Footers are often an afterthought in blog design. I know firsthand, because my footer is about as basic and uneventful as it gets. The blogs on this list are excellent examples for the rest of us that the footer can be a helpful and interesting aspect of the design (maybe I need to make some changes to mine).
Some of the examples shown here use visual elements to make the design of the footer more interesting, and others simply focus on providing navigation or information in the footer that will help visitors.
For more design inspiration, see:
- 30 Creative Website Headers
- 50+ Gorgeous Navigation Menus
- 50 Inspirational E-Commerce Website Designs
October 27th, 2008
CSS-Tricks is very cool, there’s some great designs here. Cheers Steven.
October 27th, 2008
Wow! Those are so inspiring, I’m off to re-do my blog footers!
October 27th, 2008
Hey thanks for the shout-out Steven! Footers are a great place to go crazy do something interesting with design.
I wish rotation would make its way into CSS so I could line up my links with those slightly-off-kilter tags.
October 27th, 2008
Proves that people are paying more attention to that area of the site and just throwing a bunch of crap down their is not acceptable anymore.
October 27th, 2008
Are you spying on me? It seems as though every time I am looking for something, or thinking about something web related, You post on that topic! Thanks for this, Very good round up.
October 27th, 2008
I believe that we should emphasizes more and more towards utilizing the footer area as a way to promote useful information.
October 27th, 2008
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October 27th, 2008
wow! this is new I like csstrick and webdesignerwall footer, very lovely.
October 27th, 2008
Oh, wow! Thanks for including me!
October 27th, 2008
Chris,
You’re welcome. You have a great point about doing something crazy and experimenting. If you come up with a footer design that’s not so successful, it’s still only a footer and it’s better than screwing up somewhere else.
Tyler,
No spying, but I do have a crystal ball. I wish. Actually, this was a rare last-minute post for me because the one I had scheduled to go tonight just got covered by someone else yesterday.
Aisling,
You’re welcome. Thanks for linking here.
October 28th, 2008
Great footers; pushing the bounds of what a footer is. Mines pretty simple.
October 28th, 2008
thanks for including ProBlogger
October 28th, 2008
This is great, footers really are the icing on the cake when it comes to a design, especially a blog that can feature so much info down there, nice round up.
October 28th, 2008
I feel very honored that you mentioned my site among the greats on that list~ Appreciate it!
Thank you
October 28th, 2008
Great list, I love Brad Candullo’s footer.
October 28th, 2008
Wow Steven this is exactly what I’m working on for two design projects - nice timing!
October 28th, 2008
Hey Steven.
Not been commenting as much of late, but I’m still very much enjoying your content. Thanks a lot for the feature, and have a great week!
October 28th, 2008
Very nice list of designs.
CSS Tricks Footer looks awesome.
October 28th, 2008
This is great, an obvious idea, but as far as I know no one has done it before. Got it bookmarked and will be coming back for inspiration! Thanks
October 28th, 2008
wow nice list. Thanks for share !
October 28th, 2008
Great inspiration!
October 28th, 2008
Wow, such a great list. Footer design is such an art which i never seem to get the hang of.
October 28th, 2008
Hey, David here from wearenotfreelancers, thanks very much for the feature!!
October 28th, 2008
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October 28th, 2008
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October 28th, 2008
hmm, its time to think of redesigning my footer! nice list..
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October 28th, 2008
Darren, Soh, and David,
You’re welcome. Thanks for the inspiration!
Fred,
I think it was done a long time ago before many of these blogs were designed (or re-designed), but I can’t remember where.
October 28th, 2008
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October 29th, 2008
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October 29th, 2008
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October 29th, 2008
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October 29th, 2008
Great collection. A few of the blogs listed are some of my favorite design resource sites.
October 29th, 2008
Hey, what do you think about mine? I just restyled it in CSS.
http://barefoot-webdesign.com
Would love to hear your thoughts…
October 29th, 2008
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October 30th, 2008
Thanks for the feature! I think a footer should be as well-designed as the header.
