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.

[Alan_SP]

Originally Posted by djbaxter

When you say "disabled" do you mean uninstall? or how exactly did you disable the vB options? I am also on 4.1.12 PL1.

Just put it to None, you have two options in ACP->Settings->Options->Style & Language Settings:

Default Style for Old Mobile Browsers
Default Style for Modern Mobile Browsers

There you can choose style you want automatically selected when user's browsing from mobile. Put it to none (or use it, than you don't need mod from dartho). In some vB versions there was bug and this didn't worked. Not sure in which version it was corrected if it is corrected. I'm using dartho's mod and it works.

[Merriweather]

Something is going on with the pagenav. For instance, I am seeing:

Thread Title Here > (25) ()

Where "25" is the number of posts, and the parenthesis is supposed to have the page navigation links, but it's showing up blank. It will show (...Last Page) if there are at least 50 posts, but for 10 - 49 posts, I get blank parenthesis.

Ideas?

[dartho]

If you red over the last couple pages, there have been some issues reported which seem to be resolved by reinstalling as a new style?

[Merriweather]

I tried that to no avail. I'm thinking it might be because I installed it as a mobile style vs a regular style?

[Hippy]

after updating to vb4.1.12 pl1 it's not caching any templates.

I have 8WayRun.Com - Micro Debug Stats installed since day one and you can see if a template is not being cached.. as so

this is 8wayrun's screenshot from his mod as a example of whats happening


this only start to display a long list of stock and mod template after the latest..

I am not sure what vb changed for this to happen..

any ideas ?

[djbaxter]

Originally Posted by Hippy

after updating to vb4.1.12 pl1 it's not caching any templates.

I have 8WayRun.Com - Micro Debug Stats installed since day one and you can see if a template is not being cached.. as so

this is 8wayrun's screenshot from his mod as a example of whats happening


this only start to display a long list of stock and mod template after the latest..

I am not sure what vb changed for this to happen..

any ideas ?

Yep. Re-import the XML for the style.

[Hippy]

I did and lost all the templates that where not edited from when we did the post thanks..
I had to add them back manually
but that did not fix it
I even deleted it and imported it again...

[dartho]

I think the way to resolve the uncached templates would be to deleted those templates from the XML file before importing the style. I've been pretty busy lately and haven;t had teh time to sit down and have a proper look as yet ...

[Hippy]

thanks .. But seems they are missing .. I think one of the vb updated moved it to a mobile style and if it wasn't a edited template it did away with it
so adding them back I think will fix it ..
Not sure if thats the correct way tho..
life first .. and see what you come up with

thanks for the support

[S_E_A]

Receive an Array error message when checking users online on 4.1.12. Anyone else had this problem?

Cheers