Minimalistic template

[parksie]

Does anyone have any minimal templates for vB? I'm a regular on VB-World (www.vbforums.com) and with 6 browser windows over 56K it blocks up pretty quickly :( Anyone who's been in Chit Chat over there will notice that it might as well be a realtime IRC channel :D

Anyway, is there any way to really cut the page size down? Has anyone done this before? John's not been online (or he's blocked me on ICQ :p) for a while so I'm asking here instead.

[mjames]

Well, two things to double-check are making sure gzip is installed and working and use this tip from Kier (http://www.vbulletin.com/forum/showthread.php?s=&threadid=17943). :)

[samtha25]

vbforums looks to me like they are using a stripped down version of vBulletin as is. They appear to have gotten rid of at least one layer of the nested tables.

I would like to support, though, the idea of providing a minimal set of styles, as vBulletin's default set is so customized to this particular look. If you want anything much different, for example, to not use the page-on-a-page look, a lot of deleting of markup is needed. I'd rather build up from something more generic.

BTW, if you used Opera as your browser, you could click a button and switch to own minimalist style sheet. Comes in very handy. I get a very plain but completely functional rendering of those forums with my three line user styles sheet. :) Add to that another click of a button to only reload images from cache and the site is downright speedy.

[parksie]

Well, if it's stripped down from the norm then it looks like some of my prodding over ICQ got John to listen :) He normally ignores me because I'm an idiot and I like causing trouble on his forums...