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.

[RealLifeHacks]

well now i got it working. in case anyone has the same problem: create a new style. then upload this style and install it. while installing choose "merge with other skin" (im not sure how its called in the english version. my acp is in german...) select your newly created skin. done

thx to dartho for the tip with the merged skins.

next question: has anybody a good idea how to deal with google adsense? the banners are much to big now :P

[dartho]

look at google adsense mobile. I posted up code in thr 3.8 version of a mobile skin somewhere on how to integrate it, but I'd be suprised if it hasn't changed and is much easier since then

[nike.stars]

@dartho
could you use the same paging system like vb standard styles in thread view so that user can choose first/last page instead of navigating it one by one?

[dartho]

Check post 103 - https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/showpost....&postcount=103

[nike.stars]

Originally Posted by dartho

Check post 103 - https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/showpost....&postcount=103

that's great, probably you should include it on next revision or attach this information on first post

[robbiefritz]

I installed the xml it proceeded to merge templates and when complete, did not show a new style. Create a new style was selected at the time. Any ideas?

[dartho]

@nike - yeah, it's there waiting to be included, just a busy time of year for me at the moment

@robbie - Dunno - try again?

[Alex@Mk3OC]

Having a problem with this style on my vb 4.0.8 test installation, when ever I try and post a thread or reply to a thread it gives me the following DB error:

Invalid SQL:
INSERT INTO post
        (showsignature, allowsmilie, htmlstate, username, userid, title, pagetext, iconid, visible, parentid, threadid, dbtech_thanks_enablethanks, dbtech_thanks_requirethanks_content, dbtech_thanks_requirethanks_attach, dbtech_thanks_enablelike, dbtech_thanks_requirelike_content, dbtech_thanks_requirelike_attach, dbtech_thanks_enabledislike, ua, dateline, ipaddress, attach)
VALUES
        (0, 1, 'on_nl2br', 'Alex', 256, '', '[QUOTE=Alex;603550]Justin has a medal :o[/Q UOTE]\r\n \r\nTesting quoted replies on the smartphone style', 0, 1, 603550, 43271, '1', '0', '0', '1', '0', '0', '1', 'Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US) AppleWebKit/534.7 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/7.0.517.41 Safari/534.7', 1287962753, '194.72.102.165', 0);

MySQL Error   : Unknown column 'ua' in 'field list'
Error Number  : 1054
Request Date  : Monday, October 25th 2010 @ 12:25:53 AM
Error Date    : Monday, October 25th 2010 @ 12:25:53 AM
Script        : http://xxxxxx.com/forum/newreply.php
Referrer      : http://xxxxxx.com/forum/newreply.php?do=newreply&p=603550
IP Address    : xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx
Username      : Alex
Classname     : vB_Database
MySQL Version : 5.0.45

[dartho]

That wouldn't be this style causing that, but it looks like it is related to the Options add-on that goes with this style. Try uninstalling, and then re-installing "Lightweight Style Options"

Also, read the "Notes" section of the first post in that thread ...

[NobbyTSL]

Dartho, I've been wanting to install your mobile skin on my forum for quite a while (I keep completely forgetting to post why I can't in here whenever I try)

I download the skin & install it all fine but I don't like how you can't select to change the skin once you're on the mobile skin.

I believe this problem can be solved by using the Lightweight Style Options mod.

The problem there is whenever I download it I get the following problem. (It saves to my desktop looking like a .rar file but when I click it to open I get this)



What am I doing wrong?