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.

[MarceloS]

Originally Posted by dartho

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

Dartho, your PM box is full.

Donated and installed, thanks!

[S]It shows only the forum icons and names, not the style. What's wrong?[/S]

Edit: fixed, I uploaded to the wrong place LOL

[MarceloS]

How could I add on each thread page a link to the forum of the thread?

[dartho]

adding

<div><a href="index.php{vb:raw session.sessionurl_q}" accesskey="1"><img src="{vb:stylevar imgdir_misc}/navbit-home.png" alt="{vb:rawphrase home}" border="0" /></a>{vb:raw navbits.breadcrumb}</div>

to the end of the navbar template will add the breadcrumb in

[MarceloS]

Originally Posted by dartho

adding

<div><a href="index.php{vb:raw session.sessionurl_q}" accesskey="1"><img src="{vb:stylevar imgdir_misc}/navbit-home.png" alt="{vb:rawphrase home}" border="0" /></a>{vb:raw navbits.breadcrumb}</div>

to the end of the navbar template will add the breadcrumb in

Awesome! Thanks!

[MarceloS]

Is it possible to add links to the navbar?

[djbaxter]

This works much better and has much better functionality than the vBulletin mobile style released in 4.1.7.

Great work. Maybe you should offer to sell thjis to vBulletin, since theyu can't seem to figure out how to get it right.

[djbaxter]

I need to exclude ad banners from this mobile style. What's the simplest way to do this?

[dartho]

Depends what is creating the ads for you. If they are generated in plugins, you could wrap up the PHP code in

if (STYLEID!=n){

existing pluginin code

}

where n is the STyleID of this style.

You could also delete the ad hooks in templates in this style or if the ads are in templates - edit them out with in this style.

[MarceloS]

Dartho, I have been playing with the style, it is great man.

1. But there is one thing I could not do. My navbar links are too close together vertically (when the links make a second line). I tried adding padding to them, the padding shows on firebug but they do not add a space between the lines.

Do you have any idea about something I could do?

2. Another thing: is it possible to show a different guest notice for this style? (different from my deafult notice)?

[MarceloS]

3. Third thing

Quotes do not work for me, they create <br/> characters and other stuff.