For colors we were thinking of going with puce, olive drab, pink, and turquoise but it was a bit too California.
It's blisteringly fast because the forum is sitting on a dedicated server all by itself. More money, but because this is the heart and soul of the online OCF experience, deemed a necessity. Note the address at the top, there has not even been time to to alter things. One of the weird things about the internet is the illusion of the experience. Your on the OCF servers in Toronto, you decide to buy something, you don't likely notice it, but you leave the main site in Canada and you go to ocfstore.org a completely different web domain that we own. That server in California has security protocols that the main site server does not have. The trip is seamless, except for the astute who notice the url. Ditto now the web site forum. While you can jump back and forth between the main site and here, you are jumping to a completely different url and site ocfforum.org (right now represented by numbers) thousands of miles away from the main site.
What you should understand about this. It is secure, and safe here.
But this very theory is used by the dark side of people to hurt you. Phishing. You get an email from Paypal, your bank, or what ever. It's on what appears to be their page, with their logos and everything. It has the right fonts, the right language, and for all practical purposes you can't tell that it is anyone else. It says you need to change your password, and please click on this link, to go to the place to do so. The link actually says your banks name. But that isn't where the link takes you - if you are not paying attention to the urls etc. You get there, enter your information, and bam... some Nigerian has your account number and password and cleans out your account. Maybe even looks for other accounts of yours that you manage on line. You have just screwed the pooch in pilot talk. No turning back. Where you think you are, you may not be. Learn about phishing and other internet scams to protect yourself. The world is not a safe place, even if you never step out of your front door.
