First of all, I changed my screen name. I wanted something a little happier than Grim Reaper.

Second, I'm going to be working on the website a bit, tinkering with the layout and colors, and possibly coming up with a new logo. Our current logo was designed and created by my ex girlfriend, and she has asked that I stop using it once I find a replacement logo. 

Third, I have attached a photo of the way our post count ranking works. You will see that anyone that reaches 10,000 posts will become a Life Member. A Life Member will be considered part of the staff and have some minor moderator abilities like deleting inappropriate posts or moving a thread to it's proper location. Obviously anyone that makes it to 10,000 posts would have proven themselves worthy of that level of access.

Thank you everyone for making this the best forum on the web.

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I'm only 5000 away! 



My bonus Daughter does graphic designs. I can ask her to take a look if you have certain ideas you want to incorporate.

Gulp.......not looking good for me.....

But on the other hand.....I have something to 'shoot' towards. 

Norma theme?

Opening a thread for Logo Submissions?

Quote from: Pinsnscrews on October 03 2014 03:42:56 PM MDT
Opening a thread for Logo Submissions?

It would be fun but they're are too many legal issues. No way to guarantee that someone's submission didn't use copyrighted material. Don't want someone coming after me.

Quote from: Patriot on October 03 2014 10:06:38 AM MDT

Second, I'm going to be working on the website a bit, tinkering with the layout and colors, and possibly coming up with a new logo. Our current logo was designed and created by my ex girlfriend, and she has asked that I stop using it once I find a replacement logo. 

I like the current one!!!!

Tell her she did a great job with it and there is a forum member that will pay $100 for the forum to have the rights to use it for life!

Greg

Thanks for the clarification. I saw a post today under your 'new' name and thought who the ____ is that? At my age I have to consider dementia.  Sorry about the relationship problems after the move and all. It's your 'house', do what you think is needed.

Quote from: EdMc on October 03 2014 07:51:03 PM MDT
Thanks for the clarification. I saw a post today under your 'new' name and thought who the ____ is that? At my age I have to consider dementia.  Sorry about the relationship problems after the move and all. It's your 'house', do what you think is needed.

Sorry, I should have been clearer. The woman that made the logo is not my current girlfriend. We broke up shortly after she designed it a few years ago. I'm very happy with my current girlfriend, and we just had a baby and got engaged.

Well, in that case I think congratulations are in order. Congratulations on your recent fatherhood and upcoming marriage.

Congrats on the child and the engagement!

Looking forward to a new look..

Quote from: Patriot on October 03 2014 09:17:44 PM MDT

Quote from: EdMc on October 03 2014 07:51:03 PM MDT
Thanks for the clarification. I saw a post today under your 'new' name and thought who the ____ is that? At my age I have to consider dementia.  Sorry about the relationship problems after the move and all. It's your 'house', do what you think is needed.

Sorry, I should have been clearer. The woman that made the logo is not my current girlfriend. We broke up shortly after she designed it a few years ago. I'm very happy with my current girlfriend, and we just had a baby and got engaged.

Double Congrats!!!

Get the new lil Patriot a NAA 22 mag for the crib! 

I will be looking forward to what you come up with...

Love is having them sign a "Work for hire" agreement. 

You should be able to make a logo. 'gimp' is a free "photoshop"-like program.  http://www.morguefile.com/archive has license-free photos. One might make a decent background for the logo. You can use  'gimp'  to add text and merge other images like bullet holes and 10mm pistols. Logos are nice, but the content here makes the site.

Two other suggestions:

1) Posts are truncated if "bad" characters are included. But, the user does not see that when the post is previewed.  My main suggestion is to map bad characters into something like  an underscore   ( _ ) or some other benign character rather than truncation the post at first encounter. (Don't map them to spaces. Bad guys can take advantage of that..)

2) To spend your money  how about going to SSL for the site. i.e.  https://10mm-firearms.com 

The cost is annual fees for a SSL certificate. Helps with privacy.   And protects our login credentials. Without this, our login user ID and password are passed through the 'net as clear text.

I think all firearms related sites (any site involved in freedom) should use SSL. One example I ran across is https://www.okshooters.com
It's a start. Unfortunately, the site designer was not aware one must encrypt all sections of all pages.

Only suggestions. Things work as they are. Thanks for the site.

SSL on the cheap:

https://www.namecheap.com/security/ssl-certificates/comodo.aspx

About $8 a year for a cert.  That is really about as cheap as you can go for decent service.  There are some free providers out there, but they all have issues from time to time.

Harrygunner, I think the special character thing has been fixed for some time...

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