40 Creative Blog Footer Designs

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The footer is traditionally an underused part of a web design. It’s the place for copyright notices and credit links.

But you can do so much more with a blog footer. Twitter updates, popular posts, recent comments, and Flickr photo streams are just a few common ideas. Have a look at the photos below and see if you can pick up a few ideas!

Flyin’ Web
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We Are Not Freelancers
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Olly Hite
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Sundance DFP Blog
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PR Blogger
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AIGA Los Angeles
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Catalyst studios
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US Trendy
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Dandelion path
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Hicks Design
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Komodo Media
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Crazy n Funny
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Nixon Mcinnes
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Inspiredology
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Blabolnik
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SamRayner
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Hebatec
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EdgePoint church
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The Greg Brady Project
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CSSaddict
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Simply Ceative
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Dreamling
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Blog me tender
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Blog Solid
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Lucy Blackmore
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Banjax
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Incubus
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Matt
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Biola Undergrad
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Powazek
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Boag World
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Bart-Jan Verhoef
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Kulturbanause
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CSS-tricks
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Dale Harris
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Ten Thousand Things
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Web Designer Wall
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Spodek 20
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Pointofe
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Pointless Ramblings
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So what have you done with your blog’s footer? Think it could be better?

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  1. Martín (16 comments)26 November 08

    Excellent collection of footers!!, they are very useful to adapt our themes

    • Marty (9 comments)30 August 10

      One of the best blog footer round-ups I’ve encountered, very inspirational

  2. Jeremy (6 comments)26 November 08

    Great collection, I definitely tried to put extra care into creating my footer but some of these just plain blow me out of the water. It’s an important detail in blog design that was neglected for so long it is good to see people making use of this area.

    • I never thought about creating creative footer before, this post really inspired me. Thanks for sharing..

    • HD Guy (12 comments)30 August 10

      Indeed very inspirational collection, it’s always good to bookmark these articles for future reference

  3. Hendry Lee (13 comments)27 November 08

    I like Powazek best. It seems to pack a lot of information into the limited virtual real estate at the bottom of the page.

    I’m curious as to how people actually interact with this. Is it really effective in stopping the readers? Or do they care to scroll down to the bottom?.

  4. Shrihari (5 comments)27 November 08

    Nice list…
    If you look at my blog footer, I’ve borrowed the 3 columns from John Chow and the “tiny-text” thing from Matt… I put a ton of information about me in the footer, in a simple way… Does that look good ?

  5. Nice list. Good to see Banjax in there.

  6. Beautiful list indeed. Those are really wonderful and very creative footer designs. I need to make new footer this design for one of my blogs so i found very interesting ideas to use for that. Thank you for sharing.

  7. Boris (1 comments)27 November 08

    Nice collection. I like Crazy N funny best. It´s very cool…

  8. Martin,
    Glad you’re finding the collection useful. :)

    Jeremy,
    Same here. I try to do something great with it, but the creativity of some people with their footers still amazes me!

    Hendry,
    I can’t talk much about other people’s footers, but here on Pro Blog Design at least, I have 2 sets of links in my footer, and they both get a fair few clicks a day. It’s not a massive amount by any means, but it’s still a good few people. If I was just using a copyright notice, it would be none, so i think its worthwhile to make a decent footer.

    Shrihari,
    I like the tiny-text effect most. The columns look good, but it might look better if they were all equal length? :)

    Lee, WDB, Boris,
    Glad yous found some footers yous liked! :)

  9. hey, thanks for including my footer in your list! :)
    shame it might be changing again soon though…

  10. Shrihari (5 comments)27 November 08

    Michael,
    Aren’t the first two columns equal length ? Are you talking about the 3rd and 4th column ?

    pdincubus,
    Your footer looks great.. You are going to changing just the footer or the entire design ?

  11. shrihari, thanks for the comments :)

    It will be a little like the style that is there now. I love heading font and definitely the victorian wallpaper style thing in the background – so it will be a variation of what is there now. I might do away with the two column content but not sure yet. I think the footers on my site are pretty important, probably as important as the top menu, so what ever I do, I want to make sure they’re full of useful stuff and given enough screen space.

