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- 2April 8th, 2008 6:01 pm
VERY inspirational!
Great post.
:] - 3April 8th, 2008 6:04 pm
I think another great addition would be Abduzeedo.com
- 4April 8th, 2008 6:32 pm
Fantastic work as usual, guys!
Dugg!
- 5April 8th, 2008 6:47 pm
lobster? scorpion!
- 6April 8th, 2008 6:47 pm
404 on the Navigation Menus: Trends and Examples link
mreow.
- 7April 8th, 2008 7:09 pm
LOL
And it’s a plane, not an helicopter… xDAnyway, great article!
- 8April 8th, 2008 7:29 pm
Olieng’s is a scorpion, not a lobster.
- 9April 8th, 2008 7:36 pm
That one in Olieng’s website is not a lobster, but a scorpion! O_O
I love the mono-chromic kind of footer. They are simple but sharp to the eyes. Very good!
- 10April 8th, 2008 8:03 pm
This should makes us think that footers, even looking insignificant at the bottom of the websites, should not be taken for granted but to maximize the overall website design. I’m always a follower of Nick La. He deserves to be mentioned here, as always. Another smashing compilation! Keep it coming.
- 11April 8th, 2008 8:32 pm
Great post. Here’s another good resource for website footers, http://yample.com/popupon/?p=54
Peter
http://webshopinabox.peter-tashjian.com/WebShopInABox.htm - 12April 8th, 2008 10:31 pm
Fantastic read! I’ve been looking for design ideas for footers for a client. This has helped me along nicely :)
- 13April 8th, 2008 11:41 pm
Thanks very much for the feature (Catalyst Studios) – it means a lot to be mentioned in the same article as Nick La and Jon Hicks!
But seriously… how did you find out about the site?
o_-
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- 15April 9th, 2008 12:07 am
Excellent, as always.
- 16April 9th, 2008 12:34 am
It’s a nice idea to enhance the footer but don’t forget that from an interation design perspective the purpose of a footer is to indicate where the page ends to the user so they can stop scrolling. As usual it’s important to balance usabilty with style.
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- 18April 9th, 2008 12:43 am
Good article. I’ve been searching for a footer-inspiration type page for a while. One to bookmark. Cheers.
- 19April 9th, 2008 12:54 am
Well.
Smashing magazine. I tried to surf to this link, but I was surprised to find an article about “error”-messages instead. I was a bit confused for a while there….
- 20April 9th, 2008 12:54 am
Cheers Smashy
- 21April 9th, 2008 12:55 am
Tag Clouds Gallery: Examples And Good Practices presents creative examples and ideas for design of tag clouds.
-I ment this was linking to the “error-article”…
- 22April 9th, 2008 12:56 am
Appropos footers.
I think your own site: Smashing Magazine needs a link to the top in the footer… - 23April 9th, 2008 12:58 am
I was gonna say that :P it’s a Spitfire…
- 24April 9th, 2008 3:13 am
Dear Smashing Magazine
Are you psychic or do you have some kind of secret spy agent sitting on my computer listening to my search request to google?
Last week i’m looking for fresh new rss icons to use for a new project and i look at my news feed and there it is.
This week i’m searching mr google for new footer’s for another project and again you arrive timely in my news with another appropriate post ;)
Thanks for all the great posts, dug, stumbled etc etc…..
- 25April 9th, 2008 3:31 am
The same sites we’ve all seen before…Hicksdesign (albeit great), webdesignerwall, etc. Snore.
- 26April 9th, 2008 3:58 am
Great List…as usual!
- 27April 9th, 2008 5:24 am
Congratulations for your great work!
When inspiration is needed go to smashingmagazine….It’s incredible!
Thanks a lot!
- 28April 9th, 2008 5:37 am
One to bookmark, thanks!
- 29April 9th, 2008 5:55 am
Some nice bits of useful info, but YOUR page really sucks. It takes forever to load, way to many external feeds/includes, ect. It is slow and even after it loads, it scrolls in a herky jerky way that just makes me decide to leave and never return. I hope you clean this mess up as, the article was pretty good.
- 30April 9th, 2008 6:18 am
Great Article…. in #1 (Yodiv) – They are “Divlets” and they are in a queue for jobs. Take it from a bonafide “Divlet” :-)
- 31April 9th, 2008 6:40 am
wow, thank you guy!
- 32April 9th, 2008 7:33 am
Very useful! Just one thing – Miloslav Leseticky is not an illustrator, but web designer.
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- 34April 9th, 2008 8:02 am
Ha ha , I know Olly Hite a bit from home. Nice bloke.
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- 36April 9th, 2008 10:04 am
Great list of examples. Actually gave me a few inspirational ideas…
@Rachael: Cheers for the nice comment! :D Although my site is naked for CSS Naked Day today, the style will be back up at midnight. :P
- 37April 9th, 2008 11:27 am
Superb… inspiring work…
- 38April 9th, 2008 2:54 pm
congratulations on your great work
- 39April 9th, 2008 3:31 pm
what about last.fm?, I expected it to be commented here when I read the post title.
