Six Revisions

wow… all awesome footers :)

Design

Yea, I saw this on digg and in first moment I couldn’t believe that someone bothered to make such list. But I must admit that this list is very good and cool. Good work to the people created them and good work to you too :)

An Jay

Beautiful collection of footer designs

Chris Coyier

Hey thanks for the shout-out Jacob! My thinking is that websites are just so incredibly tall these days what’s another few hundred pixels to really cap off a design =)

Chris W.

Thanks for the shout Jacob. I’m honored to be listed next to the great Jason Santa Maria.

David Perel

Thank you for featuring We Are not Freelancers! Very happy to see our site here :)

kiran

Pretty Good collection.Nice post…

paul

regurgitated smashing magazine article?

Pavan Kumar

One main thing I can observe is that the usage of images. More images will lead to more loading times affecting the user experience. Design wise, all look pretty good…

Chocksy

Wow i really like this ones. I’ll probably change mine and use these as inspiration but that after i’m sick of my current design :). Thanks for sharing.

enareksi

I don’t know where you got those but most of those are really not that special.

Daria

Great collection, very inspiring :)

Florea

Beautiful collection of footer designs

Sky Xavier

wooooowww all designs are really catchy. really nice work all of them have done. thubs up.

Niels

I like footers filled with dynamic content. Good post to get inspiration for my own footer, thanks!

Soroush

Nice set of footers! When I visit a website, I always check the footer to see what the designer came up with! I think it gives the website personality (similar to the header)!

I particularly like the tape deck footer in the selection above.

john may

I like this too : http://matiasdutto.com

David Perel

Thanks for featuring We Are not Freelancers! Awesome collection!

Jacob Gube

@Chris Coyier: Hey buddy, thanks for dropping by and sharing the thinking behind your design.

@Chris W.: Great footer design!

@David Perel: The pleasure’s all mine, keep up the great work guys.

@Chocksy: and @Niels:That’s the goal, to inspire (even myself – check out the footer on Six Revisions!).

@Pavan Kumar: I’m glad you bring up the point with CSS background images; I think there’s a trade-off between a unique, eye-catching designs and response times due to large background images: It’s up to you as a web designer to keep that in mind and to make sure that you’re getting “your money’s worth” with the CSS background images you use.

blarghmonster

Has no one else noticed half of these aren’t footers?

Andrew

Vimeo.com?

David Hellmann

yeh, thanks for including my page! Good Sites

earnpress

Excellent list…a great deal of idea and inspiration. Never underestimate the footer.

Raj

Nice list. Although, heh, anyone look down at the footer of this page? A little ironic, no?

Arron

I personally don’t think it’s wise to put key calls to action in the footer, as many of these footers incorporate. Beyond the ‘gee whiz’ factor of many of this novelty designs, people generally (and understandably) don’t expect to scroll all the way down to find activities where they expect there to be a copyright notice and legalese.

As a small and perhaps related piece of evidence, ads (which are generally replete with calls to action) above the fold monetize an order of magnitude higher than those below the fold.

WebAir

Good work Jacob! An other suggested resource > 40 Creative Footers http://www.webair.it/blog/2008/12/12/40-footers-creativi/

david

there are some nice footers … i particularly like the idea of incorporating a contact page into the footer. that’s smart!!!

thanks for sharing these nifty ideas.

cutt

nice post, thanks

Jacob Gube

@Arron: I agree, important site features should be placed higher on the page where people can see them. I think that footers should be reserved for extraneous items such as Flickr sets or Twitter profiles. I do feel that once designers begin to rethink the use of the footer in their designs (like I should be doing here on Six Revisions) and start utilizing the bottom of the page more – users will begin to look for auxiliary information down there. For example, the footer has become synonymous with copyright information. The first place users go to for getting this information is at the bottom of the page. Pretty soon, users will expect other information they’ve seen in other websites be placed on the footer.

The bottom of the page is a convenient place to put things in because it doesn’t pull away from the content like the sidebar does, plus it (usually) gives you a bit more horizontal space to work with.

Amuki

Thanks for including my Blog.

Rahul

I like to keep the footer as much simple as possible. but seeing these designs, i think i’ll have to change my mind. some quite good designs here.

Tony

When looking at the 43 folders image, the type is so pixelated it looks like the screenshot was taken in IE6. Why not use a browser that has better font rendering for these screenshots?

Jacob Gube

@Tony: They were taken using Firefox 3. I did, however, scale them down in Photoshop to fit the page. If you’ve got a better way of taking screen shots, let me know – I’d appreciate it.

CPOliver