by albums, is just straight in your face. You click on Guitar tabs, for example, and you get all of the songs (or most there of), and the same applies to the bass tabs. In addition, the page has the Nirvana FAQ. Although the Story is not considered a FAQ, it does list some information. It is not very neat, but hopefully it will be soon enough. The paragraphs are not in its proper order.
Bootlegs/Links/Author
You can trade bootlegs with the webmaster of the page. Take a look at the list of his wants and what he can give you. In its destinated area, you can view some of the links which mostly consist of banners; finally, you can view information about the webmaster.
Connection
About the test:
Both browsers were closed during the test.
Internet Explorer was opened and tested, Netscape was tested after.
Address for the main page, or page that consists of contents, or the page that was viewed in the screenshot was pasted in the testing browser.
Time was ended when the icon in the top right hand corner stopped.
Internet Explorer: 39 seconds
Netscape Navigator: 35 secondsLooks like Netscape Navigator had a slight edge over Internet Explorer in this case. It probably has to do with the frames.
The connection test was done on a 56k Winmodem connected at 36,000 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). This will not guarantee that the page will download at the same rate on your computer as it does mine, this is just an estimate.
Conclusion
I was not expecting too much out of this page, mainly because it is only a few days old. However if it was a year old, then I would have been dissapointed in it. I hope that it will continue to add content, specifically original content.
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