  12. A lot of the footers in your collection have a whimsical style, which can be a nice way to round out a web layout. It’s hard not to enjoy looking at them.

  13. Graeme (3 comments)28 November 08

    Some good designs there, very good for inspiration.

    I’m about to re-design my blog and was thinking of inclusing some links in the footer, as it was an area I’ve previously overlooked this area in designs before.

    Good collection!

  14. wilson (1 comments)29 November 08

    excellent collection, This point is important because you can improve new design in order to better the webs design. I´m a student but i like the web design i think that this kinds things are the best so that learn.

    PD: sorry if i have a mistake, but i need write better my English

  15. Nice work putting the collection together. I’ve been here before but I found this post on Digg, which I dugg of course. http://digg.com/design/40_Crea.....er_Designs I like the EdgePoint church and CSS-tricks footers the best.

  16. cz89 (1 comments)1 December 08

    hm..
    like “incubus” most ;)
    this grey design and at the end ;) the picture with that strong blue… great!
    But its a bit hard to read the text….

    really nice designs. all are a bit retro-style ;)

  17. lordmarin (1 comments)2 December 08

    Nice list.. i have an similar footer too in one of my blog :)

  18. Nice list – the footer on most sites is badly neglected, nice to see some sites making such attractive use of it.

  19. Nice idea is a half of work.

  20. Arjen (13 comments)5 December 08

    Those are some really nice footers.. I should really do something with my blog footer, as I don’t have anything in it now..

    Thanks!

  21. Sumesh (42 comments)8 December 08

    Beautiful footers. I would suggest two more: PSDTuts, CSS Tricks (older design).

  22. WP Cult (2 comments)8 December 08

    Sweet collection, Always good to see a overview!

  23. Ralph (9 comments)4 January 09

    A great list of different footer-styles. There are some nice inspirations for me. Thank you. Ralph

  24. kang at LE (1 comments)4 January 09

    Wot a great post, I’m in the middle of re-designing my footer too and this article gave me bag loads of inspiration …. if only my html and css skills were not so low!!!
    I’ve subscribe to your blog, this is a great, great blog, keep going guys :D !

  25. This is a really great post, with all those brandspanking cool footers!
    May the design creativity be with you :P

  26. This is really nice. A good place for inspiration. You can find another good collection here: http://www.backtoessentials.co.....designers/

  27. BlogProducer (1 comments)6 March 09

    Awesome article! I really needed some good ideas for footers for my new site and came across this website. I can’t believe all the time you spent compiliing this information and creating the images. Awesome Site! (Bookmarked!!)

  28. tasarım (4 comments)19 March 09

    Nice collection. Good to see a site like this sharing these wonderful designs, icons

  29. Nikki (4 comments)29 March 09

    Great collection! I love the surprise of a good footer – I know I try to incorporate it into my designs as much as possible. These are gorgeous.

  30. gopyo (1 comments)3 April 09

    This is The Really Good Collection….. i was impressed a lot. Thanks for Giving these kind of Guidences

  31. ..: JJP (1 comments)13 April 09

    Great reference & eye candy resource! Thanks so much for compiling this awesome source of inspiration.

  32. tasarhane (5 comments)30 June 09

    nice list.. thanks.
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  33. xBids (1 comments)19 July 09

    Excellent job on the article about website footer designs. I have been looking for some good footer inspiration for my free auction website.
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  34. Fantastic article on footer styles. I need help designing one for my blogging forum and this is great inspiration!
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  35. wicked designs! thanks

  36. kuld33p (1 comments)15 August 09

    This is amazing stuff. Keep’em coming. Thanks a lot for this inspirational post.

  37. Hey thanks for this good resources of footer designs. This is good enough to give me idea for my site :-)

  38. Jessika Spencer (1 comments)26 August 09

    Thank you for the awesome post! The collection is really useful and fresh.

