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.

[dartho]

The 'Mobile Style' used to only display a link as opposed to the image. If you want to try tthis, check post #80 https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/showpost....4&postcount=80

[Yurified]

Does this work with 4.0.8?

[stijndevreede]

I just installed this style... but i wanted to switch back to my normal style, but it doens't work, now my forum is still white and not working right.
How can I fix this? My good style has been set to default but it doesnt work :O

Here is my URL: http://www.jelplusforum.nl/

Help me please!

[Brandon Sheley]

Originally Posted by stijndevreede

I just installed this style... but i wanted to switch back to my normal style, but it doens't work, now my forum is still white and not working right.
How can I fix this? My good style has been set to default but it doesnt work :O

Here is my URL: http://www.jelplusforum.nl/

Help me please!

I've looked over this site and here is a little more info
the admin has no plugins installed
I've tested this on a brand new default style
it's still adding your copyright and messing up the style even tho NO plugins are installed
Why would this plugin keep adding the copyright text and formating the style if the plugin isn't installed?
is there something hidden somewhere.

I'd urge everyone to stay away from this "mobile" hack, it'll mess up your site big time. :down:

[dartho]

This is not a hack, nor a plugin or product, it is a style. There is nothing "hidden". The only PHP code is in the CSS generation which is so simple that it is transparent to anyone with even a modicum of knowledge.

Looking at the site above, it looks like the user has merged this style into his master sytle, ultimately overwriting the base vbulletin style from which all else is inherited.

The reason the copyright appears is because the footer template from this style has been merged into the master template, as have all other templates from this style. Comments such as yours just shows a lack of knowledge.

This style is not set as a master style (look in the XML), yet this has been reported on about 5 sites (out many hundreds) so either there is a bug in vBulletin somewhere allowing this to happen rarely, or there is user error.

Now to fix the problem: Upload tools.php from the vbulletin install files to your admincp, run it and rebuild the master style (I think that's what it is called - it's one of the first options)

[stijndevreede]

Originally Posted by dartho

Now to fix the problem: Upload tools.php from the vbulletin install files to your admincp, run it and rebuild the master style (I think that's what it is called - it's one of the first options)

I fixed it. Thank you really much!

A beginning vBulletin user

[barakuda]

i installed this style with microclassifeds but classifieds menu not show up

[dartho]

You would need to manually add that, also - microclasssifieds, nor any other addon, will likely not render well in this style.

[wullieclsfb]

Hello is there anyway i can get mobile devices to detect this style

[wullieclsfb]

Originally Posted by wullieclsfb

Hello is there anyway i can get mobile devices to detect this style

I have got this sorted now