Please evaluate some pages.

[micro]

Hello to all.

If you have the time please go to:
http://users.hol.gr/~micro/helpme.html
http://users.hol.gr/~micro/hintme.html
http://users.hol.gr/~micro/tipme.html
http://users.hol.gr/~micro/licenceme.html
http://users.hol.gr/~micro/spareme.html
and post your comments if any.

My updates tracking page is:
http://users.hol.gr/~micro/updateme.html

Top pages are:
http://users.hol.gr/~micro and
http://users.hol.gr/~micro/linux.html for linux

The first three pages refer to people new to Linux and/but willing to learn the command line.

If I can make my point in a better way, I would appreciate any suggestion.

My Linux learning pages are for the time being my way to contribute back to the community, so I take this task seriously.

Thanks.

[JThundley]

On the License me page, I suggest putting this part in a table so that the = signs are lined up:

Q: What's a Platform?

A: Think of a platform as the Operating System/Hardware combination:
Wintel = MS Windows on Intel processors.
GNU/Linux i386 = GNU/Linux on Intel processors.
NetBSD Alpha = Net BSD on Alpha processors.

Your font seems a little small, but maybe it's just my eyes and huge resolution.

Other than that, good stuff.

:)

[micro]

Thanks, I'll do that.

Well, about fonts:
I made the pages with Netscape Composer and in Netscape and Mozilla the font size is good and all paragraphs alligned.
But in Konqueror and sometimes in Internet Exploiter (when I test my site in occasional Internet Cafes) the font sizes and the allignments are presented incorrectly.

[JThundley]

Use valid HTML and valid CSS ;)

[j79zlr]

Originally posted by JThundley
Use valid HTML and valid CSS ;)

practice what you preach :p

[hard candy]

The pages look pretty good in IE6 SP2, on Win 2000. I like the text on a rough background, somehow it makes the text stand out more, easier to read. Translated into English without problems. Good job. Links all seem to work.
One thing though, where are all the women in bikinis lying on the beach on one those small islands? I personally think I would read a lot more. :)

[JThundley]

Hahaha, you got me there! My web site is a little on the sad side, but I'm making a new one that's compliant, honest!

[danimal1009]

Originally posted by JThundley
Your font seems a little small, but maybe it's just my eyes and huge resolution.

While I have firefox set with a minimum font size, and can't comment on the font size, I'd like to point out that those pages use a greek character coding, that may make fonts appear a little strange... I have my fonts set to antialiased ones, and when I went there, I saw the ugly un-anti-aliased font the firefox defaults to (for me anyway). Then I discovered that in firefox, you have to specify fonts seperately for each of the different character codiings. All that of course appies to firefox users... I don't know what browser you use, or how other browsers handle this.


micro, who are your english language page's target audience. I don't know how all the languages, and character codings work over there in Europe, but if those are intended for English speaking areas such as America, Canada, possibly the UK, then you might want to consider changing the character codings for your english version pages from greek to western. This caused some funky font behavior in my browser (over here in America). If you wanted to do that all you would have to do is change in the source (I don't know how Quanta does this)...

<meta http-equiv="Content-Type"
content="text/html; charset=ISO-8859-7">
to
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type"
content="text/html; charset=ISO-8859-1">

I'm not saying you have to do it, but that's my 2 cents.

[micro]

OOps, allthough I write in english, I didn't check the encoding.
Thanks danimal1009, I will look into it.

Is it possible to fix this in Netscape Composer? I will try and see.

[micro]

Well, I changed the encoding but I found that the appearence of the page was not what I wanted it to be.

How I see it anyway?
http://users.hol.gr/~micro/screenshot1.png
http://users.hol.gr/~micro/screenshot2.png

The first one is english with greek encoding
The second one is english with western encoding.

I like the first more than the second, at least considering the way it appears in Netscape.

[roamingnomad]

On some of your tables on the HelpMe page, it would be easier to read if the layout was more like this:

Header

intro - intro - intro - intro
intro - intro - intro
intro - intro - intro - intro

command | details and comments
command | details and comments
command | details and comments
command | details and comments

As it is now, I didn't know where to look for the commands themselves, at first!

[micro]

Do you refer to helpme alone or the relation between helpme and helpmedeteils?

I decided to use one detailed page with named anchors, because a detailed page for each command would definetly overload the structure of my pages.

Which commands other than the ones I describe would in your opinion interest a new user for starting to know and eventually administer his/her system?

[danimal1009]

Originally posted by micro
I like the first more than the second, at least considering the way it appears in Netscape.

If memory serves me correctly, the Netscape and Firefox font dialogs are the same, or at least very similar.

It seems as if your fonts are set up exactly the opposite of mine... You have nice fonts set for the greek charater encoding, but you have the not as good looking default fonts (in my opinion) set for the western encoding, while I had nice fonts set up for western but not for greek. I attached an image of what I see in firefox... The left side is the greek character thing and on the right is my western... (You may not agree with my choice of fonts, but thats what I like and use). Interestingly enough, the font(s) in your western that you don't like much, are the same ones in my greek. I bet if you check theyre serif, sans-serif, and monospace (They're the font name as well as the font type).

In any case, different browsers will display fonts differently, so usually at least one browser will fudge up the intended look...