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.

[dartho]

I've kept older versions here just in case someone doesn't like/want features added to later versions.

SO, download the latest one - "mobi vbulletin style 2.08.zip" unzip it. Uploads the wireless.css file to you forum root.

Install the style:
Go into your AdminCP, Styles and Templates, Download / Upload Styles.
In the "Import Style XML File" section, browse for the "mobi-vbulletin-style-2.08.xml" file you extracted from the zip. Sleect "yesy" to ignore style version (although I think it is currently set to 3.6.8) and then click on the "Import" button.

The style is now installed!

If you want to add mobile device detection so the style will automatically be applied to mobile devices, you will need to install THIS add-on.

[flamewar]

OK! Thanks!
All done .. crawling on ready.mobi now. Will take a few lol.

I was unsure of the styleID I was to put for each device. There were #s there already so I left them there. I hope those were correct. MObile was 2, PDA was 3 and IPOD was 4. Sound right?

[dartho]

You should have them all the same as you only have a single style to accomodate them all. If you go into AdminCP, Styles and Temapltes, Style Manager and then click on the "Go" button to teh right of the style name, the next screen should have a box at the top left with a heaidng of "Fonts / Colors etc.: stylename (id: xx)" where stylename is teh name of teh style, and xx is the styleid number you would use in the mobile device detection hack

[Alfa1]

Could you please add a version for those of us that have a branding free option on vbulletin? The current version does not remove the branding.

[dartho]

you can simply edit the "footer" template within this style and delete the copyright text which from memory is the last line...

[Alfa1]

Thanks

[RedWingFan]

Dartho: I'm actually testing this skin on a Nintendo DS, and it works fine! I'll tweak the colors a bit to match our site's theme, but otherwise, it's looking good. Thanks much!

[dartho]

vBulletin on a DS - cool! :up:

[Kihon Kata]

Will you be adding blogs to this?

[dartho]

I don't use (and am unlikely to use for at least 6 months - (I'm thinking of a new site)) the blogs add-on...