
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
![footer5[4]](http://www.problogdesign.com/wp-content/uploads/2008/11/windowslivewriter40creativeblogfooterdesigns-17dfooter54-749d7e88-2374-495e-9cac-2c6fc953587c.jpg)
We Are Not Freelancers
![footer1[5]](http://www.problogdesign.com/wp-content/uploads/2008/11/windowslivewriter40creativeblogfooterdesigns-17dfooter15-6fc24320-a4cf-4510-998d-b49b440536bf.jpg)
Olly Hite
![footer2[5]](http://www.problogdesign.com/wp-content/uploads/2008/11/windowslivewriter40creativeblogfooterdesigns-17dfooter25-d828daff-9b1e-4bc2-b62b-a7daa1551e8e.jpg)
Sundance DFP Blog
![footer3[6]](http://www.problogdesign.com/wp-content/uploads/2008/11/windowslivewriter40creativeblogfooterdesigns-17dfooter36-3c23c088-652b-498a-94ce-af079b5fd6e5.jpg)
PR Blogger
![footer4[4]](http://www.problogdesign.com/wp-content/uploads/2008/11/windowslivewriter40creativeblogfooterdesigns-17dfooter44-5270285a-90dd-4034-8128-d59189cfa8d8.jpg)
AIGA Los Angeles
![footer6[4]](http://www.problogdesign.com/wp-content/uploads/2008/11/windowslivewriter40creativeblogfooterdesigns-17dfooter64-962cdd22-a7c2-46ad-b401-e8f4bccda09c.jpg)
Catalyst studios
![footer7[4]](http://www.problogdesign.com/wp-content/uploads/2008/11/windowslivewriter40creativeblogfooterdesigns-17dfooter74-cd6cda1d-e3c7-4b6b-97b6-6410c5d9f75c.jpg)
US Trendy
![footer8[4]](http://www.problogdesign.com/wp-content/uploads/2008/11/windowslivewriter40creativeblogfooterdesigns-17dfooter84-03dba984-56fd-41aa-9fc2-3a3a71aea566.jpg)
Dandelion path
![footer9[4]](http://www.problogdesign.com/wp-content/uploads/2008/11/windowslivewriter40creativeblogfooterdesigns-17dfooter94-d9c9ba6a-edf1-4934-923b-ff836d29503b.jpg)
Hicks Design
![footer10[4]](http://www.problogdesign.com/wp-content/uploads/2008/11/windowslivewriter40creativeblogfooterdesigns-17dfooter104-66b82f1c-9d00-431a-ad9e-0750c12fe275.jpg)
Komodo Media
![footer11[4]](http://www.problogdesign.com/wp-content/uploads/2008/11/windowslivewriter40creativeblogfooterdesigns-17dfooter114-cdec5186-9551-4e6c-878d-f51a3697706d.jpg)
Crazy n Funny
![footer12[4]](http://www.problogdesign.com/wp-content/uploads/2008/11/windowslivewriter40creativeblogfooterdesigns-17dfooter124-048ac211-896d-4391-8180-b34120a49a2b.jpg)
Nixon Mcinnes
![footer13[4]](http://www.problogdesign.com/wp-content/uploads/2008/11/windowslivewriter40creativeblogfooterdesigns-17dfooter134-0646530a-1b56-4356-9ecf-551afa2c47a1.jpg)
Inspiredology
![footer14[4]](http://www.problogdesign.com/wp-content/uploads/2008/11/windowslivewriter40creativeblogfooterdesigns-17dfooter144-0b045547-cf37-4c83-936a-f742b999c763.jpg)
Blabolnik
![footer15[4]](http://www.problogdesign.com/wp-content/uploads/2008/11/windowslivewriter40creativeblogfooterdesigns-17dfooter154-18ebeb96-9c81-4d45-9cc3-2b89aebc7f49.jpg)
SamRayner
![footer16[4]](http://www.problogdesign.com/wp-content/uploads/2008/11/windowslivewriter40creativeblogfooterdesigns-17dfooter164-b872e94a-e4de-4c71-9bf3-7f0a00d21f2d.jpg)
Hebatec
![footer17[4]](http://www.problogdesign.com/wp-content/uploads/2008/11/windowslivewriter40creativeblogfooterdesigns-17dfooter174-7da91eeb-961d-443e-add5-6947306d95fc.jpg)
EdgePoint church
![footer18[4]](http://www.problogdesign.com/wp-content/uploads/2008/11/windowslivewriter40creativeblogfooterdesigns-17dfooter184-b05adfd4-d124-4c7a-a58c-d7fa449baf8f.jpg)
