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.

[RaceJunkie]

Has anyone been able to get this style to work using vBadvanced with integration? I have tried the suggestions in this thread but have no luck. I am integrating my forums home page and when i have that enabled and this style. The style is unreadable. My members really like it but I need to run the vBadvanced because I use it to display ads in a right column.

I never had an issue with the 3.8 version of the mobile style only once I upgraded to 4.0 and started using this one.

[dartho]

Did you try the suggestion on the previous page? (post #167) If it doesnt work at first, also try substituting

if ($vbulletin->userinfo['styleid'] == 5)

for

if (STYLEID == 5)

[Alec W]

I'm not sure what I did wrong but I installed it on 4.1.0 and basically get none of the style.

This is on a localhost test so I can't give you a URL. I disabled all my plugins but get teh same results.



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Edit:

Disregard, I should learn how to read all the prior posts, short tags are off on my host but the alternate ccs on post two worked.



Thanks for the mod

[OldSchoolDSL]

uninstalled

[RaceJunkie]

Originally Posted by dartho

Did you try the suggestion on the previous page? (post #167) If it doesnt work at first, also try substituting

if ($vbulletin->userinfo['styleid'] == 5)

for

if (STYLEID == 5)

Thanks the second option done the trick..

[RaceJunkie]

If I select the PC Mode on my phone, I'm stuck using it. How to I get back to the Mobile version, if I have it disabled from the style chooser?

[dartho]

Whats the point of removing it from the style chooser if you want to be able to select it?

If you have teh autodetect hack on (the version which allows override) in theory, closing all browser sessions and logging back into your site should re-enable teh autodetect bit. Clearing of cookies might be require - different browsers do different things :S

[barakuda]

i've got this message in template admin section
The attempted merge failed due to conflicts

[dartho]

edit and save all of those without making any changes

[thieu.bocap]

How to resize image in post this style?