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.

[rwoscott]

Originally Posted by dartho

Have you tried re-downloading the zip and extracting it to a new location on your local computer before importing via the Style Manager?

Don't worry, I'm an idiot.
I was importing it as a plugin, not a style. Sheesh, how stupid.

Sorry to trouble you!!

[dartho]

I thought that may be the case - it's a common mistake ...

[pentolkorek]

update waiting for 4.1.3

[Merriweather]

I have worked a bit on the Social Groups portion of this style and it's easier to read and members can now start discussions in their Social Groups thread. dartho, when I add in the group pagination so you can see more than just the first ten topics in a group, I'd like to send you my files to see if you can incorporate them into the theme. Can I email you? PM me with an email address if that's ok.

[aldhawi999]

Thanks great style
BUT
is there a way to re-size images?

[dartho]

yeah, click "Mark as Installed" and then read the previous page or post #2

[The Rocketeer]

so how do you update it to the latest version?

[dartho]

almost the same way you install it, only select your existing lightweight style to merge it into and select ignore style version

[Phaedrus]

Is there a way to add a scroll bar in the reply window?

My users report that when replying to a post with a large quote it becomes impossible to scroll down and reply.

[dartho]

It should add scroll bars - does for me on my device. You could edit the editor_toolbar_* templates (there are 4 of them) and search for

style="width:100%; height:100px"

and replace with

style="width:100%; height:100px;overflow:auto"

in SHOWTHREAD search for style="height:100px;width:99%" and replace with above code.

This will explicitly specify adding scroll bars when text size is greater than textbox area.