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.

[djbaxter]

Originally Posted by dartho

Depends what is creating the ads for you. If they are generated in plugins, you could wrap up the PHP code in

if (STYLEID!=n){

existing pluginin code

}

where n is the STyleID of this style.

You could also delete the ad hooks in templates in this style or if the ads are in templates - edit them out with in this style.

Thank you. I am using the Rotating Banners add-on. This worked. I inserted

/** don't display banners for Mobile 2 style **/
if (STYLEID!=134) {

at the top of the "Banner Insertion" plugin and

}

at the very bottom.

[dartho]

Originally Posted by MarceloS

Dartho, I have been playing with the style, it is great man.

1. But there is one thing I could not do. My navbar links are too close together vertically (when the links make a second line). I tried adding padding to them, the padding shows on firebug but they do not add a space between the lines.

Do you have any idea about something I could do?

Did you do this by editing teh CSS file, or inline? Try which ever one you haven;t already tried

2. Another thing: is it possible to show a different guest notice for this style? (different from my deafult notice)?

You could use notices manager using teh style criteria

3. Third thing

Quotes do not work for me, they create <br/> characters and other stuff.

I'm not sure whay that happens on a few sites - haven't been able to reproduce it.

@djbaxter :up:

[alhindasi]

please fix the Registration style it is not ok
Registration please fix it please

please fix the Registration style it is not ok please dear

[alhindasi]

Dear , dartho

please fix the Registration style it is not ok
Registration please fix it please

please fix the Registration style it is not ok please dear

[dartho]

The registration template is low on my list of things to do in the very limited time I currentlyhave to do things, and repeatedly asking won't make it happen any faster. You haven't even marked this modification as installed.

[Ozymandyus]

Dartho, I've seen users with odd names posting almost the same thing in threads for other products. I think it's some kind of spammer.

[ymam]

Bump....

Originally Posted by ymam

I am running VB 4.0.3 and have been using for Lightweight style for the past 3 months and has been great with only one problem. Any new usergroup we add to our forums cannot view anything on the forums when logged in. As soon as they log out they can view the forums again.

Has anyone else encountered this problem? And if so, how can you fix this this?
Thanks.

[MarceloS]

Originally Posted by dartho

Did you do this by editing teh CSS file, or inline? Try which ever one you haven;t already tried

I tried both ways. I could only increase padding of the navbar box, but not between the lines.

Originally Posted by dartho

You could use notices manager using teh style criteria

Thanks!

Originally Posted by dartho

I'm not sure whay that happens on a few sites - haven't been able to reproduce it.

@djbaxter :up:

Well I had used a fix that is on your second post. I reverted to the original code and it fixed it LOL. One thing: now I can reply and quote, no problem, but I get a list of smilies. But the smilies are not functional, nothing happens if I click them.

So how can I remove these smilies?

Is it supposed to be missing the bbcode buttons?

Thanks man for the product and support.

[dartho]

did you try this : https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/showpost....&postcount=397

[tron_gr]

how can make this work fine with vbadvanced portal system?

thanks