Three Year Anniversary
This month is very special for us. It marks our third year of being part of the foot fetish community! We would like to thank the many of you who have been with us since day one. Yeah, you remember day one. For those of you who don't let me take you on a trip down memory lane.
Our first Planet of the Arche site was extremely amateurish in design. The homepage had a pencil drawing of a high-arched foot on a pedestal. That foot was a combination of Brittney Skye's feet mixed with the foot of a Leg Show magazine model. Yours truly drew that foot. The idea came from a friend of mine in Seattle whom I met online. I came up with the foot, and he came up with the pedestal. The site was designed in Frontpage, and used the Frontpage photo gallery feature for the pictures. Speaking of pictures, they were all 5.4 megabyte monsters because I knew nothing about optimization. Oh yeah, we didn't have a decent image editor, just Photo Impression, a program that included on a CD that came with our first HP scanner (HP 4470 followed by a HP 5470c). There was another reason the files were that large, the images came from CDs that CVS made when it converted our 35mm negatives into "digital" images. I had no idea CVS's lab scanned the negatives to CD. The prints came out great, but the scanned images were less than stellar. It degraded the quality, henceforth the initial quality fans saw.
The site had video, believe it, or not. All video came from a 1.3 megapixel StyleCam Pro camera. It recorded in .avi format without sound. It would record as long as the battery power held and as long as there was memory on the secure digital memory card. Originally, we only used a 32 megabyte card. Later, we upgraded to 64. Clip lengths ranged from a few seconds to close to a minute. Wanting to get in on the membership system, we used Paypal for subscriptions and billing. Later, Paypal deemed the site "adult", stopped processing, and froze those funds for 180 days. That was OK. The site had a large fan base, and fans knew they could easily reach the site owner.
We moved the site to BHE, got a cool redesign, and continued to progress. Later, we obtained an image editing program, upgraded to a digital camera and camcorder. The next site we started was Biker Girls Feet. In theory, the idea was good, but the site never took off. Our next site, King of the Heel, had everything Planet of the Arches offered, plus a lot more. It started slowly, and soon held its own. A new idea came to mind, and soon, Workout Girls Feet came forth. That site was a hit from the start. Eventually, we redesigned Planet of the Arches, and moved it to the same server as King of the Heel and Workout Girls Feet. So the series was complete. It was the perfect trilogy, reminiscent of Star Wars. As George Lucas did, we eventually remade all three sites, so check the changes when you can.
Although its been three years, much to learn we still have. Thank you for being our fans. May the Foot be with you...always.
Our first Planet of the Arche site was extremely amateurish in design. The homepage had a pencil drawing of a high-arched foot on a pedestal. That foot was a combination of Brittney Skye's feet mixed with the foot of a Leg Show magazine model. Yours truly drew that foot. The idea came from a friend of mine in Seattle whom I met online. I came up with the foot, and he came up with the pedestal. The site was designed in Frontpage, and used the Frontpage photo gallery feature for the pictures. Speaking of pictures, they were all 5.4 megabyte monsters because I knew nothing about optimization. Oh yeah, we didn't have a decent image editor, just Photo Impression, a program that included on a CD that came with our first HP scanner (HP 4470 followed by a HP 5470c). There was another reason the files were that large, the images came from CDs that CVS made when it converted our 35mm negatives into "digital" images. I had no idea CVS's lab scanned the negatives to CD. The prints came out great, but the scanned images were less than stellar. It degraded the quality, henceforth the initial quality fans saw.
The site had video, believe it, or not. All video came from a 1.3 megapixel StyleCam Pro camera. It recorded in .avi format without sound. It would record as long as the battery power held and as long as there was memory on the secure digital memory card. Originally, we only used a 32 megabyte card. Later, we upgraded to 64. Clip lengths ranged from a few seconds to close to a minute. Wanting to get in on the membership system, we used Paypal for subscriptions and billing. Later, Paypal deemed the site "adult", stopped processing, and froze those funds for 180 days. That was OK. The site had a large fan base, and fans knew they could easily reach the site owner.
We moved the site to BHE, got a cool redesign, and continued to progress. Later, we obtained an image editing program, upgraded to a digital camera and camcorder. The next site we started was Biker Girls Feet. In theory, the idea was good, but the site never took off. Our next site, King of the Heel, had everything Planet of the Arches offered, plus a lot more. It started slowly, and soon held its own. A new idea came to mind, and soon, Workout Girls Feet came forth. That site was a hit from the start. Eventually, we redesigned Planet of the Arches, and moved it to the same server as King of the Heel and Workout Girls Feet. So the series was complete. It was the perfect trilogy, reminiscent of Star Wars. As George Lucas did, we eventually remade all three sites, so check the changes when you can.
Although its been three years, much to learn we still have. Thank you for being our fans. May the Foot be with you...always.
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