The following two introduction passages are completely independent and lead to the same conclusion. You can choose one or read it all. You can also skip the reading and enjoy the sight of a Monty Python’s foot.

Intro number two: your web page is a little piece of you. It has a head (header), a body and a foot (footer)! Nobody knows why these little extensions of ourselves have only one foot. Really!

Intro number one: once upon a time there was a very important letter. It was not much different than other important documents around the world. It had a footer! This meant there was only one foot and basicaly no walking or running capacity. It was entirely dependent on a postal service. To cut the story short, there was no happy ending! This letter was lost in mail. Maybe one day, in 40 years somebody will receive this long lost letter and the big secret will finally be revealed. Mario will find his daughter that was put to adoption by a clerical error. He spent his life hoping and praying and it finally came true. The power of love!

Let’s continue.

The other day I was putting together the images for header and “footer” that you can now see on this website.

The idea is very simple, head + er = header. While I was doing the footer I first put two feet in the picture and then realized that it would be wrong to put two feet in a footer, it was not a feeter. How can that be true? How does a document get from A to B without having both feet? I did not come up with a concept of feet in documents. I just realized this concept was faulty with one outstanding foot that nobody cared about except me!

How do you expect your documents to stand, walk, run and get to the point with just one foot? Everybody knows that you need at least two feet. Thus, footer is to become feeter because it travels better.

I am starting the Feeter Revolution and you can join or support me. I would be happy if people joined to change this foot injustice. Save the outstanding foot! I am putting two proud feet in my feeter to start the feet revolution in web design.

Web pages usually come with two feet. Sometimes an accident happens or a page goes to war and it may be left footless or the page is so old it needs more than two feet for walking. I am not talking about these cases that are clearly exceptions to the two feet rule.

Thank You!

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