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[kojay]

How do I fix large columns?

[napy8gen]

Check out my vb3 responsive style

[kojay]

Check out my vb3 responsive styleI like my style better.

[Mark.B]

vBulletin 3 is not a responsive style, so there isn't anything you can realistically do make it 'fit' on mobile devices. You would need a new responsive style.

The vB3 style was written in 2003 when nobody was using mobile devices to look at websites.

[kojay]

vBulletin 3 is not a responsive style, so there isn't anything you can realistically do make it 'fit' on mobile devices. You would need a new responsive style.

The vB3 style was written in 2003 when nobody was using mobile devices to look at websites.And what is the difference between an adaptive style and a responsive one? Is it really impossible to add code to make it adaptive?

[Mark.B]

And what is the difference between an adaptive style and a responsive one? Is it really impossible to add code to make it adaptive?
It would need substantially rewriting. It really isn't that simple.

It would need a completely new style.

If it was that easy, everyone would have done it by now.

There are several responsive styles available from third parties and htese can subsequently be customised in the normal way.

[kojay]

It would need substantially rewriting. It really isn't that simple.

It would need a completely new style.

If it was that easy, everyone would have done it by now.

There are several responsive styles available from third parties and htese can subsequently be customised in the normal way.I've dug deeper and can tell you where to look for the problem. This is related to the navbar. I would like to keep the standard style.

[Mark.B]

I've dug deeper and can tell you where to look for the problem. This is related to the navbar. I would like to keep the standard style.
As above, the vBulletin 3 style is not a responsive style. It was written some years before viewing websites on mobile devices was even a 'thing'.

You will need to rewrite the style or at least substaintial parts of it parts of it using Responsive Media Queries (https://www.w3schools.com/css/css_rwd_mediaqueries.asp)

You also need to be, for the most part, removing the tables that make up much of the vB3 design and replace them with divs, as tables don't generally work well in responsive designs.

None of this is a trivial task and requires knowledge of CSS, html and vBulletin code.

The alternative is to obtain a third party responsive style and customise that to match the look and feel of your existing style, which would be the easier option in my view. The essence of many styles is the colours and fonts and those are quite easy to change.

[kojay]

As above, the vBulletin 3 style is not a responsive style. It was written some years before viewing websites on mobile devices was even a 'thing'.

You will need to rewrite the style or at least substaintial parts of it parts of it using Responsive Media Queries (https://www.w3schools.com/css/css_rwd_mediaqueries.asp)

You also need to be, for the most part, removing the tables that make up much of the vB3 design and replace them with divs, as tables don't generally work well in responsive designs.

None of this is a trivial task and requires knowledge of CSS, html and vBulletin code.

The alternative is to obtain a third party responsive style and customise that to match the look and feel of your existing style, which would be the easier option in my view. The essence of many styles is the colours and fonts and those are quite easy to change.I don't like the responsive style of a third party. Since it still needs to be Russified, which is a difficult task.

[In Omnibus]

vBulletin 3 was originally coded 16 years ago when there weren't even such things as % or rem or em units used in styling. It was coded using transitional HTML 4.0 and CSS 2.0, both of which are years deprecated. Most of the "responsive" styles you will find are not responsive styles at all but rather hack attempts at making a fixed width style flex.

Mark's assessment is correct. You will need to write a style from the !DOCTYPE to the closing HTML tag if you want it to function like modern responsive themes. In order to make any existing theme function properly you would have to rewrite it to use HTML 5 and CSS 3 anyway.

[kojay]

Mark's assessment is correct. You will need to write a style from the !DOCTYPE to the closing HTML tag if you want it to function like modern responsive themes. In order to make any existing theme function properly you would have to rewrite it to use HTML 5 and CSS 3 anyway.I don't know much about programming. I don't think I can do it. And what napy8gen offers is not the same, and costs $60. How many hours you need to spend to change the style.

[Mark.B]

I don't know much about programming. I don't think I can do it. And what napy8gen offers is not the same, and costs $60. How many hours you need to spend to change the style.
Your only option realistically is to pay someone to write a custom responsive style for you.

[kojay]

Your only option realistically is to pay someone to write a custom responsive style for you.
Would you be able to do that?

[Hostboard]

Would you be able to do that?

Contact iA1 (https://vbulletin.org/forum/member.php?u=551412)
He fully converted my theme and it passes ALL the Friendly Mobile Tests.

https://search.google.com/test/mobile-friendly

[kojay]

Contact iA1 (https://vbulletin.org/forum/member.php?u=551412)
He fully converted my theme and it passes ALL the Friendly Mobile Tests.

https://search.google.com/test/mobile-friendlyThanks. По времени это много заняло. I made a mistake, I'm sorry.

[lange]

Personally I'm happy with the style of napy8gen. I would say that his style is responsible enough to entice visitors to log in with their desktop PC. His style does the job by hiding certain parts for the mobile. This hiding suits my needs because it allowed me to totally personalize the non-mobile side.

[Dr.CustUmz]

When youre questioning the 60$ range, something along the lines of my site would be in the 10s of thousands. (with over 80 custom made plugins, 143 completely re written templates (so far) and almost a year (so far) worth of work.

Custom themes can cost a pretty penny, depending on what you are after. There is no "actual price" you could pay 250 - 100,000 or more

It seems pre made options may be what you are looking for. And as said SultanThemes are the only real option for now ;)

I do a lot of custom work that is not to be re released, but I will be making certain things to sell to the mass, like the theme below, started way back in 2015 that is a simplistic mobile style based on the default theme that will be available soon (i will be updating it once get some free time) and I have not thought of a price point yet.

[lange]

I looked at the style on your site. There is certainly a lot of work behind your style. Unlike the responsive style of Sultanthemes, it is a style without tables with a lot of nested style sheets as in vB5. You really have to be an expert to customize a style with nested style sheets. It's not my case. I am not a coder. I prefer a style with tables and plugins with tables. For 3.8.11, I prefer to customize with tables. It's easier for me and I don't care about Google indexing.

I start working on my 5.6.4 license this weekend. Vb 3.8.11 is over for me, it will be an 'Entry forum' and vb 5.6.4 will be a sort of Premium forum. Both forums linked on the same domain name.

Thanks to everyone who helped me with 3.8.11.

[kojay]

I don't recommend it
napy8gen, takes money in advance.

[lange]

I don't recommend it
napy8gen, takes money in advance.
When you buy a vbulletin theme, you pay in advance. The same goes for a service. The number of years in business, his website, his experience in the past are the best criteria for selecting him.

[kojay]

When you buy a vbulletin theme, you pay in advance. The same goes for a service. The number of years in business, his website, his experience in the past are the best criteria for selecting him.I just realized now that you need to pay money after work.

[lange]

You must have a budget to use a paid forum script and keep it alive especially in bandwidth if you use a lot of localhost HTML5 videos.