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100% view / zoom distortion issue

casacom
posted this on July 16, 2012 22:54

I find it strange that websites built using the website builder can only be viewed at 100% or more yet the moonfruit website itself doesn't suffer this issue.

Also, when free websites suffer the distortion, the moonfruit logo and information tool i.e. report page etc are displayed correctly.

I am now in a position to upgrade 3 sites but would like to know if this is an issue that will ever be corrected. If not, then I will have to find a different web builder as I don't want to pay for a product that doesn't work.

 

Thanks.

 

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Richard
Moonfruit

Hello,

The Moonfruit site is not built using the site maker software because it wouldn't be able to store something as complex as the site building module. 

Your site is built in two layers, an HTML base and the Flash content area. If you zoom in, you do so on one or not the other. That is the nature of the software and isn't something that can be fixed.

Thanks,

Richard

July 17, 2012 16:53
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mplmpl

Big problem as always! There is no solution... People will catch onto this sooner rather than later. When newer laptops with wide screens are readily becoming available as standard then alot of people will be noticing the same issue that cant be resolved!!!

October 24, 2012 23:00
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Juli
Moonfruit

Hi,

The solution will come in the form of the HTML5 project. This will allow the browser zoom level to work with your site.

HTH

Juli

October 25, 2012 10:01
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mplmpl

Wow really?!

 

HTML5 will not solve this so please stop trying to give mislead information. The technology moonfruit uses does not allow your page to fit any size monitor.

 

Although WIX (another website builder) does automatically fit your webpage to any size monitor but WIX does not offer the features that moonfuit offer.

 

MY OPINION... I would rather my website fit any sized monitor because they look awful on wide screen laptops and bigger sized HD monitors! 

 

So you might want to consider them because moonfruit can not "fix" this issue which will surface to become a BIG problem when everyone catches on.

 

HTML5 will offer a better solution for TABLETS and SMART PHONES but I doubt will sort out this issue with the good old PC monitors and laptops which people still use!

October 25, 2012 22:18
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lotusleaf

... will surface to become a BIG problem when everyone catches on.

I'm still struggling to "catch on"!  There are many, many sites (non-Moonfruit) which neither fill the screen nor look right if the zoom isn't set correctly.  I've attached screenshots of a couple which I've come across this evening - the BBC and the Royal Horticultural Society.  One of the reasons why they may have decided not to fill the screen is because the eye is used to an A4 size/shape and you don't have to move your head from side to side as if you're watching a tennis match.  And with both these sites, I do what I always do when I land upon sites that don't render correctly - I simply alter the zoom using the command key +/-.    It's not rocket science, and if high-profile sites like these (and many others) don't think it's a problem, what am I missing???

October 26, 2012 01:09
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lotusleaf

PS.  Another couple of examples that I've just come across where the zoom affects the type:  one of the most popular money-advice sites, MoneySavingExpert, and a popular fundraising site, easy-fundraising - I've attached screenshots showing what I saw when I landed on the site, and again it takes a fraction of a second to click command +/-, I don't even think about it.

I've also come across a couple of sites where the type is spread across the screen and it looks vile.  Anybody with even a modicum of graphic design knowledge would know that these lines are way too long to easily read, and there are huge white gaps at the right hand side.  Both these sites would look tons better if they were designed as A4 instead of filling the screen.  I'm attached a screenshot of the Information Commissioner's site and also a site called Easysearch.

Can somebody please tell me what I'm missing because I just don't get it!

October 26, 2012 01:48
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mplmpl

LOTUSLEAF!

 

Please stop trying to justify everything by distracting from the issue here. YOU comment everywhere that I comment! YOU like posting screenshots!

 

Hope you all will find your own ways of dealing with this problem in moonfruit.

 

Have a look at WIX websites and see if they suffer from this PROBLEM!

 

LOTUSLEAF! Stop following me. You are getting annoying now.

October 26, 2012 10:03
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Juli
Moonfruit

Hi lizscott,

The HTML5 will resolve the zoom function. The scale to fit will not be changed with this release, as it something entirely different. As lotusleaf has pointed out not all sites have this function and unfortunately we have no plans to release this.

Regards,

Juli

October 26, 2012 10:10
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lotusleaf

Please don't scream at me, lizscott, it's very rude and quite unnecessary.

If I've posted after you, it's either because I've tried to offer a helpful suggestion - which if I remember correctly, you asked for in a previous thread recently - or it's to try and understand what problem I'm missing.  I will continue to offer suggestions which I believe to be helpful, which may include screenshots, and if there is something I don't understand about moonfruit sites, I will continue to try and find out what it is.  You cannot affect what I do, you can only affect how you react to it.

I've previously looked at WIX and as I said on the other thread about this issue, what you gain in one aspect of a program, you lose in another.  WIX and other sites may offer this functionality, but there are an awful lot of features which they don't offer and which moonfruit do.  It's a case of you pays your money and you takes your choice.

Unfortunately your post to me did nothing to help me to understand why this problem is such as issue so I will continue trying to find out.

October 26, 2012 10:39
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makeup192

I've been look through the help pages for a solution to this but it seems there isn't one. Imagine my embarrassment when showing one of my websites to a friend on her laptop yesterday (her browser view was set to 125%). Hardly a selling point to someone who was looking to build a website herself. Understandably, it was an automatic deal breaker. After that she wasn't interested in using Moonfruit.

Not everyone can view websites at 100% due to sight problems etc.  Think this is something that needs rectifying and fast as it seems through one click of a button a website can go from looking  extremely stunning to just plain unprofessional.

Due to this problem on Moonfruit, I am now in the process of looking elsewhere. Visitors can land on a website at any page - I shouldn't have to put a note on each page of my website asking visitors to reset their view mode to 100%.

If anyone has discovered a way of getting around this, please let me know. Thanks.

January 18, 2013 11:50
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Antoine
Moonfruit

Hi,

Thanks for your comments. As most of you may know, our Development Team has been very busy in the last year working on the new version of the software (version 6) which will allow you to publish sites in HTML5 instead of Flash.

It might be worth pointing out that whilst zooming on a site on v5 is not possible, this will no longer be an issue on v6. For more information about what sort of features are/will be included in this new version, please keep an eye on the Blog - there's already been a couple of posts there with some details.

HTH

Antoine 

January 19, 2013 10:07