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.

[autoescala]

Originally Posted by inphoenix

I have installed this mod for 4.1.5 and seems to be working fine if I go to www.mysite.com/forum/forum.php. However if I go to www.mysite.com (my CMS) and then click on forum, it will switch to full version and not to mobile version. What am I doing wrong?

I have the same problem...

Anyone knows how can I call the mobile version as http://m.myweb.com ? and this subdomain loads always by default the "light" version ? Also I want all the bot spiders will use this version, but, I Don't know whre can I configure this issue.... anyone knows how to it?

[dartho]

Originally Posted by autoescala

Anyone knows how can I call the mobile version as http://m.myweb.com ? and this subdomain loads always by default the "light" version ?

try this: https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/showthrea...174381&page=15 and read the last page (page 15)

Also I want all the bot spiders will use this version, but, I Don't know whre can I configure this issue.... anyone knows how to it?
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try this one https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/showthread.php?t=249967 enable user defined device detection and in the Custom/User Defined Useragent String section, add your search agents. eg: googlebot,slurp,baidu,yahoo

click install if you use this also

[autoescala]

thank you very much dartho for your responso, I try your mobile version and I think is the best avabile. The only issue for me, is that I have CMS activated and is not working well with you style.

I will try to update VB to 4.17 and try the style for mobile but I'm not sure if is at least, lighter and faster than you great job....

[autoescala]

Originally Posted by dartho

try this one https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/showthread.php?t=249967 enable user defined device detection and in the Custom/User Defined Useragent String section, add your search agents. eg: googlebot,slurp,baidu,yahoo

click install if you use this also

I use vbulletin 4.1.4 and I plan to migrate to 4.1.7 soon, this version has it's own mobile detection, how can I define a style for a bot spider like google ? for example ? I can do that ? without using any SEO software..

Thanks in advance

[ymam]

I am running VB 4.0.3 and have been using for Lightweight style for the past 3 months and has been great with only one problem. Any new usergroup we add to our forums cannot view anything on the forums when logged in. As soon as they log out they can view the forums again.

Has anyone else encountered this problem? And if so, how can you fix this this?
Thanks.

[alhindasi]

please fix the Registration style it is not ok
Registration please fix it please

[alhindasi]

please fix the Registration style it is not ok please dear

[gezuvor]

Originally Posted by dartho

It doesn't look like you have made the style user selectable

Okay, that fixed it. Thanks dartho!

[IMMaster]

HI
It's really amazed style> Big Clap!!
please can this style automatically be the default style for iPhone or mobile phones?
I mean that no need for the iPhone user to change the style. The VB detect the iphone and change the style accordingly?

[dartho]

Yes - vb4.1.4+ has this support built in I believe.