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.

[jerde]

Dartho,

I'm having the same issue as BadgerDog in post #272 on the images extending out to the right side and I'm also using Seven Skins image resizer. Is there a fix in this style to make it so images stay within screensize?

Also, any update on CMS page compatibility?
How do I get rid of the sidebar in CMS page?
Also, on my CMS page, there is a dark grey background making it hard to read black text. How do I change that color to white?

Thanks for a awesome mobile style!

[jerde]

Well I sort of fixed my CMS page to look a little better. I got rid of the sidebar and widened the article area by editing these settings in the mobile style templates under vbcms.css. I set the r40 to 0px and the 160 to like 98%. I'm sure this is the wrong way to fix this issue but it's a temporary bandaid.

.yui-tvb-l25 {float:{vb:stylevar left};clear:{vb:stylevar right};width:25%;padding:0px;margin:0px;}
.yui-tvb-r25 {float:{vb:stylevar right};width:24%;padding:0px 0px 0px 0px;margin:0px 0px 0px 0px;}
.yui-tvb-l30 {float:{vb:stylevar left};clear:{vb:stylevar right};width:29%;padding:0px;margin:0px 0.5%;}
.yui-tvb-r30 {float:{vb:stylevar right};clear:{vb:stylevar left};width:30%;padding:0px 0px 0px 0px;margin:0px 0px 0px 0px;}
.yui-tvb-30 {{vb:stylevar left}:30%;width:30%;padding:0px 0px 0px 0px;margin:0px 0px 0px 0px;}
.yui-tvb-l40 {width:39%;float:{vb:stylevar left};clear:{vb:stylevar right};padding:0px;margin:0px 0.5%;}
.yui-tvb-r40 {width:0px;float:{vb:stylevar right};padding:0px 0px 0px 0px;margin:0px 0px 0px 0px;}
.yui-tvb-40 {clear:{vb:stylevar right};{vb:stylevar left}:30%;width:40%;padding:0px 0px 0px 0px;margin:0px 0px 0px 0px;}
.yui-tvb-50 {{vb:stylevar left}:25%;width:40%;padding:0px 0px 0px 0px;margin:0px 0px 0px 0px;}
.yui-tvb-l50 {float:{vb:stylevar left};clear:{vb:stylevar right};width:46%;padding:0px;margin:0px 2%;}
.yui-tvb-l60 {width:97.5%;float:{vb:stylevar left};padding:0px 0px 0px 0px;margin:0px 0px 0px 0px;}
.yui-tvb-r60 {width:59%;float:{vb:stylevar right};clear:{vb:stylevar right};padding:0px 0px 0px 0px;margin:0px 0px 0px 0px;}
.yui-tvb-70 {width:70%;float:clear;padding:0px 0px 0px 0px;margin:0px 0px 0px 0px;}

I also covered up the gray background in the article area by changing it from transparent to white (#FFFFFF).

The only thing left would be the images being re-sized smaller.

[DaffyDuck]

Originally Posted by DaffyDuck

Also, a small suggestion - including an image resize script into the style would be awesome, as that is pretty much all it is missing to deal with posts with images that invariably end up being too large.

As a suggestion, just include this code:

@media screen and (max-device-width: 480px){
   img{
          max-width:100%;
          height:auto;
          }
}

It will automatically resize images for iPhones.

Also, adding this will automatically hide the toolbar on iPhones:

window.addEventListener('load', function() {
      setTimeout(scrollTo, 0, 0, 1);
 }, false);

(or, can you give me a pointer where to add these myself?)

[oddmud]

I tried searching without getting a good post, looked through 39 posts and didn't find the answer.

My users have to scroll through all the pages to get to the last post. I personally just click on the title and it takes me to the last post, and ideas what might be causing it for them?

[Taurus1]

You could try adding a replacement variable in this style as follow:
search for: <img
replace with: <img style="max-width: 200px; max-height: 200px;"
?

Can you please specify where exactly to do this?

Thanks!

EDIT: I would also like to disable this mod in my lightweight style, but I have no idea how to do that. Can you please help me with that? I attach the product xml for it. Thank you so much!

Attachment 126367

[dartho]

Try entering in the code:

$vbulletin->options['modsettings_global_modsystem']=0;

in teh disable add-ons section

[Taurus1]

Originally Posted by dartho

Try entering in the code:

$vbulletin->options['modsettings_global_modsystem']=0;

in teh disable add-ons section

Thank you so much. That did it! :up:

The only other issue is that my image thumbnails are really way too big for this style. Is there a way I can re-size them forum-wide for this style only?

[Robbed]

dartho - after upgrading to 4.12

Can you fix the online users. It just shows array, changes were made to forumhome whos online.

Also when i click on a thread it redirects to a www instead of m. link. Anyway to fix that. (i uses assign a style to m.domain.com?

edit: Looks like if this is set to yes it causes the problem. I try No and it works fine but then some of my addons don't display correctly.

Always use Forum URL as Base Path yes or no

(any way to bypass this in your style)

[Robbed]

dartho

I ended up setting Always use Forum URL as Base Path to no

then opening headerinclude for my main skins and change this code

<base href="{vb:raw basepath}" />

I set it manually to mydomain/forums

This worked, let me know if you have any better way of doing this.

Just need the who is online fixed if possible.

[cisoprogressivo]

I installed both the theme and the options plugin, but nothing happens.


If i change the mobile theme from vB panel it works but thank the "desktop" link wont open the desktop theme.