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.

[tambo]

I've got this running, but I was wondering if it is possible to move the lightweight.css.php file to another location, rather than root?

Would I have to edit something in the templates or xml file?

Why would I want to ask this? Not all Admins on our board have root access, but access to different parts of the server, based on their interests/expertise. It would be good to give the person responsible for styling access to the CSS file, without giving them root access.

EDIT: Never mind. I got it.

Use 'Replacement Variable Manager' in ACP.

Replace:

/lightweight.css.php

with

/folder/structure/of/your/choice/lightweight.css.php

...and then move the lightweight.css.php file to that location.

You'll then need to edit the CSS file 'Logo Image Location' to locate the logo image from root (as it's no longer relative). So, in my case:

/vb/images/misc/mobilelogo.png

...or wherever you want to put it. There's probably an easier way.

Great mod by the way. Very impressive.

[etca]

dear dartho,

how to fix this? my vbul. 4.1.12
1. on 4.1.12, clicking quote on mobile style wont include the quoted message.
2. empty page, there are no 1, 2, 3 ... . see the attachment.

[dartho]

I just updated my test site (vbdev.org) and have none of the problems reported above? Anyone else?

@Semprot - if you want to try and add reputation, the button code would be something like this:

<vb:if condition="$show['reputationlink']"><a id="btn" href="reputation.php?{vb:raw session.sessionurl}do=addreputation&amp;p={vb:raw post.postid}" title="{vb:rawphrase add_reputation}" rel="nofollow" id="reputation_{vb:raw post.postid}">Rep</a></vb:if>

[Alan_SP]

Originally Posted by semprot

if i upload lightweight style as normal style (i didnt select mobile as parent), quote is working, but it wont appear on "Style & Language Settings" >> "Default Style for Old Mobile Browsers"

You could use https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/showthread.php?t=249339, I have it installed and there you could set this style as default.

I tested it on computer, not mobile phone, so I'm not sure that this style will actually get selected for mobile devices.

[Bounce]

Originally Posted by semprot

More update :

• if i upload lightweight style as normal style (i didnt select mobile as parent), quote is working, but it wont appear on "Style & Language Settings" >> "Default Style for Old Mobile Browsers"
• If i upload it as mobile style, quote is not working, but it will appear on "Style & Language Settings" >> "Default Style for Old Mobile Browsers".

Yip, quotes dont work if style is parent of mobile styles default

does work if it has no parent.
:up:

[Bounce]

cancel that, i still dont have this working

[Alan_SP]

Strange. I installed as new style, after that I deleted old one. Quoting works for me, only I changed phrase from reply to reply_with_quote (postbit_legacy).

I didn't noticed problems so far, but it's still too early to tell for sure that there are no problems.

[etca]

Originally Posted by semprot

still having problem with quote?
I suggest you to delete old lightweight style & re-add it with non-mobile no-parent.

thx. solved on my prob

[The Rocketeer]

Hi, I think we are finally ready to move on to the default vBulletin theme, But before that I wanted to share the vB CMS Article pages, I saved these two files, AFAIK this worked well with our CMS and should work with your too.

All the best and thanks for the Style and effort. :up:

[djbaxter]

I have the vB Mobile Style as default in 4.1.12 PL1.

However, at least one member is expressing an option to use this mobile style instead.

Two questions:

1. If I add this as a mobile style it shows a number of uncached templates. How can I fix this? (If I add it as a new full style, the templates are cached but that seems like it would be confusing to users.)

2. There seems to be no way to make this the default mobile style now that the vB Mobile Style is installed, and in either this mobile style or the vB Default Mobile Style, there seems to be no way to choose an alternate mobile style - just mobile or full forum default style. How can I add this as an option?