[Pro] Any way to re-size (or re-scale) and entire site?

I am partway into building a site at 1280 x 1024 and have decided it looks better at smaller size, say about 1000 wide. Any way to scale the entire site down without completely starting over? Thanks so much for any input!


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Any way to scale the entire site down without completely starting over?

Depends what FW version?

If 7 then you can change your default page size but you will still need to tweak the pages.

Any lesser version and its donkey work - unfortunately there is no magic action.

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Thanks, David. It is 7, but after changing page size, I will still have to manually scale and re-align every single item on each page individually. I can see no way around that. I guess there is just no magic fix for this one.


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after changing page size, I will still have to manually scale and re-align every single item on each page individually

I am afraid so.

If you are starting with an inline construction it does become a great deal easier as resizing a parent can often be enough.

Your alternative option is to add a 1000px breakpoint in addition to your default 1280.

Probably no less work though.

D


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You can do a very rough form of resizing using the transform CSS attribute, applied to the #PageDiv element. Since all other elements in a Freeway page descend from this parent, transforming it by a number of percent will cause everything on the page to resize. This is a very large and heavy hammer to wield, frankly, but it will do the sort of one-stop-change you are looking for. See what happens when you paste this into the Page / HTML Markup (before ) editor:

<style type=“text/css”>
#PageDiv {
	-webkit-transform: scale(0.9);
	-moz-transform: scale(0.9);
	transform: scale(0.9);
}
</style>

Now all by itself, this will move everything around the center of the page, so the page will pull away from the top of the browser and the sides. Depending on your layout and background styling, this may have the effect of breaking your page visually. If you look into this attribute further, I believe you will find a way to “anchor” the transform to one or another cardinal point, but I haven’t done that digging for you. Just a quick idea for you to explore and report back to us.

Walter

On Oct 23, 2014, at 3:05 AM, DeltaDave email@hidden wrote:

after changing page size, I will still have to manually scale and re-align every single item on each page individually

I am afraid so.

If you are starting with an inline construction it does become a great deal easier as resizing a parent can often be enough.

Your alternative option is to add a 1000px breakpoint in addition to your default 1280.

Probably no less work though.

D


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