Forum Style - Lightweight Style for Small Screen Devices (cell phone, iphone, mobile, android)

A lightweight *forum only style aimed at small screen devices such as Windows Smartphones, Nokias and even iPhones. It has VERY low bandwidth requirements - 15 times less on my site - 20K as opposed to 300K for forumhome.

*forum only - I have done a very small amount of rough work on CMS templates, a simple single column CMS *could* be created to work with this style without too much effort. However I am not sure if you can have a different CMS layout dependent on which style you are using?

This is an update to the mobile style I have previously released.

The changes are predominantly aesthetic to take advantage of larger screens.

It is also much easier to change colour schemes by editing the commented CSS file.

Demo: http://vbdev.org/forum.php?styleid=7

This is a a lightweight style and as such has much reduced functionality/information over the default vBulletin style.

Install instructions:

• Firstly, if upgrading, I recommend installing this as a new style rather than overwriting your previous install. This way you get to test it first without trashing your existing style.
• BACKUP YOUR EXISTING lightweight.css.php FILE IF YOU HAVE CSS CUSTOMISATIONS
• Download ZIP file
• Unzip to a local/temp directory
• Edit lightweight.css.php file to customise colours if required
• Upload contents of the upload directory in the zip file folder to your forum root.
• Install style XML via Style Manager in your ADMINCP
• **Install and configure "LightWeight Style Options"
• See post 2 for a FAQ
• Click "Mark as Installed"
• Test it out
• Leave a rating
• Leave feedback
• Enjoy checking your site from your mobile phone without the need to pinch/zoom/wait etc...

Version Control:

1.0.0 - 25 AUG 2010 - Initial Release on vBulletin.org
1.0.1 - 26 AUG 2010 - Fixed "Mark All Forums Read" link in Search results. Released Lightweight Style Options to customise this
1.0.2 - 21 MAR 2011 - Updated to 4.1.2, removed short tags from CSS, fixed some issues discovered since last release, added some stuff.
1.0.3 - 16 DEC 2011 - Updated to 1.0.3, tried to fix all known issues. Nothing new. If you have updated your site as bugs have been found, probably no need to upgrade. But if you're upgrading your site from to 4.1.9, might be worthwhile.
1.0.3a - 16 DEC 2011 - remove test ad hook code accidently left in postbit_legacy template

Branding Free:

The style is free to use. However I ask that you keep links in the footer. If you want to remove them - send me a donation of an amount you can afford, or that you think is fair/reasonable, it's up to you how much.

[reki]

Hi Dartho,

This looks like a great mod, but I keep getting a "Invalid File Specified" message when I try to import the xml, both from my hard drive and from the includes/xml folder on the server (where I've uploaded the file).

Any ideas?

[dartho]

Are you using Product Manager, or Style Manager? (hint: use the latter)

[nike.stars]

@dartho
oh my, that's it, after adding it to whitelist it works perfectly, thanks again!

[dartho]

excellent.

[reki]

duh.. how silly am I? Thanks dartho

[Taurus MFF]

this style is working great along with your Lightweight Style options and Mobile Auto-Detection product on 4.0.7, all three marked installed, thank you!

the only thing I have not gotten to work is the mobilelogo. I have confirmed the location of the file, file name and file type. it is less than 40px high. the mobilelogo does not display on my Android nor on my pc when I select the style. any suggestions?

[8thos]

How do you add avatars?

[dartho]

Edit the template which corresponds to the section you wish to add an avatar to.

[matahari77]

Originally Posted by DAMINK

I notice when you choose the light theme you cant change back?
That sucks.
Guess i have to hack the theme a bit.
Still i like it. Good for my mobile.

Good to know

[fly]

Originally Posted by matahari77

Good to know

You can change it back, you just have to enable the button in the Control Panel...

edit: Its even shown in dartho's screenshot