: How does the option work?

: It's actually pretty self-explanatory. To find the active icon shown in this post, go to either the top or bottom of the various topics on any given page, and you'll see it listed along with other options located in the .

Click/tap the icon, and you'll be given two options. One option is to use your default email program, which will automatically load. The other option is to use the email program of this forum.

If you're unsure about this, give it a try using your own email address as the recipient so that you can see firsthand how it works without bothering anybody else.

Question: How do I post a YouTube Video?

:

1. Copy the url of the YouTube video you want to showcase. This will show in the address bar.

      Example: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BGNouMFr070

2. In between the Insert Media tag, shown here , paste the url without the s on the end (https).

      Example: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BGNouMFr070

That's it!

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Additional Options:

Additional Option 1. Adding &hd=1 at the end of the video's url will enable the video to play in high definition.

      Example: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BGNouMFr070&hd=1

Additional Option 2. Adding width=600 after the 1st media tag will widen your video to the width of your choice. As such, the 1st media tag in its entirity would be [media width=600] to enable the video width you see below.

: Click/tap the icon above for this post to see the actual coding that enables the YouTube video that's shown below.

: "Live Preview" won't show the proper result. However, "Preview" will. 

This is an actual example/result of the instructions above:

Note

: To see this video in its largest size, click/tap the little
YouTube icon above to see it in a new window on YouTube. 

To enable this video in a higher definition, click/tap the tool icon above after it's loaded to play.

Question: How did Great Feet get started?

:

Back in the early years of the Internet exploding around us (about 1996-97), those were the days when a core group of us chatted things up on a BBS (Bulletin Board System), and exchanged foot fetish material via e-mail (with 16 phone lines in one guy's apartment). That group was into bondage fun as well, but those of us with a foot fetish decided to centralize things by posting our material on a personal web page of mine. Much to our surprise, however, the visitors to our site grew so rapidly that it overwhelmed the personal page I used, which adversely affected my IP (Internet Provider). Luckily, they were cool about it, so they kind of looked the other way.

Still, it wasn't fair to tax their server so heavily, so I voluntarily moved over to a shared server when I got our domain. Even then, we overloaded various shared servers. Our solution back then was to reference all of our contributions on our site, but have them hosted on a number of different contributors' sites, most of which were hosted by Geocities. Of course, being that our site was classified as "adult" and often displayed nudity, Geocities routinely deleted the accounts of our contributors, which ended up causing a lot of problems for me to manage.

Coincidentally, Geocities, which was taken over by Yahoo some time ago, was shut down for good on October 26, 2009.

In any case, Geocities was closing down sites so quickly, and in such large numbers, it just didn't make sense anymore for me to manage all of the images the way I was with so many different webmasters. That's when I decided to host all of our contributors' foot fetish material myself. For a while, I did this on shared servers, but in every instance our site overwhelmed the server we were on, so it caused problems. I eventually had to put the site on our own server. Even then, web hosts often had difficulty keeping the site on-line without any downtime. It took a while before I found a company that could handle all of our site's activities. I've been with them since May of 2003, so hopefully they'll keep going strong.

Question: Can I search for a particular contributor's photos?

: Yes. Just go to our site's search engine page, and take it from there. That page is located at the following address:

http://www.greatfeet.com/search/

Question: How do I stop automatic typing in my address bar?

:

1. Click start ... probably in the lower left hand corner of your screen.

2. Click Control Panel.

3. Double-click Internet Options.

4. Click Content.

5. Click Auto Complete ....

6. Uncheck the box that says Web addresses.

That should do it. You'll still have to clear your history from time to time, or every time to keep our site out of the list of sites that have been visited.

It should be noted that if you use another browser such as Firefox or Netscape, you'll probably need to clear your history by using the tools in the respective browser that you use.

If you use AOL or Hotmail as your official e-mail contact to access our chat forum, whether you keep it hidden from the public or not, you may very well have problems receiving automated replies from this forum when you request them.

Confirmation messages from us to let you know we've received your photos may get bounced as well. Both AOL and Hotmail are often too aggressive in their spam controls, and therefore bounce legitimate messages.

