Welcome To My Website!
You've arrived at www.fieggen.com, the hobby website of Ian Fieggen (also known as "Professor Shoelace"). The site has now been on the Internet for sixteen years, and Sep-2014 saw the site's 30 millionth visit.
You can find out more about this website, or you can dive right in below:
Table of Contents
Fun, fashion & science in the Internet's #1 website about shoelaces. Whether you want to learn to lace shoes, tie shoelaces, stop shoelaces from coming undone, calculate shoelace lengths or even repair aglets, Ian's Shoelace Site has the answer!
This section contains various minimalist software programs that are tiny yet very powerful, in particular, the world's smallest, fastest and most efficient image optimization programs, JPGExtra and PNGExtra.
Having experimented with computer graphics since the very earliest days (over thirty years ago), I consider myself a "Pixeltech". This section gives some information and advice about computer graphics.
This is my own little part of the Internet, where I tell a little about myself and share some of my thoughts and ideas with the world. Don't mistake this for a "blog" - I rarely update this section.
This Internet-viewable genealogical tree of the Fieggen Family contains information on my Dutch, German and French ancestry back to the 1600's. To protect the privacy of living relatives, this section requires authorization (username and password) for access and is restricted to known family members only.
"Must See" Links
Tie your shoes in a split second with my "Ian Knot", the World's Fastest Shoelace Knot.
Check that you're not tying a "Granny Knot", which sits crooked and comes undone.