The Greg Brady Project
![footer19[4]](http://www.problogdesign.com/wp-content/uploads/2008/11/windowslivewriter40creativeblogfooterdesigns-17dfooter194-b186d83e-5cd6-4ec8-975d-b8cb68e31678.jpg)
CSSaddict
![footer20[4]](http://www.problogdesign.com/wp-content/uploads/2008/11/windowslivewriter40creativeblogfooterdesigns-17dfooter204-ab8a4a7b-3c16-47a8-9184-8fbade97945d.jpg)
Simply Ceative
![footer21[4]](http://www.problogdesign.com/wp-content/uploads/2008/11/windowslivewriter40creativeblogfooterdesigns-17dfooter214-91effb64-70ba-4d86-a15a-f461d8b01fdc.jpg)
Dreamling
![footer22[4]](http://www.problogdesign.com/wp-content/uploads/2008/11/windowslivewriter40creativeblogfooterdesigns-17dfooter224-77bdfc43-94f8-41ea-a806-42e91dc389ec.jpg)
Blog me tender
![footer23[4]](http://www.problogdesign.com/wp-content/uploads/2008/11/windowslivewriter40creativeblogfooterdesigns-17dfooter234-3c4ea287-ae74-411d-ac37-e63e1b8188c9.jpg)
Blog Solid
![footer24[4]](http://www.problogdesign.com/wp-content/uploads/2008/11/windowslivewriter40creativeblogfooterdesigns-17dfooter244-14af698d-8494-475b-9804-5632db4b408a.jpg)
Lucy Blackmore
![footer25[4]](http://www.problogdesign.com/wp-content/uploads/2008/11/windowslivewriter40creativeblogfooterdesigns-17dfooter254-e6c36b69-2b3a-4810-9dad-0e3c80ebad2f.jpg)
Banjax
![footer26[4]](http://www.problogdesign.com/wp-content/uploads/2008/11/windowslivewriter40creativeblogfooterdesigns-17dfooter264-7c2e55f0-7d37-494a-9571-fc97bedff2c6.jpg)
Incubus
![footer27[4]](http://www.problogdesign.com/wp-content/uploads/2008/11/windowslivewriter40creativeblogfooterdesigns-17dfooter274-d8c03a35-2afa-43eb-a4f1-a76021b39dc7.jpg)
Matt
![footer28[4]](http://www.problogdesign.com/wp-content/uploads/2008/11/windowslivewriter40creativeblogfooterdesigns-17dfooter284-6f2474fb-e087-46e8-b73e-aa0826316e15.jpg)
Biola Undergrad
![footer29[4]](http://www.problogdesign.com/wp-content/uploads/2008/11/windowslivewriter40creativeblogfooterdesigns-17dfooter294-3a7ef2ea-d3a6-4522-9b73-273d6a5be5ba.jpg)
Powazek
![footer30[4]](http://www.problogdesign.com/wp-content/uploads/2008/11/windowslivewriter40creativeblogfooterdesigns-17dfooter304-45638bbb-314c-4c21-8084-c40a42fa35cb.jpg)
Boag World
![footer31[4]](http://www.problogdesign.com/wp-content/uploads/2008/11/windowslivewriter40creativeblogfooterdesigns-17dfooter314-e1e12101-47d9-40f5-bf1f-fe9114c5a0d5.jpg)
Bart-Jan Verhoef
![footer32[4]](http://www.problogdesign.com/wp-content/uploads/2008/11/windowslivewriter40creativeblogfooterdesigns-17dfooter324-a425ea4d-cb4b-4694-abec-99a02bdc86ea.jpg)
Kulturbanause
![footer33[4]](http://www.problogdesign.com/wp-content/uploads/2008/11/windowslivewriter40creativeblogfooterdesigns-17dfooter334-7a4a97a0-8b6e-48ee-97a3-71662fd17fa0.jpg)
CSS-tricks
![footer34[4]](http://www.problogdesign.com/wp-content/uploads/2008/11/windowslivewriter40creativeblogfooterdesigns-17dfooter344-69daf878-1416-4817-b550-49389942f527.jpg)
Dale Harris
![footer35[4]](http://www.problogdesign.com/wp-content/uploads/2008/11/windowslivewriter40creativeblogfooterdesigns-17dfooter354-fabb589e-4dae-4226-b34d-b94c4ecd79f5.jpg)
Ten Thousand Things
![footer36[4]](http://www.problogdesign.com/wp-content/uploads/2008/11/windowslivewriter40creativeblogfooterdesigns-17dfooter364-a2aa2104-b15d-434f-b0e7-cc2ba4ee5c05.jpg)
