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...

Test °æ  "help"


yep...Handled em all.

Great about the truncated posts. Are certain characters and strings modified or deleted before passing onto the database? That was my original impression of why posts ware truncated. But, of course, I have no insight into this site's backend.

I suspect you're an IT guy. I just like to dabble in things. Glad this site has great administrative support.

Some characters are now straight up supported, like the degrees° symbol.

Others get swapped, like curly quotes.

Patriot does a good job of keeping us patched.  I don't know his IT background. 

I am a database architect, but have also worked as a software dev and done a fair bit of sysadmin work in my teams development lab environment. Plus troubleshooting over the year.

I did some computer training in my early days of the Navy when they sent me to Radioman school. Radioman have now become the Navy's IT people. So I picked up some basic code writing which helps on the inner workings of this site's programming. I can do basic stuff, and know my way around Photoshop which helps too. The good thing about SMF software is that there are tons of people making mods and are willing to share their secrets. So that helps.

Quote from: sqlbullet on October 03 2014 03:37:55 PM MDT
Norma theme?

I'm liking this! Some member firearm pictures somewhere in the mix would be nice too!

My suggestion would be to "grey it down" a little bit to match the background. Then throw some bullet holes in it and it will be good to go! 

I have to say;
I do like the new Handle   

And I'm only 9,331 posts away