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Geek Trends: 15 Cool Website Footers with Great Usability

yample.com — Footers are becoming an essential strategy to engage visitors. Leaders in the industry are moving toward implementing effective footer features and creating a place for presenting, displaying and branding to their audiences in a very personal way by providing intuitive nature.

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  • inactive, on 01/06/2008, -5/+30We sure have come a long way from the black and yellow animated .gif with a workman saying "In Construction"
  • Mononuclear, on 01/06/2008, -0/+9Some of those footers were cool but I found many of them to be annoying and/or confusing. Some of them just look bad. What exactly makes these footers so great?
  • snapple112, on 01/06/2008, -1/+7MIRROR: http://cod4hosting.com/yample/geek-trends-15-foote ...

    Same content as on dead page :)
  • lcarsdeveloper, on 01/06/2008, -0/+6OK, so I'm a webmaster with several websites...is it just me or was this list very disappointing and dull? Digg's footer is designed for Digg only. The same should go for your own site. It should fit with your design, but don't add things to it for the sake of it.
    My site has the basics, a link to "About Us", "Privacy Policy", "Unsubscribe", "Advertising", "Site Map", "Help", "Media" and "Contact Us", in a single row of text separated by vertical lines. Under that I have a link to my RSS feeds and the copyrights below it. I'm not going to go all out designing something that most people will ignore.
  • thailand1972, on 01/06/2008, -0/+5More eye candy, and some seriously "fat" footers there. Why put your latest posts/comments to posts there for example? IMHO the footer should just reflect the top horizontal navigation so users don't need to scroll back to the top to navigate. Putting unique info there (such as listing latest posts / comments to posts) just means users have to keep scrolling down to the bottom of the page to navigate to it - this kind of DB content should be cached and placed in a column so users can access without scrolling to the bottom of every page.
  • restlessdesign, on 01/06/2008, -0/+4Meanwhile, Digg, with its extremely popular footer for comments, ignores the ENORMOUS potential for footer banner placement...
  • b.m.a.n, on 01/06/2008, -1/+4a thank yea
  • keef06, on 01/06/2008, -1/+4Mirror (kinda works):
    http://duggmirror.com/design/Geek_Trends_15_Cool_W ...
  • theaverageidiot, on 01/06/2008, -0/+3Digg killed it.
    Mirror?
  • thinkart, on 01/06/2008, -1/+4BECAUSE PEOPLE LIKE IT! Digg doesnt exist for only you? How about you do what everyone else does? Don't click on headlines that DO NOT interest you.
  • D3koy, on 01/06/2008, -0/+3Digg should auto-mirror anything submitted by wordpress...just saying
  • nubbler, on 01/06/2008, -0/+3Agreed, there was some that I realy liked but others are too full or confusing.
  • ewcost, on 01/06/2008, -0/+3What is so "great" about these footers. I've seen better.
  • Phlosten, on 01/06/2008, -0/+3Sounds like someone had an idea for an article and listed the first 15 websites he came across that were somewhere in the vicinity of maybe possibly having something to do with his idea. Buried as unexciting uselessness.
  • Rhuantavan, on 01/06/2008, -0/+3A nicely designed footer with proper content can surely improve the whole experience of using a web site. I really like the way sites are embracing and evolving the concept of the footer - what once only served as copyright space is now becoming an area of equal importance as the main content itself.
  • gettophilosophr, on 01/06/2008, -0/+3...though unfortunately not the footer. ;-)
  • falafelkiosken, on 01/06/2008, -0/+2or wordpress should write better code
  • MedHead, on 01/06/2008, -0/+2I thought this trend had died out. Way too much information at the bottom of the page. It feels almost like the designer didn't know how to end the page, or rather, didn't want to end it.
  • gettophilosophr, on 01/06/2008, -0/+2Yay for Biola! I used to do web design for parts of their website.
  • suxmonkey, on 01/06/2008, -1/+2This one seems to work ... http://duggmirror.com//design/Geek_Trends_15_Cool_ ...
  • timro, on 01/06/2008, -0/+1#2 looks like a recolored version of digg's footer to me
  • snapple112, on 01/06/2008, -3/+4Your 'caps locked' comment doesn't brighten the page any more either.
  • AvengeX, on 01/06/2008, -0/+1Time to call Intel again for a whole new "submitted from Wordpress" section... le sigh.
  • thailand1972, on 01/07/2008, -0/+1Equal importance? The most important info goes to the top of the page, such as a preamble summary of a long article, so I know what that article is about before I read it. "Equally important" info should not be buried to the bottom of the page. What if your page is very long (not great design, but say on a comments page you can't control the length of the page)? Also, the footer is GENERIC - it appears the same on all pages. This should only contain generic content, IMHO the basic navigation of the site.
  • mossiwo, on 01/06/2008, -2/+3Your empty profile isn't helping either.
  • igmuska, on 01/06/2008, -1/+2my face hurts
  • masaaki, on 01/07/2008, -0/+1If you remove all the fluff, it's just a same redundant materials. Yet since it looks new, viewers click on it and are forced back to the same content, with more fluff but organized differently.
  • creativetfh, on 01/06/2008, -1/+1site down...or just really slow?
  • 3amboo, on 01/06/2008, -4/+4digg should ban wordpress articles or wordpress should be digg compatible
  • snapple112, on 01/06/2008, -1/+1No problem at all :)
  • BassHead, on 01/06/2008, -1/+1What, static images saying "Beta". Yay progress... :-\
  • jggube, on 01/14/2008, -0/+0Footers definitely need to be used more than how most conventional websites currently use them (copyright information and redundant navigation which is outdated because they were once primarily for navigation made up of images) but some of these examples seem like they're putting unneeded content just for the sake of it.
  • ahbab, on 01/18/2009, -0/+0thanks
    http://www.ahba2b.com
    http://www.ahba2b.com/news
  • halil0310, on 01/06/2008, -3/+2I'm seeing more and more useful footer designs, a good way to use of the space available.
  • vonskippy, on 01/06/2008, -4/+3Why does NetCraft rate this lame ass host (SingleHop) as RED. No clue what it was trying to load - I dropped out after seeing the rating.
  • mossiwo, on 01/06/2008, -3/+2Can't agree more with you! 404 pages cool too http://tinyurl.com/2hvvc6
  • snapple112, on 01/06/2008, -3/+1Digg got this one good, not sure if I can get the source to mirror it :
  • Unreal595, on 01/06/2008, -9/+6WHY IS ALL THIS CRAP CROWDING THE MAIN PAGE OF DIGG!!!???? AAAARRRGHGHGHGHGHHH
  • mossiwo, on 01/06/2008, -10/+5Who thought content bellow the fold will look good? amazing how web design is evolving!

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