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.

[cisoprogressivo]

OK, i was missing that one:
https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/showthread.php?t=249967
can I use the default Vbulletin panel?

[digitaldome]

got this error :

This file was created using a different version of vBulletin from the one you are running.

Your version: 4.1.2
File version: 4.0.6

[Ozymandyus]

During the import process, make sure the line "Ignore Style Version (Use style file even if it was created by a different version of vBulletin?)" is set to "Yes".

[warrior uw]

When i try to add the vsa chatbox, the whole thing goes wrong. It partialy shows it but it just says loading all the time. Now if i select a different theme, i can see the chatbox with no problems and all the chats/shouts.

Any ideas?

[yayacannes]

Its extremly good but now I have a problem between your add and this add :
https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/showthrea...96#post2174196

When I click on the Article forum, iphone safari says :
too many redirects, can't open the page

But no problem with the standard template...

Any solutions please ? I can reward to fix it please...

[dartho]

I would suggest you disable that add-on in this style - there is even an option :
Disable article forum for certain styles (Use a comma separated list of styleids)
in it just for this.

[yayacannes]

Yes but this option doesn't work

Any idea why ?

By the way, is your "simply mobile" theme available to test please ?

Thanks a lot !

[Mellow]

Sorry if this is a basic question. Any way to add a function to upload a pic from the phone/device using this style? Or, is that strictly an app related function?

[Mellow]

Strange issue using Motorola Atrix - I can try to post a new thread and enter the title and text but when I hit the Submit, nothing happens, it highlights but doesn't do anything, same if I edit an existing post... any ideas? Thanks,

[Redneck-Melly]

Never mind