Mobile/Cell Phone Style

A version for 3.7 can be found HERE

A super light style designed for Mobile Phones - use in conjunction with THIS or THIS modification to redirect mobile phone users to this theme.

This is a work in progress, and any and all feedback is greatly appreciated - I will do my best to act on bugs and suggestions.

Check http://mobility.mobi (not my site) from a mobile device to see how it looks or you can visit via an emulator HERE

Whilst this doesn't have ALL functionality of vBulletin default, it does allow browsing forums, replying to posts, creating new topics and sending/receiving PMs.

I'm new at this, be kind.

Version History
1.00 - Initial Release
2.00 - Validates Strict XHTML 1.0 on http://validator.w3.org/
Added PM notification, fixed new reply, new thread, new PM to look better. Can edit posts. Added Logout and also an "Up" menu which will take you to the parent forum of where ever you currently are. Images in posts are replaced with a link to the image - unfortunately this meant I had to do teh same to smilies which all now show up as :-) (which is a link to teh smilie itself). It is now approaching a fully functioning skin - not sure what else you would want to do from a mobile phone/PDA. A few small bugs fixed too.
2.01 - Added viewing thread subscriptions, who's online (both only for logged on members) and quick reply
2.02 - Quick reply for logged on members only
2.03 - fix a w3.org validation issue, added "mark forums read" to forum home
2.04 - Internal release
2.05 - added mark as read to 'new posts' added 'sub' (Subscribed threads) and 'online' (who's online) footer navbar forum name in post title (as link) fixed a few things.
2.06 - Page numbers appear in thread bits
- UserCP page, with access to PMs, Subscribed Threads, Edit Signature, Edit Options (which includes changing view from oldest first to newest first
- Basic MOD options added - can delete posts and threads (and undelete also)
- Remember me added to login in footer (duplicate login screens removed
- I should probably test this latest version more extensively and re validate it, but thought you wouldn;t mind a pre-release

2.07 - Added requests, revalidated STRICT XHTML on w3.org. If you have modified your existing install of this, I suggest you backup the style first before upgrading with this new version just in case you want to roll back.
2.08 - Remove backlink from FORUMHOME
2.09 - updated version numbers on templates to 3.6.9
2.10 - added securitytoken field to all forms

A Spanish translation can be found in post # 200 HERE

Install Instructions
Unzip and upload the wireless.css to your forum root.
Import the XML as a new style WITH NO PARENT.

Upgrade Instructions
Unzip and upload the wireless.css to your forum root (overwriet existing).
Import the XML and merge with existing. Alternatively you could delete the existing mobi style and re-upload fresh.

Keywords: Mobile, Cell, Portal, Mobi, Light, PDA, Phone

Screen Shots - Don;t be put off by the colours, these are all very easily changed by editing the CSS file. If you need help, just ask. I did these from a desktop browser with the window resized to 240px wide - to get a proper idea of the look, use the emulator link mentioned above. It looks MUCH better from an actualy small screen device!



How to hide a style from style chooser
This template edit will allow you to 'hide' a style from the Style Chooser so users can't select a specified style.

[tekguru]

Sounds good grabbing now

However I'm about to upgrade to 3.6.8 from 3.6.7PL1 - is the style compatible with 3.6.8 ?

[Lee A Burnett]

Wow, the new 2.06 is awesome! Thanks.

[dartho]

Originally Posted by tekguru

Sounds good grabbing now

However I'm about to upgrade to 3.6.8 from 3.6.7PL1 - is the style compatible with 3.6.8 ?

Shouldn't have any issues with 3.6.8

@Lee - glad you're liking it :up:

[tekguru]

Cheers for adviseing that it is okay for use with 3.6.8

Feedback from the guys is now looking very positive:

This is realy good!

Page numbers now showing Mostly and User CP much better.

And now to confirm, the Login page now works correctly!

Thanks to the developer for being so responsive.
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Looking really good from here over wifi, layout fits well on my Hermes, page numbers show ok. Pages load quickly. Roger over and out!

[dartho]

Excellent - any other requests/suggestions?

[tekguru]

Nothing yet!

[Smiry Kin's]

Feel free to use these real time images. taken about 3 minutes ago on a blackberry.

Regards.

[Mark Hewitt]

Brilliant skin, just what I was looking for

[dartho]

Glad you like it! Feel free to click "Mark as Installed"

As soon as this skin has no new suggestions/fixes etc for a week or two I'll mark it as no longer a Beta, and use it as a foundation for a skin aimed for more recent devices such as Windows Mobile devices, Blackberrys (and others as suggested) which uses drop downs, basic javascript etc...

So all feedback (positive and negative) is welcome in the mean time. If you've modified the CSS, feel free to upload if you want to share - the colour scheme has had more negative comments than anything else!

[Mark Hewitt]

One thing I did find. When you are in showthread, the link which carries the name of the current forum actually links to the parent forum of that forum, if you see what I mean..
So in many cases it would take you back to the main index, not the forumdisplay.

So where it had $foruminfo[parentid] I've changed it to $foruminfo[forumid] and now that works fine.

The only addition I think think of at the moment is when you click on the "Rep" button it would be good if that included the quoted text from the post, otherwise you might as well just use the quick reply at the bottom.