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.

[Merriweather]

Forgive me for not being able to read back all 22 pages, but a quick search of the thread didn't turn anything up so...

Are there any plans to devote any attention to the Social Groups in this style? I LOVE this style - it's the best one I've tried, but the Social Groups are a mess on it. I don't even think you can start a new discussion in your group from this style.

I can make the changes myself, but then if this style is updated, it makes updating a mess for me, so I'd love to see it rolled into the style itself.

[dartho]

No plans for this - a lot of the frame work is already in there from vb3.x, it just needs to be updated

Originally Posted by Merriweather

I can make the changes myself, but then if this style is updated, it makes updating a mess for me

Same here and I don;t even use social groups!

[Merriweather]

I don't understand? I meant if I customize YOUR style, and then YOU release a style update, that makes it really hard for me to sync the two. I was hoping you would be willing to include the updates in your style to avoid that.

As far as I can tell, you can't even post to social groups with this style.

[dartho]

Sorry, I misunderstood. Sure - if you do the updates to the groups templates, I'll merge them in to this style if/when I do another release.

[grc]

Glad I updated - it looks very good. Thanks for this style.

[grc]

Just asking hopefully on this one - but I have the DETech "thanks" mod installed on my forum. Is there any way that the "thanks" buttons can be displayed in the mobile style?
https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/showthread.php?t=243510

[rughis]

Hi

I ugraded my vB 4.1.1 CMS Suite to 4.1.3 and on the lightweight style I have a problem with the Currently Active Users: in any case I see always the word "Array", instead of the active users.



How I can solve this problem?

[dartho]

Are you using the latest version of the style? I did an update a couple weeks back that fixed that issue in 4.1.2. Just import the XML, no need to update the CSS

[HolyKiller]

Thanks for update, keep up this good work, don't let this skin "die", because that new vBulletin "Mobile" skin is .... so slooooooowwwwwww and

[NgocTam]

how to resize image in mobile styles