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 bfdzio

Being told the 'Mark Forums Read' button doesn't work again...?

It works in Forumhome, but after checking I see that I did not update it in the search results.

To correct, edit the search_resultlist template and replace

<div class="footlink"><a href="forumdisplay.php?{vb:raw session.sessionurl}do=markread">{vb:rawphrase mark_forums_read}</a></div>

with

<div class="footlink"><a href="forumdisplay.php?{vb:raw session.sessionurl}do=markread&amp;markreadhash={vb:raw bbuserinfo.securitytoken}" rel="nofollow">{vb:rawphrase mark_forums_read}</a></div>

[dartho]

Originally Posted by Mopar Rob

Can someone please help...
I am getting the following error When I try updating the Header Template as described above: adding child to non-existent node!

You would get that error if you have not made the edits's exactly as described.

Also, Fungsten is correct - there are 2 instances that should be edited

Find:

<vb:if condition="$vbulletin->options['ls_default_style_link']==1">
			<a class="toplinks" href="{vb:raw $vbulletin->options['ls_navbar_home']}?{vb:raw session.sessionurl}styleid={vb:raw vboptions.ls_default_style}">{vb:raw vboptions.ls_default_link}</a>
		</vb:if>

and replace with:

			<a class="toplinks" href="forum.php?{vb:raw session.sessionurl}styleid=xxx">Desktop</a>

[IraqChoosesLife]

Thank you
Regards

[dartho]

<a href="showthread.php?t=249339" title="vBulletin.org Forum - Mod 249339">Lightweight Style Options</a> released. If you made edits to include a link to teh default style, you can revert those edits and install this product.

Also released update to fix Mark Forums Read error on Search Results page

[Ozymandyus]

Dartho, I use a DroidX for mobile browsing...it's a monster huge screen so results may be atypical, but here's what I see.

• Colors and fonts are great
• Using it with your new mobile style options is very helpful, particularly for the 'return to normal style' link
• It needs a spacer at the top. Currently the 'log out' button goes beyond the top edge of the style
• 'Edit' and 'Reply' buttons overlap text...not badly, but very noticeable.

More feedback as I see it, but it's excellent for first release. Thank you for sharing with us.

[Brandon Sheley]

very nice 4.0 mobile style
/me tags this one

[reimic]

is there anyone out there who can optimize the cms section?

[omanmoon.net]

Hello
Thanks dartho for this amazing add-ons
am using from 3.x

but i have problem with Arabic language in this Plug-ins
i cant logging to the forum because the language cant be read!
even i change the encoding in the [lightweight-vbulletin-style-1.0.1] in the first line:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="ISO-8859-1"?>

to UTF-8 also can't read

when i change encoding to [windows-1256] still cant read any thing but the logging is done!
The encoding [windows-1256] better for Arabic language
How can solve this problem because i like this style and use it.

Thanks

[dartho]

Hi omanmoon.net, I know very little of the complexities of encoding and translation between languages (among many, many other things ), but I'm sure someone else here probably does and can hopefully help.

[dartho]

Originally Posted by djawir

here is screenshot on my device nokia e71 using default browser

I test primarily under IE, FF, Windows Mobile 6.5 (PocketIE), Opera Mini, Opera for Mobile, Chrome, Safari and have just loaded up an Android emulator and an iPhone emulator. I'm trying to find an emulator I can use for Nokia phones to test this further ...

Are you able to update firmware / browser software?