    I just wonder, may I use some of the ideas while creating my own website using the services like this http://www.site2you.com ?

  39. Those are some really great designs, very creative. They are really great on the eye.

    I really am enjoying this site, we don’t see many like this.:)

  40. Avery (11 comments)31 August 09

    All the footers are very nice,May be I can copy the footer file to my wordpress themes.Then change the code.

  41. It seems like footers are becoming quit the popular place for lots of information and social media buttons. These ideas are going to follow through and we will be seeing a lot more sites with larger footers.

  42. Ocim (1 comments)14 September 09

    great collection you have

    thanks

  43. The best collection I’ve seen :-)

  44. lynnscott (20 comments)30 September 09

    Good post excellant collection of Icons…..I always overlook….Footers… I must say it does…Finish the design…with links…so the page continues…I thank you for this colection…….Thanks

  45. Just stumbled across here, and just love this site, so different, informative and good content.

    I have to say that there are some really awesome designs there, great inspiration, and so much creativity, thanks for sharing these with all of us.

  46. PhillDoc (1 comments)21 October 09

    Interesting post as for me. I’d like to read something more concerning that topic.

  47. vhictor (1 comments)24 October 09

    I like this footer design “Biola Undergrad” I want to show my photo in the footer just like the problogger.net

  48. No doubt the above are splendid creation for footers but i looked sharply to few of the above images and came to know that they simply created with the photoshop easy tricks which i already seen in your blog. Its actually your credit. Thanks

  49. Hans (17 comments)6 November 09

    I like “Inspiredology” footer. Like old and more mistery from that design. hehehe…

  50. Hi !
    your great post help me in last design !
    tanks for any thing my freind….

  51. Darnals (6 comments)15 November 09

    wow css source , its for the WP too ?

    MMORPG Server

  52. Really creative, some are lovely, yet some are beautifull, all are great ones, nice done!!

  53. Woow…it’s amazing, great design for inspiration…thanks

  54. Hi

    Simply awesome stuff

    Keep more coming

    Be Well

    Techdivine TD

  55. Look this Footer : http://www.reinesderouen.fr

    And this : http://www.studio76.fr

    Thanks

  56. Autai ptfe (17 comments)30 December 09

    Great Poster !!~~

  57. very nice designing !!

  58. Ksana (1 comments)4 January 10

    Very nice!
    Thank you.

  59. Altinkum (2 comments)9 January 10

    nice article, enjoyed looking at all.

  60. Chez (1 comments)22 January 10

    Coool! Love em

  61. Wasim (1 comments)25 January 10

    Very creative designs. After looking at these designs mine looks a little dull now. Might have spice things upa little now !!!!!!
    Thanks for this post.

  62. Great resource for footer designs.
    Thanks 4 sharing!

  63. Great footer resources, you gave me some inspiration for a project I am currently completing. I love designing footers for blogs, since you are allowed to be a little less informal and can actually do some fun & creative things with the design.

  64. Well, this is a very valuable post. Thanks for the information you provided. It would be great if got more post like this. I appreciate it.

  65. Cool, I like this post. I just wonder where can I set up the footer in my wordpress blog because I not familiar on that.

  66. Thanks for information this information is really great.
    Thanks for share it.

  67. Dandelion path – like this very much

  68. Nice… properly organized and nicely presentable links stop your visitors from leaving your site and click on one of the links… Thanks for sharing.

  69. I already saw these on sites like Smashing Magasine… try to be creative and search for new stuff dude..

  70. m65 (20 comments)27 February 10

    very nice share. i cant believe i am using one of the footers used in this article

  71. kittuk (2 comments)5 March 10

    The blogmetender footer is great but their archive list is way too long and ruins it..

  72. rachel fox (1 comments)7 March 10

    I got mine made by this website and they do make pretty decent footer designs.

    You can check it out on http://www.offroadstudios.com

    cheers..

  73. Galer (1 comments)19 March 10

    It’s top design of blogs’?

