Great collection for inspiration!!!

Very nice article. Reminds us all that the footer doesn't have to be dull and boring.

Some great examples that will come in handy for my current re-design. Thanks.

thanks my footer will now be redesigned ;)

I do enjoy this transition to more creative footers. It enhances the user experience, but can also serve as a last pitch for someone about to leave the site.

Great post! I really like Nick's new design for N-Design Studio, especially the footer too. Great idea for having a search field in the bottom right. I need to add call-to-actions on my footer - it's the one thing that really needs work on my blog.

Cheers,
Robin

Really great post. A solid collection of helpful components all in one place...Nice!

Great footers.

Looks like you covered pretty much everything. The About section is a nice design touch. Great round up.

I'm working on two sites right now and I want interesting, useful, creative footers for both of them. This is a great starting point! Keep up the good work.

Looks like you have covered all the bases. Excellant job in getting the entire range of design ideas together. Well written.

Its always good to have types of payments on footnotes right?

Great examples, and inspiring.

amazing collection of footer design very inspiring please keep posting

Great post, very inspirational and will be looking to add something like these in the near future.

A footer should match the personality, design and branding of your site. Some really good examples above great post.

Great Post i like it.

Brilliant Post! This has really given me some inspiration to design more interesting and functional footers!

We have used some of the examples posted. But plenty of new once I see to be considered. Thanks for posting.

Don't stuff every listed suggestion in the footer or it can grow to be larger than the main content ;). Good ideas.

good and nice article

Footers have definately become a more interactive part of a web site and there are many good uses as mentioned in this article that have been found. I tend to try to keep forms out of the footer although most of the other aforementioned uses we have included at some point or other. Maybe we are seeing a more crammed footer because the whole design of header and body of web sites is now a more blog / US style with less elements (cleaner). We still need somewhere to put the other stuff and the footer can help with this.

Nice articles. Footers used to be a place where people dumped privacy, copyright notice, terms and conditions and so on... but since there are so many websites emerge every seconds, it makes sense to use every avenue available to make your website is more visible to either the search engine and the visitors. I personally think websites look nice with a thick footer compared to a boring thin footer :)

i really was not aware of these stuffs till
thanks for sharing
your site is worth bookmarking in my browser

I'm probably guilty of not thinking much past putting navigation links in the footer, its good to see a different perspective every once in a while!
Thats a good inspirational article...thanks

I've added a comment box to my website which is really useful although we should really get round to adding a captcha box because we do get horrible spam something which clogs up my inbox no end!

Great post, I have wanted to look at footer design and content in greater depth for some time. Generally when designing web sites we have stuck to the usual suspects and added contact info, email, copyright etc. Recently with ecommerce web designs we have added more navigation. As more and more new site designs seem to fill the footer with links I wonder whether it is starting to go to far and become a place where navigation that doesn’t fit up top is thrown in at the bottom because everyone else is doing it?

Very Very Help article. cover all type of possible footer design...

Thanks for inspiring examples :-)

It's a good article! There is so much you want to share in the footer that readability and usability is going down. For clients it is sometimes difficult to choose.

Thank you very much for sharing these great information. Well explained, and teach people about the in and out on the footer of a website.

Adding a creative element to a websites footer design is a great way to enhance the overall appeal of the website. It's also helps your viewers scroll through the whole website maximizing your exposure.

Some great ideas on how to incorporate the important footer information you need on each page.

Contact info on each is an important one in case the visitor prints out the page for future reference or to put in the need to call pile for their project.

Really cool post. I saw those all kind of footer before, but I never think about mine. Thanks this gotta be my inspiration to fill my new site footer's with better stuff.

I saw one on best CSS vault: http://www.bestcssvault.com/tropica-web-design/#respond

That was cool, it had a search and nice mouseovers in the footer etc...

Great footers, plenty of inspiration! Thanks Ted.

It's not a requirement, but I'm seeing more "Powered by" mentions in the footer. You can use this to state the CMS you're using or any other technology your Web site's built upon (ie Wordpress,AWS,etc).

Less is more. If possible don't have a footer!

I love footers. . . Its one of the best part if not the only part of a web page where you can splurge on the design as hard as you want. . . The header is one thing, its already given that it would have the logo and other stuff, but the footer is somewhat similar to the signature on a contract where you , as a designer would place your mark on. . .

Great article by the way

Really awesome post. Inspirational

Another useful and very comprehensive article, great work.

Thanks for that. Always good to get some inspiration for footer designs to stop them looking boring!