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]

Anyone know when the vBulletin team will finally come out with a good mobile style?

[Filgga]

Originally Posted by Robru

Works very well with vB 4.1.4

Edit... This was my fault, disabled the smilies on the theme

[deverill2010]

Dartho a few templates need updating with the 4.1.4 version, do you plan on updating these at all?

Pretty please your mobile skin is the best by far. Better than vbulletin one as far as I am concerned

[deverill2010]

I have also noticed that if I edit a post it breaks out of the frame and you have to keep scrolling right to see the end of the box.

Damn updates!

[RRiccio]

Originally Posted by tadukuttan

Desktop/PCMode link does not seem to work with VB 4.1.3, every time user switches to Desktop Style, clicking any forum link causes style to switch back to Mobile/Lightweight style. I just changed default style chooser to have 'none' option with value '-1', similar to what VB mobile style uses to switch back to full style.

			<setting varname="ls_default_style" displayorder="20">
				<datatype>free</datatype>
				<optioncode>select:eval
$options = fetch_style_title_options_array();$options = array('-1' => $vbphrase['none']) + $options;</optioncode>
			</setting>

This works alright, please let me know if there is better fix.

where do I edit this?

[dartho]

Originally Posted by deverill2010

I have also noticed that if I edit a post it breaks out of the frame and you have to keep scrolling right to see the end of the box.

Damn updates!

Go into style manager and open up the Editor Templates > editor_toolbar_off template. Copy it's contents and then edit the Editor Templates > editor_ckeditor template and paste in what you copied. Then edit the editor_clientscript template and delete it's contents.

[baghdad4ever]

how to add google ads in this style?

[wrhatter]

Originally Posted by deverill2010

Dartho a few templates need updating with the 4.1.4 version, do you plan on updating these at all?

Pretty please your mobile skin is the best by far. Better than vbulletin one as far as I am concerned

This.

Users love the template, but it broke with the 4.1.4 upgrade.

Going to see if it's just a css issue, and hopefully it can be resolved relatively easily.

[wrhatter]

If you reupload the template it kicks back in properly.

Tells me that the upgraded templates broke the CSS links.

Not a big issue if you haven't heavily modified the templates, you can just re-upload and it'll fix itself. Otherwise, you'll have to re-edit your templates (postbit for me) to add your custom funcationality back in.

[leftanalog]

Ive been looking through the templates, but am unsure what I need to add/change to get the "Post thank you" hack to work with this lightweight style.

If someone could please help.
Thanks a ton.