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.

[sportsfroma2]

Originally Posted by dartho

I think that may be a new template, as it does not exist in my style, so deleting it's contents is probably the way to go. To answer your question - no, it will not cause other issues removing that code.

ed: Just looked at my test site, I have that template there same as above.

However, I have deleted the contents of the editor_clientscript template. Also, I have replaced the contents of the contents of the editor_ckeditor template with that of the editor_toolbar_off template

thanks Dartho, that helped alot...

[sportsfroma2]

Dartho, question for you- This probably isn't a result of your mod, but since you know a lot about the functionality of the mobile style and vbulletin, figured I'd put this question in this thread:


I currently have a subdomain setup (through cpanel) so that mobile.mydomain.com takes me to the site in "mobile style" - the site in this skin.. So mobile.mydomain.com = http://www.mydomain.com/forums/forum.php?styleid=21

Now I wanted to turn on mod_rewrite friendly URL's for my site, so I used the .htaccess file that's bundled with vbulletin to rewrite the URLs- everything worked fine my my main style, but I was no longer able to get to the lightweight style from mobile.mysite.com

any recommendation?

[dartho]

What I suggest you do if you want a mobile.domain.com type site is install another add-on mine - https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/showthread.php?t=174381 - after installing this, configure it for mobile.domain.com, also add mobile.domain.com to your post referrer whitelist in Admincp->Settings lastly, configure the sub domain in cpanel to not redirect, but to park it on the same websapce as your primary domain.

[sportsfroma2]

Originally Posted by dartho

What I suggest you do if you want a mobile.domain.com type site is install another add-on mine - https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/showthread.php?t=174381 - after installing this, configure it for mobile.domain.com, also add mobile.domain.com to your post referrer whitelist in Admincp->Settings lastly, configure the sub domain in cpanel to not redirect, but to park it on the same websapce as your primary domain.

Hmm, I'll look into that... Thanks again Dartho, really appreciate it

[ndut]

waiting for vb 4.1.5

[etca]

Originally Posted by dartho

I'll likely update after 4.1.5 is released.

However, the only issue I have had on my test site after updating to 4.1.4 is smileys showing up in a full reply which can be fixed following the instructions on the previous page.

i use 4.1.5, lightweight is work
except showing the smiley of course.

[S_E_A]

Originally Posted by deverill2010

I have also noticed that if I edit a post it breaks out of the frame and you have to keep scrolling right to see the end of the box.
Damn updates!

Originally Posted by dartho

Go into style manager and open up the Editor Templates > editor_toolbar_off template. Copy it's contents and then edit the Editor Templates > editor_ckeditor template and paste in what you copied. Then edit the editor_clientscript template and delete it's contents.

I have tried the above suggestion without any luck. Has the suggestion worked for others? If yes, then I am obviously doing something wrong. Or will the 4.1.5 update resolve the problem, dartho?

Thank you

[dartho]

I didn;t look into the post editing breaking out of frame as I couldn't reproduce. Could you link me to your site so I can check? I'd need an account to test

[dartho]

Got PM - thanks. I see the "breaking out of the frame" issue. I think I'm going to have to upgrade my test site to 4.1.5 to check properly which may not happen for a couple days. If you can PM me admin credentials (or change the acocunt I just logged in with to have admin rights on tenmplate editing) I could look nowish...

[S_E_A]

Hi dartho,

I have sent you a PM.

Thank you.