iPad issue in portrait mode

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Hi everyone,
I built up a simple static html website (please see the link attached) and I encountered an issue which I cannot figure out how to solve it.

Some pages do not contain a lot of stuff. These pages, naturally shorter than the rest, when displayed on an iPad in portrait mode, do not fit the screen, on the contrary, they are somehow zoomed in. In landscape mode they look ok, the pages fit the screen. I can only assume that the issue is present on iPhone as well, but I don’t own one so I might be wrong. However, on android everything looks as it should, in both modes portrait and landscape.

Has anyone else had this issue? Any advice?
Thank you!

P.S. This is my first website built using FW and probably the answer is simple, so please don’t be too harsh if this is the case :slight_smile:

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well - am not sure on this, but what I would try first is to set the height for mobile to none (which is currently set to device-height).

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Thomas

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Hi Thomas,

Thank you very much for pointing me in the right direction.
Setting the height to none didn’t make a difference, but in the same menu I set the viewport width to the same width as my page and it looks ok now. I take this opportunity to thank you for your lessons. In fact I built this website having FW open on one monitor and your podcasts on other :).

Kind regards,
Petre Nicolescu.

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Hi Petre,

sounds good but after examining your code a bit more detailed, I recognized a couple of things that I can’t explain myself such as the massive amount of inline-styles and some redundant (or not) styles in the footer. Is it me really, instructing this in my screencasts? If yes - I need to fix this immediately - but I can’t remember honestly.

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Thomas

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Hi Thomas,
I’ve just started using FW, and only watched the first 5 lessons or so from the Box Model.
Having a DTP background, I’m used to applying styles like I usually do in InDesign. “I’m used to…” should actually be read as “the only way I know” (i.e. I have defined a bunch of styles and applied them from the inspector pallete like this: select text–> apply style, and so on).

I also noticed the inline-styles in the code, but I thought that it’s just the way FW works. If you have a screencast about this matter, I would really appreciate a link, or maybe a screencast number. Please don’t mind me, I find your podcasts somehow difficult to browse, but extremely valuable nevertheless.

Kind regards,
Petre

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Hi Petre,

I see so let me explain a couple of things:

  1. The mess on my page

I totally agree with this and all is more than confusing - apologize. Sometimes things grow unnatural :frowning:

I’m currently working on a new platform to fix all this. The bad news is that I can’t tell you the point of start.

The good news: You (and all the rest of my silver and premium subscribers no matter if they even expired) will be part of this without any new subscription. I’ll move you there as far as I’m ready and all you have to do there is “getting a new password” cause passwords can’t be moved (sensitive files protecting your privacy).

Your subscription will re-start from this initial time - so another on-plus for any kind of circumstances.

  1. The Inline-Styles

Honestly I can’t explain without examining the original file - but version 6 is off any possibilities to apply them automatically back inline as far as I know. Maybe actions are doing this but as I said - not to find out without the original file.

  1. The way that I recommend to do text-styling

I started a brand-new series but am interrupted due the above written reason, but there is as well one (very boring and way too long episode) in the FWP 5.5 version called “playing with styles”.

Since doing styles more structured, I even started to set the styles in InDesign as well (even with the same naming as in web (paragraph, heading … :slight_smile: - and it saved me so much time.

So all I can do for now is beging for patience and share some links:

The new platform:

The 'ol and boring screencast:

http://kimmich-dm.de/wordpress/?p=489

The new (but not completed):

http://kimmich-dm.de/wordpress/?p=931

Under all screencasts, there is the prev/next button which should support you through the series in chronologic order.

Hope this helps you out.

Cheers

Thomas

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Thank you very much Thomas.
In my defence, I built up the site in all four languages in less than 2 days. For this reason I must salute you, your tutorials and the Freeway team :slight_smile: My client was in the middle of an exhibition, having his website address advertised on all promoting materials, but having no website watsoever, due to a poor collaboration with some design agency.

Considering this extremely tight deadline, the cleanliness of the code became secondary. I really didn’t have time to delve into your screencasts, but I can tell that you are a good teacher :slight_smile:

I didn’t mean to criticize anything about the structure of your website. For me, the information is much more important. I will have a look on the links you provided
Thank you one more time.

Petre.

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