: AOL users, check your spam folder. Hotmail users, check your junk folder. Keep in mind that a bounced message may not show. As such, you may want to try the following:



:

1. Check your spam settings.

2. If needed, include gfwebmaster@greatfeet.com in your contact list.



:

1. Click Options

2. Click More options

3. Click Safe and blocked senders

4. Click Safe senders

5. In the Sender or domain to mark as safe text box, type gfwebmaster@greatfeet.com and then click the Add to list button. We should now be inlcuded in your Safe senders and domains text box.

Whenever someone signs up to join our free chat forum, or whenever a person requests that their password be resent to them, an automated reply is immediately generated, and sent by our e-mail server. Both AOL and Hotmail do not always handle these requests properly. Simply put, this means that our automated reply will not be received by you.

If the information above doesn't help, send an e-mail to Bill at gfwebmaster@greatfeet.com and further help will be attempted.

P.S. Keep in mind that with a good working e-mail address, even if you choose to use the default setting of keeping your address hidden from the public, you will of course be able to immediately obtain your password information automatically 24/7. You will also have no problems using our chat forum's automated notification service to let you know when new posts are made to a topic of interest to you.

: Because we are a popular site with a lot of traffic, you may find that our e-mail address is being phished. Simply put, this means that it may appear we have sent you a message when in fact we have not. This is usually pretty obvious.

Keep in mind that we never send unsolicited messages. Not for marketing purposes. Not for anything. The only time you will be getting a message from us will be as follows:

1. Confirmation messages will be sent when you send photos, video clips, or stories to our site.

2. A reply will be sent to you if you send us a message.

3.  You will receive an automated message whenever you request your user name and/or your password.

4. Whenever you choose to be notified of new posts in our chat forum, you will receive automated messages if you edit your control panel settings (User CP) to do this.

So if you are not expecting a message from us, then you can be certain that the message you see with our address is spam. Feel free to ignore it. In fact, we urge you to ignore it.

Question: I've forgotten my username, so I'm really stuck! How can I retrieve my username?

Answer

: You don't actually need your username to access your account. However, you can find out what it is by using your e-mail address on our Password Reset page.

Simply follow these instructions:

1. Click/tap Password Reset on the menu at the top of the chat forum page (or click/tap the highlighted text to the left).

2. Type your Email address in the box. You may have to scroll down a bit to see the box.

3. Type the Verification code that's provided for you in the box (

but not with the first two or last two characters as instructed

).

4. Click the send button.

5. Follow the instructions provided in the e-mail that will have been sent to you.

That's it.

Remember that the password reminder page is really meant to reset a password when it's been forgotten. But that's okay since you will then have complete access to your user control panel (known on-line as the "User CP" at the top of the page). It will be at this time that you can choose a password of your choice.

If you have any further questions, please feel free to contact me at gfwebmaster@greatfeet.com and I will be happy to help.

: If you use AOL or Yahoo, unfortunately but both AOL and Yahoo email servers do not deliver all email that is sent to you. This includes registration information that is automatically sent from forums. But there's no need to be overly concerned. You can simply contact Bill at gfwebmaster@greatfeet.com to get help, and he'll get you going again in a timely fashion.

Question: I've been told that Yahoo tracks where you go on the Internet if you access their Yahoo Groups. Is this true?

: Yes, this is true, but you have the ability to opt out of this invasion of privacy if you so choose. Yahoo's tracking is surely harmless, and only meant to be a tool to better serve its users, but again, you have a choice to opt out if you want. For more details about this, read the following:

Quote:


: If you use different browsers as I do while surfing the Net, keep in mind that the option to "opt out" of Yahoo's tracking is specific with each browser. This would mean that if you have different people using your computer, and most probably using their own browser's settings based on their own preferences, you would need to opt out of each user's browser if you don't want Yahoo tracking all of the places you visit on the Net. This also applies even if you are the only person using your computer if, like me, you use both Internet Explorer and Netscape to surf the Net.