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Improve viewer layout to make it easier to navigate

I prefer the page layout used by Gale News Vault. It makes it much easier to scroll through a news article. The default window in BNA is too small, and changing to full page view makes it very difficult to navigate the page.

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  • J commented  ·   ·  Report

    Planned in 2015? It is now 8 years later and the layout is still awfully restrictive.

  • Geri Walton commented  ·   ·  Report

    You can't even see articles. You have to download everything. It's impossible to use this anymore. Can't figure out why you would change something that was working.

  • [Deleted User] commented  ·   ·  Report

    I believe the navigation issues with the viewer are primarily in the Chrome browser. When I use Internet Explorer, the scroll bar and other navigation tools are shown. Please update this to work in all modern browsers, including Chrome.

  • Liz Dearden commented  ·   ·  Report

    I can't even find how to scroll at all. Unless the section you want is in the middle of the page I can't even find it if I zoom in or out.

  • Anonymous commented  ·   ·  Report

    dreadful and very frustrating trying to look with this new layout!!

  • Anonymous commented  ·   ·  Report

    Ditto it is impossible. I adored this web site but not any more

  • Mary Miller commented  ·   ·  Report

    I CANNOT USE THIS LAYOUT FOR MY RESEARCH- IT IS IMPOSSIBLE. WHY CHANGE SOMETHING THAT IS WORKING WELL.

  • Robert Cutts commented  ·   ·  Report

    I almost always search by date, earliest first, in advanced search. When I try to set date it's latest first by default and the screen looms up so I have to find the date setting again to make it earliest first. And I still can't make the view work so I'm giving up using the system until you sort it out. YOU ARE MAKING MY RESEARCH MUCH MORE DIFFICULT.

  • Anonymous commented  ·   ·  Report

    Just spent half an hour trying to look at one article! Please go back to old layout

  • Robert Cutts commented  ·   ·  Report

    The layout has become more difficult. Each item takes more vertical space and so more scrolling is needed. Furthermore, when I click on view, nothing happens. At present the system is of no use.

  • Anonymous commented  ·   ·  Report

    I use the Australian National library Trove site. It is very easy to view an article on this. Here there are no scroll bar and Im finding it difficult to move around the page. I zoom in and the part of the article I want to read disappears.

  • Anonymous commented  ·   ·  Report

    totally frustrated - viewer is not working properly

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