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.

[tareqbd]

Originally Posted by dartho

@tareqbd - the templates whose name appear in bold would be 'major' templates

Sorry! I did not get you. Where can I find the bold names for 'major' templates.

[dartho]

In the style manager in admincp...

Sorry, that was meant to be CAPS not bold

[letipro]

please update to 4.2.1
thank

[Bounce]

Dartho, any way of adding a reputation/like link to the style?

[thenamesgould]

I'm using this style for my mobile site, and I've just enabled Blogs on my site. When you go to a blog on the phone, it stays in the mobile site and is totally unreadable. I do have it set to use the normal style for Blogs in the admin settings.

Does anyone know what's going on ... or is there a way to overwrite the mobile blog style with the regular style?

[Filgga]

Originally Posted by dartho

@filgga - I can not reproduce this and looking at your site, the only quoted posts I see do have paragraphs ... Are you sure about this issue?

@dartho,

I'm trying to reproduce the theme to get it work with vB 4.2.1 and the navigation thing (which is fine in the new skin).

Generally, the new theme works with no errors except the <br /> issue which is a big pain to me.

Followed the details here but it did not solve my issue!

Q. I see <br /> instead of line breaks when quoting, full reply
A. See post: https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/showpost....&postcount=617

[dartho]

Did you also Try the plugin referred to in that post?

[rughis]

Hi Dartho, I've a problem with "Who's on line" after 4.2.1 migration

[dartho]

What's the problem?

[tOtherBlack]

Hello,

Writing a message board does not seem active. How can I fix this problem?

I'm bad speak english