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.

[craigvm]

i`ve installed this but my index.php sends you to vba portal but on the mobile style its just a blank screen even after installing the plugin to disable vba on this style any idea how i can fix it

[Muhammad Rahman]

hay, I can not make a thread with this style, anyone can help?
information: vBulletin 4.2

thank you.

[thenamesgould]

Has anybody who has this style installed modified it to have the banner running all the way across the top of the page, and obviously appearing a bit bigger?

That's what I want to do, and I thought before I try to do it myself, if someone else has done it and I could have a sneaky look, I would try that first.

[thenamesgould]

Don't worry, all done now. Just a matter of increasing the height of the image in the CSS file, and increasing the size of the image itself. Looks great on the touchscreens you get these days!

[Gripi]

Hello...

May be this is a bug, i found that when i already subcribed to one thread via Full Style, then i post a new reply inside the thread using this Mobile Style, the thread automaticly got ubsubscribed.

Anyone experienced problem like this? and how to solve it?

Thanks alot for your help.

[charlesr]

Sorry if I've missed this already, but is anyone able to view their PMs? i.e. hit "usercp" and then "private messages"

[Alan_SP]

PMs work for me. Through UserCP I can access them if there aren't new, or there's special link if there are new (unread) PMs.

[@ngel]

Hello, for some reason the desktop link doesn't redirect to the desktop style, what should I do?

[@ngel]

Originally Posted by dartho

I'm going to release an addon product which enables such options. In the mean time have a look in the header template and search for

<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>

where xxx is your default styleid. change the href to suit your site also.

There are 2 instances that need to be edited as described above

I've done that but still doesn't work for me!

[dartho]

Do you allow users to change styles?

also - what version of VB. things are different in 4.2 I think ...