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.

[nnjj.net]

installed

[dartho]

Originally Posted by Mark Hewitt

Some thoughts after using it for a few days..

It's difficult to keep track of latest posts. When forums have new posts they have a green background, my suggestion is to extend this into the forumdisplay, when a thread has new posts, it has a green background.

Additionally, for the posts themselves, the header bar with the username, that should have a green background when it's a new post.

Also it doesn't seem to jump to the latest post the way it does on the full version. I don't know if that's a limitation of the skin or my phone.

PS You can find my forums at http://m.motorsportforum.com/

I can extend the highlighting of new threads when they have new posts, but this doesn't *appear* to extend to being able to do the same with new posts with in a thread.

I think I have the jumping to the latest post sorted now too - as of the next re4lease, it should jump to the newest post, currently it jumps to the page of the newest post.

Thanks for the feedback - when I release (which may not be real soon), you'll get an update notification :up:

[tekguru]

Sounding good - keep up the good work

[Mark Hewitt]

Originally Posted by dartho

I can extend the highlighting of new threads when they have new posts, but this doesn't *appear* to extend to being able to do the same with new posts with in a thread.

I've had a quick look and they turned out both to be pretty straightforward with just an addition of a template conditional, so I've implemented it on my board.

Here is the code, feel free to use it in an upcoming release

POSTBIT:

<if condition="$post[statustitle] == 'Old'">
<div class="windowbg2">
<else />
<div class="new">
</if>

$post[username] $post[posttime] $post[postdate]
</div>
<div class="windowbg">$post[message]
<if condition="$post['editlink']"><a href="$post[editlink]">[Ed]</a></if>
<if condition="$post['replylink']"><a href="$post[replylink]">[Rep]</a></if>
<if condition="$show['reportlink']"><a href="report.php?$session[sessionurl]p=$post[postid]" rel="nofollow">[!!]</a> </if>

</div>

=========================

THEADBIT:

<if condition="$show['sticky']">
<div class="sticky">Sticky:
<a href="showthread.php?$session[sessionurl]goto=newpost&amp;t=$thread[threadid]"><strong>$thread[threadtitle]</strong></a>
<br />
by $thread[lastposter]: $thread[lastposttime] $thread[lastpostdate] </div>
<else />
<if condition="$show['gotonewpost']">
<div class="new">
<a href="showthread.php?$session[sessionurl]goto=newpost&amp;t=$thread[threadid]"><strong>>></a>
<else />
<div class="windowbg2">
</if>
<a href="showthread.php?$session[sessionurl]t=$thread[threadid]">$thread[threadtitle]</strong></a>
<if condition="$thread['pagenav']">$stylevar[dirmark]<span class="smallfont" style="white-space:nowrap">( $thread[pagenav]<if condition="$show[pagenavmore]"> ... <a href="showthread.php?$session[sessionurl]t=$thread[threadid]&amp;page=$thread[totalpages]$thread[highlight]">$vbphrase[last_page]</a></if>)</span></if>
<if condition="$show['deletethread']">
 <a href="postings.php?$session[sessionurl]do=deletethread&t=$thread[threadid]">[X]</a></if>
</div>
<div class="windowbg">
$thread[lastposter]$thread[lastposttime] $thread[lastpostdate]
$thread[replycount]
</div>
</if>

[Chadi]

I just installed this and it appears to conflict with vbseo, or so it seems. Some forums show up as "page not found" yet they all work fine in the default vb theme for me. Can someone confirm this?

[tekguru]

No such problems here, working in conjunction well for me.

[dartho]

It does appear to work fine on other vbseo sites. You seem to have a bunch of other plugins - I'd suggest disabling installed products one ata time and see which one is getting in the way...

[dartho]

Originally Posted by peterbabiy

I was just wondering when I go to a specific forum from your wap template that I installed, can I make the threads not in bold but only the ones that have new posts in them to be bold?

If so can u plz help me out. Im a real beginner so I'll need it real simple. If I need a code to paste somewhere can u show me which one and where to paste it?

Not real sure - I don't do any bolding myself, however you could use the code by Mark above to highlight new posts differently...

[peterbabiy]

I think this is the best wap theme I've ever seen. Its simple and easy to use. Love it and thank you so much. I do have a few suggestions thou. I think if you made the forums 2 or 3 spaces forward and kept the titles as they are it would seperate the title from the forums a lot. Here's what I mean

This is the title
--- This is the forum
--- This is another forum
This the title
--- This is another forum.

See what I mean? It would make the titles and the forums stand out a lot more which would make the whole browsing much easier.

And one more thing. As it was mentioned before about the new posts. If maybe you could keep the threads with no new posts regular font and the threads that do have new posts to be in bold. I think it would be the greatest thing ever.

Ow and ps. Is there a way to change the link color of the forums or threads? Cause when I'd try changing it in css it would not make any difference.

Thank you sir!

[ShackMaster]

Originally Posted by peterbabiy

I think this is the best wap theme I've ever seen. Its simple and easy to use. Love it and thank you so much. I do have a few suggestions thou. I think if you made the forums 2 or 3 spaces forward and kept the titles as they are it would seperate the title from the forums a lot. Here's what I mean

This is the title
--- This is the forum
--- This is another forum
This the title
--- This is another forum.

See what I mean? It would make the titles and the forums stand out a lot more which would make the whole browsing much easier.

And one more thing. As it was mentioned before about the new posts. If maybe you could keep the threads with no new posts regular font and the threads that do have new posts to be in bold. I think it would be the greatest thing ever.

Ow and ps. Is there a way to change the link color of the forums or threads? Cause when I'd try changing it in css it would not make any difference.

Thank you sir!

Excellent idea...