As a follow-up to my blog design trends post, I’m feeling a need to change “big footer” to:
The content-rich footer
Instead of cluttering up the sidebar, why not remove it completely, or keep the main items on there but move everything else to the footer region, organised nicely in multiple columns?
This way, you’ll still have any important links up the top in a sidebar (or, in a top menu) and if a person has scrolled/read down to the bottom of your blog entries, they’re presented with a set of options right there to earlier content, related links etc. They’re at the bottom most likely because they’re interested in reading more. Otherwise, they’ll get to the bottom of the page, and all those sidebar links you were hoping they’d click on are most likely out of sight. They’ll have to scroll back up to see them.
Examples include:
Viatrax, If Else, Business Logs, Dennis Bullock, Andry Huzain, Juque, Ordered List, Shaun Andrews, Subtraction.
your thoughts
Dennis Bullock
Thanks for the feedback Rachel…….always looking for it.
Stephan L.
i think they are the next generation!
Pete...
Rachel, I’m going to finally do my own full CSS layout, do you mind me using some of the tips from your blog trends posts and this? I will be doing it from scratch so not copying anything, just your tips, esspecially this one are really good.
Rachel
Oh please do! The comment about the guy stealing code is no way connected to learning, being inspired by, even reusing ideas. He just copied the entire code :S
Pete...
Hehe, Thanks Rachel, I will get to it. I’m like a wide eyed schoolboy with all these ideas and tips…
andry
I used to put my recent-links/quicklinks at top of my page. For returning reader, it’s ok, but first time reader will found such ’structure’ tends to be very confusing.
And then I saw Garret Dimmon, If Else, and BusinessLogs’ “footer”, and start to redesign my newly blog (I used WP, now TxP convert) using such structure.
Second, it’s about speed. Doing a lot of query in sidebar is not always the best choice.
That’s my take. Thank you Rachel for putting this up together
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evan
another fine example of fine footers is derek powazek’s site: http://www.powazek.com/
i think a few of the examples you listed (including myself) were pretty inspired by derek’s work.
great blog by the way
Rachel
Thanks Evan, that’s a nice site too!
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Shaun Andrews
My site (www.shaunandrews.com) has been redesigned, and sad to say, but the content-rich footer is no more.