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Make the site resize to fit any monitor
flysfooty
suggested this on May 28, 2011 17:56
Since most monitors are becoming widescreen it would be a good idea to put inplace software that automatically resizes the site to fit the size of the monitor its being viewed on like most web pages do, Instead of having the set paramaters which are currently used.
I designed my site on a 15.6" widescreen laptop and thought it looked great untill i viewed it on my 22" widescreen pc monitor and the result looks not so great.
The huge margins down either side make the site have an unprofessional look which could easily be eliminated by having the software in place to automatically resize the website to any monitor size thats viewing the site.
I hope you can look into this problem and come up with a fix sometime in the future.
Thanks Flysfooty..
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I am having the same problem indeed; I have finished editing my website yet but I had a friend looking at it today and he told me that the website' size was not fitting his screen. That is a real issue because I want it to be perfect when it goes live. If our dear Moonfruit Team could have a look at that soon, it would make the day of a lot of Moonfruit users.
Thank you in advance,
Cheers,
Lu
I haven't finished editing it, I was trying to say, sorry...
I totally agree, I created my site on a 23" HD monitor and when viewing it on a regular laptop the site is much to big. I used wix previously to moonfruit and they do have a fit to width option however the reason I came to moonfruit was that the sites created looked much more professional and like html. Please sort this out MF as its the main reason I'm holding back from buying a year subscription.
Also a tip for the OP wanting there site to fit a larger monitor, set your width and hight to 1920x1080 thats HD resolution and should fit your widescreen pretty well if its to big try 1280x720 but again you would then have the same problem I'm having, the site looking to big on a lower resolution monitor.
does anyone have a solution?? Mine too
does anyone have a solution?? Mine too
Hi,
I'm afraid this simply isn't possible at the moment - Flash does not support a reliable method of resizing and re-arranging multiple objects, so we can't offer it in the software - sorry about this.
If the feature becomes available in a future version of Flash, we will almost certainly incorporate it.
HTH,
Gary
Hi
Have you tried re-sizing your jpeg at a larger finished size ie, in Photoshop but at the same resolution?
any improvements on this yet??
Hi,
I'm afraid not - the Flash situation hasn't changed, but there may be a chance that we can offer it with the HTML 5 display that is coming later this year.
HTH,
Gary
Same problem - my site, when viewed on a smaller monitor, looks awful. It is way to big for the screen and you cannot see large portions of my webpages. If resizing isn't possible, is it possible to have scroll bars on the website so that visitors can scroll to see the parts of the site that won't fit on the page?
Thanks, Tom.
Hi Tom,
If the site is too large to fit in any given browser window, the browser should generate scrollbars automatically.
HTH,
Gary
Is there any solution yet? My website looks terrible and I am receiving many negative feedback from my customers! Looks very very very unprofessional.
I would have not renewed my annual payment if I had know about this issue. Gutted! I have message the tech support but they are useless "Awaiting assignment to a help desk operator" is what I get for the last three days.
anyone here?
Hi,
I'm sorry that you haven't received a reply to your ticket yet - we do have a large number in the queue at the moment, but the number is reducing all the time, so response times are actually improving.
Having read through your ticket, I'm not sure your problem is actually the same as what has been discussed in this thread - it would help Support greatly if you could send us a screenshot of how your site appears.
Thanks,
Gary
The inability of automatically resizing the site to fit the size of the monitor, is HUGE disadvantage ! If You not pay attention of this problem, Gary - soon you will start to lose.
Moonfuit *is* paying attention to it. As Gary said above, it simply isn't possible with Flash sites to resize the site to fit all monitors - that's a facet of Flash that moonfruit can't do anything about. But also as Gary said above, HTML5 *may* solve the problem and that will be coming later this year, presumably after it's been sufficiently tested and not before!
It's nice to hear that ! Good luck !
It IS possible with flash sites as I've stated in my older post Wix have this feature and they are flash based so saying it isn't is just fobbing us of with phony excuses. This is a huge flaw and makes using moonfruit for a professional website pointless. here is a link to a simple Wix website I made to prove it is possible with flash: http://www.scottbrannan.co.uk/
I've tried zooming your site on Chrome - the page flashes very briefly and then jumps back to its original size. On Firefox, when I try to zoom, it resizes a pixel at a time until I get a very slightly wider border, and that's it. Is this what's supposed to happen?
I think you have misinterpreted this thread, we don't care about being able to zoom in and out and have the page resize, we want it to load already fitted to any monitor size which the wix site does. I created it on a 23" wide screen but if I view it on a 17" laptop it still looks the same and fits the screen where as with moonfruit it stays at the larger size if I view it on a smaller screen.
Hi dragel,
I see what you're getting at - when I change the size of my browser window, the entire Flash object gets zoomed in or out to match.
This is possible because Wix have chosen to go down a different path with the way their sites are published. When you generate a Flash object, for example, you have to declare the width and height - Wix will almost certainly have this set as '100%'. This is possible because they keep all pages at the same size. Conversely, because we allow pages of differing length, we cannot declare the size in the same way.
However, it's worth bearing in mind that most 'full screen' websites don't behave in the same way as the Wix site either - although it is possible to use HTML and CSS to set certain elements to 100% width and height, it isn't possible for everything, so most sites simply increase the size of containers, and reflow text and images to fit. The results aren't always what the designer intended.
HTH,
Gary
I have received great feedback from many people on my new website (pennymavrikis.com) and want to thank you for moonfruit offering a free version. One person shared with me a viewing problem she only sees when looking at my site when running Windows Ultimate with IE9 Apparently it looks fine in Chrome and in Mozilla (running windows Ultimate I assume). As an FYI- I created my website using Windows 7 Ultimate on a 17" Dell Studio laptop). Any suggestions on what I can do so others don't see my site this way in case they are running IE9 would be appreciated. Attached is a screenshot showing the right hand side of the site being cut off. Thanks in advance!
Hi,
It looks like Internet Explorer's zoom control is set to something other than 100% - unfortunately, this will cause the problem you see there. If they set it back to 100%, your site will displayed correctly.
HTH,
Gary