UBB mobile style upgrade

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Laanders
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UBB mobile style upgrade

Post by Laanders » Jan 22nd 2013 22:58

The default style for mobile devices has been upgraded, or more accurately replaced. The old style was outdated, lacking in features and generally not too practical to use. The new one is a lightly customized (recoloured) version of the Artodia Mobile & SEO style which offers improvements in the form of a more easily navigable interface, and such previously missing features (in the mobile style) as access to private messages and the User Control Panel. It also, in the administrator's opinion, looks a damn sight nicer.

It might be worth pointing out that the new style has a lot of options and features placed inside menus. For example, to find the invaluable "view new posts" page, look inside the search menu (magnifying glass icon.) To flip to the next page of a thread, use the "#" menu. The advantage to this approach is it avoids having to place a lot of tiny links all over a page where they would be difficult to find (and click) on a touchscreen device.

The new style should load automatically on any detected mobile device. Additionally, anyone wanting to try out the style on their PC can do so by going to their User Control Panel and selecting "Artodia: Mobile and SEO (TRv1)" (or similar, upgrades may happen) on the Board Preferences page. (In order to change back afterwards, the User Control Panel is found under the settings menu - "gear" icon. Thereafter Board Preferences is in the Overview menu.)

In order to help us evaluate the new style, please give constructive feedback in this thread.

Thanks, and enjoy.
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