Mobile, Cell, Phone, PDA, iPhone Style

vBulletin 4.0 version here: https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/showthread.php?t=228986

A very cut back style with very low bandwidth usage which renders well on pretty much all small screen devices from old Nokias to new iPhones.

• Supports viewing/posting/replying in forums
• Supports Private Messaging
• Supports Tags (viewing, not adding)
• Supports viewing and replying to messages in Social Groups
• Supports Thread Prefixes
• has an add-on product to customise here: Extend and Customise Mobile Style (It is recommended that you install this also, but not required)
• Supports other stuff too ....

Notes

• If you are installing this on a vBulletin version higher than the current 'supported' version, and wish to get rid of the Out-of-Date Custom Templates Found! errors, see Post #329 for more information...
• I suggest you also install this add-on to this style to get more out of it...
• To modify the colour scheme of this style, you have to edit the wireless.css file by hand
• If you use a portal such as vbadvanced which you wish to disable in mobile style, see here

Release Information

• Version 0.0.1 - Initial release ported from my 3.6 version here
• Version 0.0.2 - Added auto quoting when replying to a post

  - fixed "Up" link bug
  - Added 'Posted via Mobile Device' message to new posts
  - couple small non - critical bugs fixed in some links
  

• Version 0.0.3 - No change other than change version to 3.7RC2
• Version 0.0.4 - Updated with security tokens tages for forms submital, and Gold version
• Version 0.0.5 - fixed navbar template "Home" link (you will need to edit this if your default forum page is not index.php)
• Version 0.0.6 - added ad_hook locations, fixed page titles, fixed couple small bugs
• Version 0.0.7 - Added Style chooser to UserCP, Post count to threads, Search Page, Attachment Sizes, More detailed time info, viewing/voting in polls, other stuff too probably
• Version 0.0.8 - now has an addon to customise certains aspects of this style - see HERE
• Version 0.0.9 - updated template version numbers to to 3.7.2 - no other changes have been made
• Version 0.0.10 - Now Fully Phrased (thanks Keyser Soze) Other updates included so its add-on product can do more customization

  Both this style and the addon will have the same version numbers - it's best to make sure you update the add-on when updating the style.

• Version 0.0.10a - fixed small bug in footer template

Install Instructions

• Save attached XML to your local computer
• Save attached wireless.css.txt, rename to wireless.css and upload to your forum root
• In AdminCP go to "Styles and Templates"
• In the "Import Style XML File" section browse to where you saved the XML
• Click "Import" button
• Come back to this page and click "Mark as Installed"

Other useful Add-ons to use in Conjunction with this style

• Extend and Customise Mobile Style

  This is a companion add-on designed specifically for this style which allows you to customise some aspects of it without the need to edit templates. Only works with version 0.0.8 and above

• Mobile Phone / iPhone / PDA Detection and Style Assignment

  Will automatically detect a mobile device and force the user to use a pre-defined style

• Different Domain, Different Style

  Will force the user to a predefined style based on URL visited (eg. visiting mobile.yourdomain.com will force the user to use a pre-defined mobile style wilst www.yourdomain.com will display your defaultstyle to the user
  

• Limit Posts/Thread per Page for a Specific Style

  Will set the maximum number of posts and threads displayed on a page based on a style. Whilst you may want to display 25 threads per page on a desktop, a small screen/mobile device would probably benefit from only showing 5 - 10 threads per page.
  

• How to hide a style from style chooser

  This template edit will allow you to 'hide' a style from the Style Chooser so users can't select a specified style.

Other Mobile Styles worth checking out

• ElForro's iPhone / iPod Touch Optimized Style
• Zachery's vB Lite Style
• vBMechanics Mobile Alabama Style

[dartho]

Adsense for Mobile is PHP code - it can;t be just added to a style with template edits. Where would you want the ads to appear?

[Jase2]

Ah, I see. Where is the most suitable place to have them showing? If you can suggest one, then that'd be great!

Sorry if this has been asked, but what are you using to test it on? (The app in the screenshots)

[dartho]

Originally Posted by Chris-777

Sorry if this has been asked, but what are you using to test it on? (The app in the screenshots)

Microsoft's windows mobile emulator

[slmoney]

Ads...

If they could be added in places like..below the navbar...after 1st post...and at the footer...I'd be a happy camper!

[dartho]

I'm going to have to put some template hooks in - I could re-insert the default ones, but then you'd get the same ads on mobile as desktop.

I'll try and put them in the same locations as the current ad hooks but preface teh name with "mob_"

A new version will be out with these in sometime this week

[Jase2]

Thanks Dartho!

[MissKalunji]

it's a nice style but to me was hard on the iphone :-/ i have a hard time to read and i've tested it with the website you gave in the previous thread and it said :

dancehallareaz.com/forum
It will possibly display poorly on a mobile phone.

Failed
XHTML Mobile Profile
Valid Markup
Character encoding

Warning
Use of stylesheets
Access keys
Default input mode

[dartho]

Originally Posted by MissKalunji

it's a nice style but to me was hard on the iphone :-/ i have a hard time to read and i've tested it with the website you gave in the previous thread and it said :

dancehallareaz.com/forum
It will possibly display poorly on a mobile phone.

ready.mobi is a test for "mobi" sites using their own set of criteria.

I'm limited to markup and character encoding as used by vBulletin which was never really designed with mobile devices in mind. However, this style does display on pretty much any device and gives quite significant functionality and very low bandwidth requirements.

I have listed a few other "mobile device" styles which are worth a look also.

One day I may take a stream off this one and make a "prettier" version for newer devices, but that will come at a sacrifice of bandwith and compatibility with older/smaller screen devices.

[MissKalunji]

thank's for clearing this up it looks fine really it was just hard on my eyes at first lol. And wasn't loading as fast as the previous one but like you said sacrifice for more features. and it wasn't that slow either. a lot of my members said they preferred that

i was just pointing it out in case you didn't know

Thanks for releasing this. I ended up using it anyways