- 40April 9th, 2008 6:31 pm
Fantastic!! Thanks for sharing.
- 41April 9th, 2008 7:03 pm
Great colection! I’m impressed! Where you guys find all these cool sites? I also like this footer Link [globator.net]
- 42April 9th, 2008 8:29 pm
Excellent collection
- 43April 9th, 2008 11:47 pm
Simply, thank you.
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- 45April 10th, 2008 8:26 am
This is a wonderful and informative article. I must agree that most individual online entities may actually take their foot space for granted. Since, it has been beaten into our heads that the top portion of any web page is the most important. Hence, great attention should be placed in this area.
Thanks for reshaping my focus to an all encompassing one.
- 46April 10th, 2008 8:57 am
Thank you very much for this!
- 47April 11th, 2008 7:55 am
I am so guilty of this! Thanks for bringing it to my attention. Nice examples too!
- 48April 11th, 2008 10:40 am
Nice collection. I would maybe add BlackMoonDev.com to this collection. Cheers
- 49April 11th, 2008 10:51 am
I would have liked to have seen:
1) ecommerce sites
2) full screen shots so we can see the context of the footer in the whole page - 50April 12th, 2008 3:30 am
they are such an amazing collection … Great Job Guys
- 51April 12th, 2008 11:32 pm
Great list with much more ideas. Thank you for your great work, again ;)
Ralph
- 52April 13th, 2008 2:19 am
Once again a great list to look through for inspiration.
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- 55April 15th, 2008 7:13 am
Awesome collection!! Thanks!
- 56April 15th, 2008 9:08 am
Hi, great post and collection.
In my blog Codesignville has a special footer too, or better, three footers, depending the hour of the access. Take a look there.
Thanks and congratulations. - 57April 15th, 2008 5:44 pm
This is a really great collection of work right here. I agree that many people over look the use of a well designed footer while others take full advantage of the what that curious space can do for an effective design.
Once again thank you for the imagery!
Alfred Fox
afox@alfredfox.com
Web Design - 58July 28th, 2008 11:27 pm
Yeah your article really so interesting and good about footer values who dont knows about it.
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- 60October 31st, 2008 8:53 pm
25 Impressive Blog Footers This was shared in the Fresh Bookmarks of Smashing Magazine and worthy of knowing this site once it disappears. BTW, how do we access the Fresh Bookmarks in a single page?
- 61November 12th, 2008 6:03 am
Hi webmaster!
- 62November 12th, 2008 6:14 am
Hi webmaster!
- 63November 17th, 2008 10:19 am
Amazing! Really usefull one. like it very much.
See this site http://www.busimonster.com - 64January 14th, 2009 7:17 am
This is a very good collection of footers, I think smashmagzine could also think of explaining customization of these with good samples that would lead the users to get much out of its efforts in helping the webmasters and bloggers
- 65February 3rd, 2009 8:39 am
Respect given. Incredible.
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- 67March 7th, 2009 3:28 am
i like.
- 68March 19th, 2009 4:42 am
Codex Transportica is the most beautiful blog design I have seen.
- 69March 29th, 2009 9:24 am
Lovely collection of footers. I admire the amount of people turning to their footers to host content and art. It’s a great surprise to find on a great design.
Shameless plug: Snailbird.com.
- 70April 16th, 2009 11:07 am
Apparently, sites with beautifully designed footers are beautifully designed in general.
Go figure.
=) - 71May 13th, 2009 9:50 pm
Да,согласен с предыдущими блоггерами
^..^ :-) - 72May 19th, 2009 1:44 am
Olieng’s is a scorpion, not a lobster
- 73June 7th, 2009 10:03 pm
thanks for the great ideas! ^^ need them for my web page design
^^~ - 74June 12th, 2009 10:47 am
Inspiration overload!
- 75June 14th, 2009 12:43 am
Хм,согласен с предыдущими ораторами
^..^ Bye - 76June 15th, 2009 12:32 am
Молодца,согласен с предыдущими высказываниями
^..^ Bye - 77June 20th, 2009 12:01 am
Хм,несогласен с предыдущими блоггерами
Споки Bye - 78June 25th, 2009 11:48 pm
Excellent collection, maybe you should add this site? I like when you play with a logo in the footer.
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- 80September 13th, 2009 8:06 am
Some really great footers here. I like what they did on vimeo. When I created something similar for our daycare listing site I wasn’t sure if it was really necessary to overcomplicate the design. In fact, we received mixed reviews from the site review forums on the footer. A well designed footer adds “personality” to the site, IMO.
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nice collection smash
maybe you can include my site for this category :P