Making the most of Footer Space
Most recently I have been seeing a more developed area in website footer space. Generally in the past this area has been the domain of copyright, accessibility and author information with not much else entertained. It is interesting to see site developers utilise this wasted space for areas of promotion and user utilisation and tools.
This trend to utilise website footer space has got me into thinking … What can you do do make the most of your footer?
If we continue with the idea that footer space is used for copyright, accessibility and author information, we can further this idea by giving user options in social bookmarking, website promotion and branding.
I should make note though, that content that should be designed for main content should not appear in the footer area; probably the reason for this is that if it’s important and you put it at the bottom of the page, it could be totally missed by website visitors.
Some of designed pages I have noticed that have utilised their footer space include: