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]

Originally Posted by asuccar

how can we have it for blogs as well?

by painstakingly editing all the blogs templates so they display on a small screen Ok.

vbulletin will have it covered by the end of the year if what they say over at vbulletin.com is true

[Manoel J?nior]

Great man!

Thanks: INSTALLED!

[Rebecca217]

This is great! Thank you!

[fridaypassion]

Just installed this and it made my CMS disappear?

[dartho]

CMS does not work (well) in this style, but it should not be affected in any other.

[pandusetiawan]

Hi Dartho...great work with this stuff...two thumbs up for you
A little question...how can I add "first page" link in the thread view..since the threadview are always bring us to the last post/last page of the thread.thanks.

[dartho]

It shouldn't bring up the last post, but rather the first unread post.

You could add or modify the link in the threadbit template to one of the following

First Post:
<a href="{vb:link thread, {vb:raw thread}, {vb:raw pageinfo}, 'threadid', 'threadtitle'}" id="thread_title_{vb:raw thread.realthreadid}">First Post</a>

First New Post:
<a href="{vb:link thread, {vb:raw thread}, {vb:raw pageinfo_newpost}, 'threadid', 'threadtitle'}" id="thread_gotonew_{vb:raw thread.realthreadid}">First New Post</a>

Last Post:
<a href="{vb:link thread, {vb:raw thread}, {vb:raw pageinfo_lastpost}, 'threadid', 'threadtitle'}#post{vb:raw pageinfo_lastpost.p}">Last Post</a>

[pandusetiawan]

Oh I see.
Ok..I'll try it tomorrow...thx a lot buddy

[pandusetiawan]

Originally Posted by dartho

It shouldn't bring up the last post, but rather the first unread post.

You could add or modify the link in the threadbit template to one of the following

First Post:
<a href="{vb:link thread, {vb:raw thread}, {vb:raw pageinfo}, 'threadid', 'threadtitle'}" id="thread_title_{vb:raw thread.realthreadid}">First Post</a>

First New Post:
<a href="{vb:link thread, {vb:raw thread}, {vb:raw pageinfo_newpost}, 'threadid', 'threadtitle'}" id="thread_gotonew_{vb:raw thread.realthreadid}">First New Post</a>

Last Post:
<a href="{vb:link thread, {vb:raw thread}, {vb:raw pageinfo_lastpost}, 'threadid', 'threadtitle'}#post{vb:raw pageinfo_lastpost.p}">Last Post</a>

Work well....thx very much bro...you're the man

2 more thing....how to add 'First page' & 'Last Page' link in postbit & how to make picture (that using [img] tag) are displayed in postbit?
Thx

[dartho]

I'm not sure I understand - the postbit is for individual posts - there is no first/last.

Images should work as normal