Web Designer Wall
![footer37[4]](http://www.problogdesign.com/wp-content/uploads/2008/11/windowslivewriter40creativeblogfooterdesigns-17dfooter374-37d90ca3-3522-4fb5-bbc7-dba1426136d0.jpg)
Spodek 20
![footer38[4]](http://www.problogdesign.com/wp-content/uploads/2008/11/windowslivewriter40creativeblogfooterdesigns-17dfooter384-04fc866e-b78c-4559-962e-503fe6bb3ef3.jpg)
Pointofe
![footer39[4]](http://www.problogdesign.com/wp-content/uploads/2008/11/windowslivewriter40creativeblogfooterdesigns-17dfooter394-724e182e-1f83-4daf-9c8d-42e8675374be.jpg)
Pointless Ramblings
![footer40[4]](http://www.problogdesign.com/wp-content/uploads/2008/11/windowslivewriter40creativeblogfooterdesigns-17dfooter404-4e9b4c0d-1228-4981-88f4-cfa1d53e3d13.jpg)
So what have you done with your blog’s footer? Think it could be better?
Martín (5 comments)26 November 08
Excellent collection of footers!!, they are very useful to adapt our themes
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.
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?.
Shrihari (3 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 ?
Lee Munroe (7 comments)27 November 08
Nice list. Good to see Banjax in there.
Web Design Beach (31 comments)27 November 08
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.
Boris (1 comments)27 November 08
Nice collection. I like Crazy N funny best. It´s very cool…
Michael Martin (1319 comments)27 November 08
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!
pdincubus (2 comments)27 November 08
hey, thanks for including my footer in your list!
shame it might be changing again soon though…
Shrihari (3 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 ?
pdincubus (2 comments)28 November 08
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.
Tracey Grady (14 comments)28 November 08
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.
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!
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
Brian D. Hawkins (6 comments)30 November 08
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.
cz89 (1 comments)1 December 08
hm..
the picture with that strong blue… great!
like “incubus” most
this grey design and at the end
But its a bit hard to read the text….
really nice designs. all are a bit retro-style
lordmarin (1 comments)2 December 08
Nice list.. i have an similar footer too in one of my blog
George - LogoDesign.org (8 comments)2 December 08
Nice list – the footer on most sites is badly neglected, nice to see some sites making such attractive use of it.
Lady Maksima (3 comments)5 December 08
Nice idea is a half of work.
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!
Sumesh (39 comments)8 December 08
Beautiful footers. I would suggest two more: PSDTuts, CSS Tricks (older design).
WP Cult (2 comments)8 December 08
Sweet collection, Always good to see a overview!
Ralph (9 comments)4 January 09
A great list of different footer-styles. There are some nice inspirations for me. Thank you. Ralph
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!!!
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I’ve subscribe to your blog, this is a great, great blog, keep going guys
Jimmy Rittenborg (3 comments)20 January 09
This is a really great post, with all those brandspanking cool footers!
