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.

[sqzdog]

If I missed this somewhere, I apologize. Will the style automatically show up if someone logs in from a mobile device? Or do they have to select it?

[The Rocketeer]

Originally Posted by sqzdog

If I missed this somewhere, I apologize. Will the style automatically show up if someone logs in from a mobile device? Or do they have to select it?

^ This and also wanting to know if it works fully with the latest Vbulletin ?

[dartho]

no and yes

No it doesn;t autodetect mobile devices see https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/showthrea...ghlight=mobile for detection and yes it is working with the latest version of vBulletin

[The Rocketeer]

Originally Posted by dartho

no and yes

No it doesn;t autodetect mobile devices see https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/showthrea...ghlight=mobile for detection and yes it is working with the latest version of vBulletin

Thanks for that, I installed it, was working fine but the "LightWeight Style Options" seems to be buggy for some reason, I couldnt geet that to work properly so I uninstalled the style for now...

Now all we need is the "Extra Options" to be fixed and so that users can change the style and vice versa.

[daveaite]

nice work

[res6cue]

Installed this morning, and my users absolutely LOVE it! Great job, especially when combined with the lsoptions and mobdetect mods! Nominated for MOTM!

PS - A suggestion would be to put a link to the mobdetect mod in the main post here, maybe under Addons with the lsoptions link. I had to read every post in this thread (not necessarily a bad thing) to find out about it, and I see people are still asking about that functionality.

[Hdeaf.com]

Whoa, very slick

[DaffyDuck]

Doesn't seem to be working on 4.1pl2 -- shows just text, but no CSS, graphical chrome, or anything.

Any fixes available?

[dartho]

works fine under 4.1pl2. Sounds like you either haven't uploaded the CSS.PHP file to your forum root, or perhaps your server doesn;t support php short tags, in which case you should download the alternative CSS.PHP file available in the first post (or first reply to this thread as the case may be)

[BadgerDog]

When I installed this, I didn't realize (my bad) that it would also embed my advert code from each forum, generated from this mod:

Add Ads to each forum.

The graphic ads appear at the top of the forums, slowing down Dartho's excellent skin style.

Since the ad mod uses HTML, I think the fix for me is simple ...

Can you provide me with the IF statement in vBulletin jargon that I can put in front of my HTML code for the forum ads so it DOES NOT execute if the style equals the value of my mobile skin?

In other words ..

===================
If style not equal to "x" then skip to end and do not execute adsense code display ...

adsense code

end
=============

Thanks ...

Regards,
Doug

ps: Has anyone who uses it, been able to solve the conflict with this mod that I mentioned in a previous pic?

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