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.

[Bounce]

some nice features in the newer version dartho,

how do I add a "PM" button, next to edit etc?

[Bounce]

also the "whats going on" section is missing now, and how do i remove the adverts

[Hippy]

Originally Posted by Bounce

also the "whats going on" section is missing now, and how do i remove the adverts

search the thread your answer is in here not to far back or add the addon posted in the first post

[dartho]

Originally Posted by Bounce

also the "whats going on" section is missing now, and how do i remove the adverts

There shouldn't be any ads and the what's going on should be working in the latest version. Ads were left in by mistake and an updated version with them removed was uploaded within an hour or so (as soon as I found out). The whats going on box should also work in the latest version?

[autoescala]

Today, I test the premium mobile style included in the new release 4.1.11 of VB, i don't like!!! Its ugly and heavy load on Android Galaxy S versus dartho light skin, I prefer the dartho style.

The only thing I don't know how to change is the underline style of the text in this skin, it would be more beautyful if you improve a lite the boxes when u are inside a sub-forum.

Some similar like this: http://www.bowlandcentral.com/forum/...hp?styleid=167

this custom style based on your work, is very very nice....

[Bounce]

Originally Posted by dartho

There shouldn't be any ads and the what's going on should be working in the latest version. Ads were left in by mistake and an updated version with them removed was uploaded within an hour or so (as soon as I found out). The whats going on box should also work in the latest version?

thanks mate, any thoughts on post 826
https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/showpost....&postcount=826

[dartho]

Where did you want the PM button - next to the edit, reply buttons on postbit?

[Hippy]

I would like to add a post thank..
what code would you need to see from that mod ?
thanks

[dartho]

See this post for Abe1's Post Thanks Hack integration: https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/showthrea...43#post2305643

[s]
This probably needs a bit of tweaking, but here goes:

edit post_thanks_box template in the lightweight style and replace contents with:

<div class="windowbg" id="post_thanks_box_$post[postid]">$post_thanks_box</div>

edit post_thanks_button template in lightweight style and replace contents with:

<a id="btn" href="post_thanks.php?$session[sessionurl]do=post_thanks_add&amp;p=$post[postid]&amp;securitytoken=$bbuserinfo[securitytoken]" id="post_thanks_button_$post[postid]"<if condition="$vboptions[disable_ajax] != 2"> onclick="return post_thanks_give($post[postid], <if condition="$vboptions[post_groan_integrate]">true<else />false</if>);"</if> <if condition="$display_thanks_image == 'none'">style="display:none"</if> rel="nofollow">Thanks</a>

edit post_thanks_postbit template in the lightweight style and replace contents with:

<if condition="$post['post_thanks_amount'] == 1">
	<phrase 1="$post[username]">$vbphrase[post_thanks_user_says]</phrase>
<else />
	<phrase 1="$post[post_thanks_amount_formatted]" 2="$post[username]">$vbphrase[post_thanks_users_say]</phrase></if>

$post[post_thanks_bit]

edit postbit and postbit_legacy templates in lightweight style , search for

<img src="$stylevar[imgdir_misc]/moderated_small.gif" alt="$vbphrase[moderated_post]" border="0" />
</if>
</div>
</if>

and replace with

<img src="$stylevar[imgdir_misc]/moderated_small.gif" alt="$vbphrase[moderated_post]" border="0" />
</if>
$template_hook[postbit_controls]
</div>
</if>
$template_hook[postbit_end]

I think that should just about do it - assuming it is this hack: https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/showthread.php?t=165673 that you have installed

caveat: this may introduce other hacks into the lightweight style which use the postbit_end and postbit_control hooks
[/s]

[Hippy]

yep will test it out in the am .. thanks for your time dartho