May the design creativity be with you
CyberSketcher (1 comments)3 February 09
This is really nice. A good place for inspiration. You can find another good collection here: http://www.backtoessentials.co.....designers/
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!!)
tasarım (4 comments)19 March 09
Nice collection. Good to see a site like this sharing these wonderful designs, icons
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.
gopyo (1 comments)3 April 09
This is The Really Good Collection….. i was impressed a lot. Thanks for Giving these kind of Guidences
..: JJP (1 comments)13 April 09
Great reference & eye candy resource! Thanks so much for compiling this awesome source of inspiration.
tasarhane (5 comments)30 June 09
nice list.. thanks.
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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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Blogging Forum (1 comments)19 July 09
Fantastic article on footer styles. I need help designing one for my blogging forum and this is great inspiration!
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pop up displays (3 comments)6 August 09
wicked designs! thanks
kuld33p (1 comments)15 August 09
This is amazing stuff. Keep’em coming. Thanks a lot for this inspirational post.
Instant Devotion (1 comments)19 August 09
Hey thanks for this good resources of footer designs. This is good enough to give me idea for my site
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 ?
Mandy | Business Cards (9 comments)27 August 09
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.:)
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.
BlindAcreMedia (7 comments)2 September 09
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.
Ocim (1 comments)14 September 09
great collection you have
thanks
Edwin Joseph (3 comments)23 September 09
The best collection I’ve seen
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
Caity |ZA Cartridges (4 comments)2 October 09
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.
PhillDoc (1 comments)21 October 09
Interesting post as for me. I’d like to read something more concerning that topic.
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
sticker printing (9 comments)28 October 09
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
Hans (17 comments)6 November 09
I like “Inspiredology” footer. Like old and more mistery from that design. hehehe…
وبساز (1 comments)9 November 09
Hi !
your great post help me in last design !
tanks for any thing my freind….
Darnals (5 comments)15 November 09
wow css source , its for the WP too ?
MMORPG Server
Cell phone tracking (4 comments)16 November 09
Really creative, some are lovely, yet some are beautifull, all are great ones, nice done!!
Finance Zoom (1 comments)2 December 09
Woow…it’s amazing, great design for inspiration…thanks
Techdivine (1 comments)4 December 09
Hi
Simply awesome stuff
Keep more coming
Be Well
Techdivine TD
Studio 76 (1 comments)29 December 09
Look this Footer : http://www.reinesderouen.fr
And this : http://www.studio76.fr
Thanks
Autai ptfe (17 comments)30 December 09
Great Poster !!~~
custom printing (1 comments)3 January 10
very nice designing !!
Ksana (1 comments)4 January 10
Very nice!
Thank you.
Altinkum (2 comments)9 January 10
nice article, enjoyed looking at all.
Chez (1 comments)22 January 10
Coool! Love em
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.
Dizen Brand Design (1 comments)27 January 10
Great resource for footer designs.
Thanks 4 sharing!
Hayloft Media (3 comments)28 January 10
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.
Michael Martin (1319 comments)30 January 10
Definitely! Feel free to share how the project turns out, would love to see it!
Bonus Partybets (1 comments)3 February 10
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.
Man and a Van London (13 comments)12 February 10
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.
Folder printing (3 comments)15 February 10
Thanks for information this information is really great.
Thanks for share it.
fotografia ślubna (2 comments)17 February 10
Dandelion path – like this very much
Texas Medical Transcriptioniption (11 comments)17 February 10
Nice information because every link in your footer, regulates on every page of your website.
how to sell ebooks (3 comments)24 February 10
Nice… properly organized and nicely presentable links stop your visitors from leaving your site and click on one of the links… Thanks for sharing.
Patrice Poliquin (1 comments)25 February 10
I already saw these on sites like Smashing Magasine… try to be creative and search for new stuff dude..
m65 (19 comments)27 February 10
very nice share. i cant believe i am using one of the footers used in this article
kittuk (2 comments)5 March 10
The blogmetender footer is great but their archive list is way too long and ruins it..
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..