Navigation View zooming problem

[FoulFoot]

There's a problem I've been having with the Navigation View zoom feature.
I've had this problem at least since FP 2000 (I've also used FP 2002, and am
currently using FP 2003... the problem has remained).

I have a very large web site -- around 2,000 individual pages. All of these
pages are linked up in the navigation view, so as you can imagine, it's quite
a christmas tree, graphically.

The "normal" view (for me, at least) is 75%. This lets you view the title
of each of the pages, within their graphic. I can zoom *out* normally --
50%, 25%, etc. However, each of these successive zoomed-out views does not
have any text on the graphics, just blank white boxes (I assume that the
boxes are too small for text). FP will not zoom *in* any greater than 75% --
100%, 150%, etc views are identical to the 75% view.

Here's the problem. I'm at a point now where the height of the navigation
structure has become so great that Frontpage is forcing the zoom out to
50%... and upon doing so, all the text disappears because the boxes are too
small. It will not allow me to zoom in any greater than 50%.

As a temporary fix, I've jerry-rigged the navigation structure to reduce the
overall height (using blank, temporary pages to extend the width of the
structure, instead). I am assuming that this is a limitation of FrontPage
which no one has noticed before -- there probably aren't too many web sites
that have so many pages stacked up like I do.

So... more than a question (though any comments are welcome), this is a more
of a nudge to the developers to take a look at this feature for future
versions or a patch.

Regards,

Scott

 

[Stefan B Rusynko]

With a web that size consider breaking it up into subwebs




| There's a problem I've been having with the Navigation View zoom feature.
| I've had this problem at least since FP 2000 (I've also used FP 2002, and am
| currently using FP 2003... the problem has remained).
|
| I have a very large web site -- around 2,000 individual pages. All of these
| pages are linked up in the navigation view, so as you can imagine, it's quite
| a christmas tree, graphically.
|
| The "normal" view (for me, at least) is 75%. This lets you view the title
| of each of the pages, within their graphic. I can zoom *out* normally --
| 50%, 25%, etc. However, each of these successive zoomed-out views does not
| have any text on the graphics, just blank white boxes (I assume that the
| boxes are too small for text). FP will not zoom *in* any greater than 75% --
| 100%, 150%, etc views are identical to the 75% view.
|
| Here's the problem. I'm at a point now where the height of the navigation
| structure has become so great that Frontpage is forcing the zoom out to
| 50%... and upon doing so, all the text disappears because the boxes are too
| small. It will not allow me to zoom in any greater than 50%.
|
| As a temporary fix, I've jerry-rigged the navigation structure to reduce the
| overall height (using blank, temporary pages to extend the width of the
| structure, instead). I am assuming that this is a limitation of FrontPage
| which no one has noticed before -- there probably aren't too many web sites
| that have so many pages stacked up like I do.
|
| So... more than a question (though any comments are welcome), this is a more
| of a nudge to the developers to take a look at this feature for future
| versions or a patch.
|
| Regards,
|
| Scott
|
|

 

[FoulFoot]

With a web that size consider breaking it up into subwebs.

I'll look into that -- thanks!