Mobile/Cell Phone Style

A version for 3.7 can be found HERE

A super light style designed for Mobile Phones - use in conjunction with THIS or THIS modification to redirect mobile phone users to this theme.

This is a work in progress, and any and all feedback is greatly appreciated - I will do my best to act on bugs and suggestions.

Check http://mobility.mobi (not my site) from a mobile device to see how it looks or you can visit via an emulator HERE

Whilst this doesn't have ALL functionality of vBulletin default, it does allow browsing forums, replying to posts, creating new topics and sending/receiving PMs.

I'm new at this, be kind.

Version History
1.00 - Initial Release
2.00 - Validates Strict XHTML 1.0 on http://validator.w3.org/
Added PM notification, fixed new reply, new thread, new PM to look better. Can edit posts. Added Logout and also an "Up" menu which will take you to the parent forum of where ever you currently are. Images in posts are replaced with a link to the image - unfortunately this meant I had to do teh same to smilies which all now show up as :-) (which is a link to teh smilie itself). It is now approaching a fully functioning skin - not sure what else you would want to do from a mobile phone/PDA. A few small bugs fixed too.
2.01 - Added viewing thread subscriptions, who's online (both only for logged on members) and quick reply
2.02 - Quick reply for logged on members only
2.03 - fix a w3.org validation issue, added "mark forums read" to forum home
2.04 - Internal release
2.05 - added mark as read to 'new posts' added 'sub' (Subscribed threads) and 'online' (who's online) footer navbar forum name in post title (as link) fixed a few things.
2.06 - Page numbers appear in thread bits
- UserCP page, with access to PMs, Subscribed Threads, Edit Signature, Edit Options (which includes changing view from oldest first to newest first
- Basic MOD options added - can delete posts and threads (and undelete also)
- Remember me added to login in footer (duplicate login screens removed
- I should probably test this latest version more extensively and re validate it, but thought you wouldn;t mind a pre-release

2.07 - Added requests, revalidated STRICT XHTML on w3.org. If you have modified your existing install of this, I suggest you backup the style first before upgrading with this new version just in case you want to roll back.
2.08 - Remove backlink from FORUMHOME
2.09 - updated version numbers on templates to 3.6.9
2.10 - added securitytoken field to all forms

A Spanish translation can be found in post # 200 HERE

Install Instructions
Unzip and upload the wireless.css to your forum root.
Import the XML as a new style WITH NO PARENT.

Upgrade Instructions
Unzip and upload the wireless.css to your forum root (overwriet existing).
Import the XML and merge with existing. Alternatively you could delete the existing mobi style and re-upload fresh.

Keywords: Mobile, Cell, Portal, Mobi, Light, PDA, Phone

Screen Shots - Don;t be put off by the colours, these are all very easily changed by editing the CSS file. If you need help, just ask. I did these from a desktop browser with the window resized to 240px wide - to get a proper idea of the look, use the emulator link mentioned above. It looks MUCH better from an actualy small screen device!



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.

[Mark Hewitt]

PS. It also looks like there is no way to register by just using the mobile version?

[dartho]

I though it *did* include quoted text (at least it did somewhere along the line ina previous version.... anyway....)

I'll add the quoted text back in as well as fixing the $foruminfo[forumid] link.

Thanks!

[brott]

I just tried to import this "out of the box" into 3.6.8 and it will not work. modifying the version information in the XML to 3.6.8 helps but there is still a database error on import. Sounds like upgrading is fine, but from scratch doesn't work properly.

[tekguru]

Originally Posted by dartho

use it as a foundation for a skin aimed for more recent devices such as Windows Mobile devices, Blackberrys (and others as suggested) which uses drop downs, basic javascript etc...

Yay sounds good to me!

[tekguru]

Another comment from one of my guys when I advised where you were going with the theme. He is unaware of the style detector Mod:

hmmm, sounds ok except as long as we can choose which one to use as I'm quite happy as is for smartphone!

One improvement suggestion is to mirror the top of page links at the bottom of the page too, some pages are a long old scroll on a phone.

[Mark Hewitt]

Originally Posted by dartho

Glad you like it! Feel free to click "Mark as Installed"

As soon as this skin has no new suggestions/fixes etc for a week or two I'll mark it as no longer a Beta, and use it as a foundation for a skin aimed for more recent devices such as Windows Mobile devices, Blackberrys (and others as suggested) which uses drop downs, basic javascript etc...

Can't we have moderator functions in the existing version? I don't have a blackberry or PDA but I do have a mobile phone.

For each thread there could just be a "Manage Thread" link which brings up a menu for the likes of 'Stick Thread', 'Close Thread', options for renaming etcetc. Wasn't so long ago in vb2 we did just fine thankyouverymuch without drop down menus etc.

It would be a shame to get the mobile version up to this point then stop development to produce a more bloated version

[dartho]

Originally Posted by Mark Hewitt

It would be a shame to get the mobile version up to this point then stop development to produce a more bloated version

That's why I've asked for more comment/suggestions - I'll do what I can

[aapkae]

no screen shoot?

[dartho]

You'll find that they are in the "Screenshots" section, there are also links to emulators and live sites.

[Mark Hewitt]

Some thoughts after using it for a few days..

It's difficult to keep track of latest posts. When forums have new posts they have a green background, my suggestion is to extend this into the forumdisplay, when a thread has new posts, it has a green background.

Additionally, for the posts themselves, the header bar with the username, that should have a green background when it's a new post.

Also it doesn't seem to jump to the latest post the way it does on the full version. I don't know if that's a limitation of the skin or my phone.

PS You can find my forums at http://m.motorsportforum.com/