Website Footers?
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- Jeermid
Recently I was stumped! I have always designed footers to my websites with the usual disclaimer, copyright, sitemap, contact and entire text based navigation for the site. It was a standard procedure. However a client requested I remove all the footers and to my surprise I couldn't convince her to change her mind or offer a concrete explanation why the footer is important to all pages. So why should websites have footer information? Is it unnecessary clutter or mandatory functionality? And is the latest trend of creating large beautiful footers filled with all kinds of information a bit of design overkill? http://www.seomoz.org/blog/put-y…
- fyoucher10
IMO: have a footer if you have copyright info or want a global place for contact info or other important info/links.
Large big footers are crap, don't do it. It's like pimpin' out your underwear. No one really cares, cept the one wearing it and the one taking it off.
Putting swear words and celebrity secrets in HTML code is the new trend.
- acescence0
well, if you have stuff that should go there then that's where it should go, legal, terms of service, etc.. if i suggested removing that at some huge company the lawyers would go apeshit.
as for navigation, i'm not sure on that one. your primary navigation probably shouldn't be in some form that would require a text-only version elsewhere to be useful to someone or somebot.
- nocomply0
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These may look pretty, but IMO most of it is superfluous crap that never gets used.
I prefer the old-skool, more minimalistic footers.
- acescence0
if it contains a bunch of content and whatnot, doesn't it cease being a footer?
- doesnotexist0
I've only used it on artist's sites really, for copyrights
- formed0
Duplicating the nav looks busy and redundant.
Disclaimers, though, are often needed and that's a good place for them.
- mikotondria30
Whatever is aesthetically and logically necessary - surely. It's design we do, if the design calls for there to be a consistent base to the page, then put it in. You can't 'design' with some rule about 'no footers' - be like designing a car with similar notions of 'no corners'.
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- Midge0
Have a footer or don't have a footer.... I'm a lebowski, You're a Lebowski.... its case by case... there are no rules. If your website needs a footer, have one, if it doesn't don't.
- ethios0
seems to be a trend to have massive footers that are bigger than the content lol
- zarkonite0
The way I see it, the trend has been to put the sitemap in the footer basically.