October 30th, 2008
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October 30th, 2008
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October 30th, 2008
Hi, found you on Dzone! The first one is my favourite, but i like the effort that’s gone into them all. Come to think of it it’s true that footers are usually boring (I never really noticed before!).
It’d be neat to have a cool footer but most of the time you’d be the only one who knew about it. Kind of like wearing really pretty underwear…!
October 30th, 2008
Zoe,
Yeah, I think it’s something that most people won’t notice, but those who do will be impressed and it will make a memorable impression.
October 30th, 2008
It is is probably just me, but I hate those fat footers.
October 30th, 2008
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October 30th, 2008
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October 31st, 2008
Jaan,
Any particular reason?
October 31st, 2008
Nahh, not really. I just dont see footers as being that large in the design process.
October 31st, 2008
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November 1st, 2008
What a great gallery of examples to be inspired by!
November 2nd, 2008
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November 3rd, 2008
I wish rotation would make its way into CSS so I could line up my links with those slightly-off-kilter tags.
November 3rd, 2008
oh that’s really interesting article, showing that more and more people add spice to the website also thinking about footer..
November 3rd, 2008
Wow, thank you so much for featuring me in such a list with all these amazing designers. Incredible.
November 4th, 2008
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November 8th, 2008
The wonderful set of footers are here. But bad thing is that I am not a designer and also we may not use the same footers on our blogs
November 11th, 2008
Impressive blog footers. CSS Tricks is particularly good.
November 11th, 2008
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November 12th, 2008
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November 13th, 2008
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November 14th, 2008
Wow.. I should have paid more attention to my blog’s footer. Sometimes we thought that it’s not important since it’s located at the bottom
I’ll patch up my footer on my next theme make over
November 15th, 2008
Wow! Interesting footers, can you give me more ideas for that?
November 17th, 2008
thanks for sharing, We would expect similar useful resources form you.
November 22nd, 2008
Good roundup of blog footers there - I’m (not) surprised to find some of my favorite design blogs (CSS Tricks, WebDesignerWall etc) in there.
However, I am a bit disappointed with some of your inclusions. Design is subjective, but what exactly is impressive about DavidAirey.com and Problogger’s footer?
November 22nd, 2008
Hi Sumesh,
To answer your question, David Airey’s footer is unique (at least in my mind) because it repeats the navigational menu from the header. Problogger’s just has a lot of useful links for navigating through the site. Not every item on the list is intended to showcase amazing design, just meant to give some examples of what can be done with footers aside from the typical copyright listing and a few text links.
November 23rd, 2008
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December 24th, 2008
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February 3rd, 2009
Hi. I really like this collection. Another good collection can be found : http://www.backtoessentials.com/showcases/100-creative-examples-of-footers-for-web-designers/
March 5th, 2009
Hi! I have a brand new, original, wordpress design with a “sketching” theme.. Check it out if you want =) Hope you like it! (hope you like my footer aswell)
March 10th, 2009
Very cool, I think I will try to make one for my gottv.blogspot blog, wish me luck. Great Post this was just what I was looking for
March 31st, 2009
Great information! At first time i have find something which i like http://www.whiteshaarks.com the most. It all made to see the theme of the site.Even they give proper attention to the color combination of the site so that clients will never ever complaints to the WS.
April 1st, 2009
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April 23rd, 2009
See my blog footer, it is very nice!
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May 10th, 2009
I found this page through a link at Blog Design Blog. I must say, I am very inspired now. It’s like, I can now think outside the box.
May 12th, 2009
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June 6th, 2009
i love all of them
nice list
June 8th, 2009
Im a fan of “Web Designer Wall” I like his blog’s footer.
June 23rd, 2009
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June 26th, 2009
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July 6th, 2009
i tried to make a cool footer but i cant edith the width, i also will try to make something fine.
Cool footers guys