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.

[dartho]

You've got additional CSS references which are overriding the CSS from this style. Check your headinclude/header temlates for something like

<link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="css.php?styleid=19&amp;langid=1&amp;d=1314350285&amp;sheet=additional.css" />

and remove it

[dbetanco]

dartho, release the option for blog and cms!! maybe by donation?

[dartho]

There is no CMS or Blog option. I have done custom work for someone to make their CMS work within this style, but those changes did not translate over to the default CMS or other layouts, so can not be used in this style.

[dbetanco]

So made CMS work on my style
contact you by private

[rughis]

Hi, I made a mistake and I revert the lightweight style memberinfo template. Now if I view a user profile in lightweight style, it is not correctly formatted.

How I can do to restore the original version of lightweight style memberinfo template?

Thank you in advance!

[dartho]

re-install the style and merge into existing Lightweight style

[Filgga]

Originally Posted by Code Geass

works on 4.1.5 ?

YES,

It works but still I get same errors, waiting for dartho's solution

[Skyrider]

Mobile version is awesome, but when I edit a reply all the smilies are screwed up. Anyway to fix this? And could some moderator function be added in the mobile mode? Such as closing threads?

[dartho]

Delete the contents of the editor_clientscript template. Also, replace the contents of the editor_ckeditor template with that of the editor_toolbar_off template.

[@ngel]

When I search for "New Posts" and try to browse the "Last Page" of a topic, it takes me to the first. How can I fix this? Great work by the way