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.

[Ommand]

I'm having a little bit of a hiccup using the provided plugin to disable vbadvanced integration.

If I view the forums from my desktop browser and select the Lightweight style everything displays correctly, if I view the same page from my phone (htc desire) the forum integration remains and the forums generally display broken, as seen in the attached screenshot.

Any thoughts what the issue could be?

P.S. I have the plugin installed and it appears to be correctly configured.

Edit: Sorry disregard, had to clear my phone's cache. Excellent theme / plugin, thanks a lot!

[dartho]

Originally Posted by 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.

You should as in the post thanks hack thread - they would have a a much better idea than I.

Originally Posted by Ommand

...Any thoughts what the issue could be?

P.S. I have the plugin installed and it appears to be correctly configured.


Edit: Sorry disregard, had to clear my phone's cache. Excellent theme / plugin, thanks a lot!

Glad to hear is OK - as an aside, that screen dump shows you don;t have this style installed, but the old Moile style I originally did.

[Ommand]

Weird, I'm most certainly using the latest version from this thread. Perhaps it has something to do with me being on an older version of vbulletin.

[dartho]

I guess you fixed it? Looks like t he right version on your site.

[The Dawg]

Originally Posted by struff

A couple of questions:

2) Sometimes videos show up as the entire video and sometimes just a link "Youtube Video". Any idea why?
.

Originally Posted by dartho

2. DO you have any media embedding plugins? The videos natively supported by vBuilletin would show as links, but of you have AME or other BBCODE, it would show as a video.

I am using 4.1.4, so the VB [ video ] code is used for embeds now. Is there a way I could get the youtube vids to show up as videos instead of links?



FIXED:

I replaced the bbcode_video template with the code from the VB mobile skin and it fixed the problem.

[dartho]

try reverting the bbcode_video template

[Robbed]

Since upgrading to 4.14

on post reply the smilies are lined up in a column, any way to fix it?

[Robbed]

Originally Posted by The Dawg

I am using 4.1.4, so the VB [ video ] code is used for embeds now. Is there a way I could get the youtube vids to show up as videos instead of links?



FIXED:

I replaced the bbcode_video template with the code from the VB mobile skin and it fixed the problem.

Can you post the template. I tried using the one from VB mobiel style and it still embeds.

[dartho]

@robbed - there are now smilies or embeded video in this style - sounds like you've merged templates? Re-install the lightweight one over top perhaps?

Here's teh bbcode_video template for this style - do a compare:

<vb:if condition="$provider == 'hulu'">
  <a href="http://www.hulu.com/embed/{vb:raw code}" target="_blank">Hulu Video</a>
<vb:elseif condition="$provider == 'youtube'" />
  <a href="http://www.youtube.com/v/{vb:raw code}" target="_blank">Youtube Video</a>
<vb:elseif condition="$provider == 'vimeo'" />
  <a href="http://vimeo.com/moogaloop.swf?clip_id={vb:raw code}" target="_blank">Vimeo Video</a>
<vb:elseif condition="$provider == 'dailymotion'" />
  <a href="http://www.dailymotion.com/swf/{vb:raw code}" target="_blank">Dailymotion Video</a>
<vb:elseif condition="$provider == 'metacafe'" />
  <a href="http://www.metacafe.com/fplayer/{vb:raw code}.swf" target="_blank">Metacafe Video</a>
<vb:elseif condition="$provider == 'google'" />
  <a href="http://video.google.com/googleplayer.swf?docid={vb:raw code}" target="_blank">Google Video</a>
<vb:elseif condition="$provider == 'facebook'" />
  <a href="http://www.facebook.com/v/{vb:raw code}" target="_blank">Facebook Video</a>
</vb:if>

[Mr Morningstarr]

Can't upload the XML file

Invalid File Specified