CSS-Based Footers: Modern Solutions
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Every design element deserves particular attention in Web 2.0. Navigation menus, forms, comment forms, comment designs, tables, typography, fonts, even more fonts and even download buttons are designed in more detail to make a good first impression. The smallest things can make a big difference – one of those smallest things are footers, used to visually close the content of a page; however, as you’ll see below, sometimes they also have some more functions. Links checked: June/19 2008.
Derek Punsalan
January 9th, 2007 12:46 pmNice collection. I’m definitely going to make it a personal goal to make the footer the center of attention on my next personal project.
Webstandard-Team
January 9th, 2007 3:55 pmA “Footer” is able to be more than just a line ;o) Very nice “Footer-Collection”!
add
January 9th, 2007 4:59 pmi like footers which are out of the ordinary, but we have to be carefull not to atract user’s attention off the content, so we don’t want bright colors and mouving things in the footer.
Sergio Gandrus
January 9th, 2007 5:27 pmNice footers? It depends on your goal.
For a clean and light design you need a different color and few informations.
As this site does…
jalansutera
January 9th, 2007 6:51 pmshould our readers pay attention more to our footer? how many readers pay attention to footer?
xaxaxa
January 10th, 2007 12:01 amNice footers. Good review.
Slaff
January 10th, 2007 12:07 amVery cute collection =). Thanks for sharing & doing that great work for us ;)
Jamie Phelps
January 11th, 2007 1:50 pmThe title of this article while technically correct isn’t as accurate as it could be. Your collection here is impressive and inspiring, but most of them are simply background images. Indeed, CSS makes the background images possible, but many of them are simply the same footers we see around less impressive designs with better background images.
A couple of sites in the list including nuwen.com and ndesign-studio.com are actually impressive uses of CSS in the footer. ndesign-studio.com’s use of contrasting colors, borders, hover styles, and background images as link icons is indeed great CSS. nuwen.com’s css is even better because it uses no background images but creates a great visual effect of columns using simple padding, margins, and borders.
I would like to see this list revised to really ferret out those sites that are truly using CSS rather than just images to create impressive footer effects.
ChrisB
January 12th, 2007 5:50 pmThanks for another simple but authoritative artical. With your help I am swiftly building up a store of written ‘proof’ about issues I have been trying to get through to clients and bosses for years!
jamjammo
March 20th, 2007 4:35 pmWould it be safe to state that i have a foot fetish?
lol
Stefan
July 24th, 2007 4:20 amThanks for this article a lot :) gave me a whole lot of inspiration!
Syed Balkhi
August 29th, 2007 2:37 pmi like this idea as well, i think footers should repeat the theme of site or an idea or perhaps the logo in some kind of way.
Tropos
October 6th, 2007 7:18 amI think footers should be only when needed. Every project has different characteristics so a lot of them would never require a footer.
Take care out there….
PT
November 16th, 2007 10:43 pmPotentially not safe for work with the Suicide Girls link there…even if the site looks really nice (in more ways than one).
bakazero
January 31st, 2008 7:26 amThe design really inspire me a lot…
Very creative!
rageapples
February 11th, 2008 11:26 pmI’m happy to see you left out all of the examples of excessive footer use. You know, the ones that are a whole other web site themselves.
Aiman
February 19th, 2008 10:37 pmhi …thz 4 da lovely footer..i am going to use it for my project…
Matei
February 23rd, 2008 7:36 amJust great list.. I like what you are doing here!1!
thangaraj
April 10th, 2008 3:41 amvery interesting artcle…thanks smashing magazine.
abhinay
April 10th, 2008 9:31 pmNice Collection.,
Thanks to Smashing Magazine.
Cheers,
CHAK90X
April 14th, 2008 9:53 amFooters are the most importent thing in the template , it sall be cool , s that the visitor will be happy to get n the end of the site :D
Samsul
February 26th, 2009 2:37 amvery useful tutorial, I’m in process of making unique theme for my own blog. it’s going to be my best reference! :-D
ardilo
April 1st, 2009 12:55 ami dont like these kind of footers because of the spesific reasons. İn fact, designers never believe the power of footer. so do i, but in my next project i wanna try some of them. maybe it changes something.
Burçlar
April 2nd, 2009 11:49 amgreat job thanks for the article
Christel
July 20th, 2009 11:39 amThank you Smashing Magazine!
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karthikeyan Bhaskaran
October 15th, 2009 2:33 amNice Articles……………………………………………………………………..
Regards
kartikeyan
web designer
very nice
March 10th, 2010 7:58 pmthis is very good! I have used the ideas on siteforcare.com
Charisse Saras
October 17th, 2010 8:14 pmhave been visiting ur blog around 3 days. really like what you posted. btw i am doing study regarding this topic. do you know any other sites or forums where I can learn more? thanks a lot.
Lizabeth Rozier
October 25th, 2010 3:19 amTest accomplishing the plans beneath the opposite header-the a person that reads ‘you would probably have the option to complete.’
Frits Vrielink
October 25th, 2010 11:13 pmI really love those kind of footers! It gives your website this unique look!
Now I’m wondering how to make such a footer?
Which program should I use to create such a footer?
Thanks in advance!
Frits Vrielink
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