  74. designikx (1 comments)22 March 10

    really a nice collection. thanks for sharing it.

  75. Anggara (4 comments)24 March 10

    Very impressive footer. Maybe, you can share ‘How to’ at the next article. Thanks.

  76. yadukrishna (1 comments)5 April 10

    hmmmmmmmmmmm nice

  77. utown blog (4 comments)19 April 10

    i think the designs is nice.

  78. Those footers are very beautiful! <3

  79. battery (9 comments)3 May 10

    the design is very good

  80. inspirationfeed (14 comments)3 May 10

    Nice collection very inspiring!

  81. Very nice collection of footer designs. I try to spend extra time on my footers but nothing as good as these. A lot of these are simply brilliant and great to look at. These are very inspirational and I could get some good ideas from all of them. Thanks!

  82. Really lovely footer designs!! Thanks for the list :)

  83. BTW especially sundance was the killer one for me among all!

  84. Baba (3 comments)6 June 10

    These really very creative ones ! I wish i could have one unique footer

  85. Namila (12 comments)7 June 10

    great stuff..thanks for sharing ;)

  86. SEO Vancouver (4 comments)8 June 10

    Adding Twitter, FB and the like seems to be the most logical thing to do in the footer. Nice designs!

  87. Great collection, thanks for the inspiration

  88. Well, this is a very valuable post. Thanks for the great collection. It would be great if got more post like this… I appreciate it.

  89. Sutures (3 comments)9 June 10

    The collection of 40 Creative Blog Footer Designs is amazing… Thanks for the collection.

  90. Suture (2 comments)9 June 10

    Awesome collection!!!! Was searching for something like this for a long time!!

  91. warriorz (1 comments)11 June 10

    Great collection :)

  92. nice information shared.
    thanks for sharing this post.

  93. This is probably the most valuable information I’ve ever saw and read. Thanks for sharing and good luck for your future post.

  94. I like the Sundance footer, really suits the brand nicely, combine that with Olly Hite just above it with a few tweaks and it would be even better.

  95. Motercalo (3 comments)20 June 10

    your great post help me in last design !

  96. As I just started posting comments for blog and facing problem of lots of rejections.

  97. I’m not from the United States but I am looking for these tendencies which provide the changes in the traditional high school. Thank you very much for this experience.

  98. salman sajid (1 comments)24 June 10

    These all Designs are really good and nice and i like green one more then all .

  99. This makes me want to design one for my blog

  100. nice footer showcase collections

  101. Games (1 comments)5 July 10

    These are GREAT! I really like the last one.

  102. Electricians (3 comments)7 July 10

    I always prefer to read the quality content and this thing I found in you post. Thanks for sharing.

  103. I think the footers on my site are pretty important, probably as important as the top menu, and that post will help me a lot improving my footers sites. Thanks!

  104. great footers, i like it

  105. click bank (4 comments)11 July 10

    Thanks, i love how you do it, great.

  106. Blogger Tips (5 comments)12 July 10

    Great footer design. Thanks Narendra

  107. Thank you for the awesome post! The collection is really useful and fresh.
    This makes me want to design one for my blog

  108. i get some idea with this post..thanks for it

  109. Really nice collection of footers – great inspiration.

  110. really cool info here , thanks

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  112. I love the footers on this site. I hope they inspire me to create a great one for my site.

  113. John Loudon (6 comments)28 July 10

    A lot of good work here, chucky footers are a nice addition to sites these days :) better than your standard terms | sitemap | (c)copyright stuff.

    Komodo Media is coolest imo – can’t beat a design with a toocan !

  114. Does any one know how to integrate those footer desings in to a wordpress theme…?

  115. Great design. let me check it for yourself

  116. Just the information I was looking for, thank you

  117. Very interesting, will visit again

  118. Great Blog! Will visit again

  119. Thank you for the information, keep up the good work

  120. Excellent post, thanks.

  121. Great collection of footers thanks for sharing them

  122. overbag (2 comments)30 August 10

    The best collection I’ve seen!!

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