Inspiration: 40 Unique Footer Designs

Inspiration: 40 Unique Footer Designs

on Jun 18th 2010 with 57 comments

For this week’s stream of inspiration, we’ve collected forty fantastically creative and unique footer designs.

Illustrated

1. readymadedesigns

2. blog.singularitydesign

3. rubbik

4. juliafreidank

5. rubidine

6. foxtie

7. jeannieweb

8. snailbird

9. deanoakley

10. thepixel

11. morphix

12. rusted-ink

13. cooltribe

14. bimbisicuramente

15. nybbletech

16. yuruinspires

17. launchmind

18. ormanclark

19. answerjam

20. prismtone

Minimal

21. skylaranderson

22. fubiz

23. quake.focus27

24. projectfedena

25. ogvidius

26. kyee

27. yaronschoen

28. markpalmamedia

29. yudisign

30. lauraalter

31. webjunkiexl

Use Of Texture

32. floridaflourish

33. texturelovers

34. ectomachine

35. sunrisedesign

36. energycell

37. ecoki

38. thinkdesignblog

39. storypixel

So what do you think? Are you a fan of the huge footers, or do you prefer them to be as simple as possible?

 
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  • http://www.ate5.com Jordan Walker

    I am a fan of the minimal footer, hard to stay how much attention a footer below the fold draws customers and clients.

  • http://mediumjones.com Mediumjones

    Nice selection – but it looks like a majority of these thumbnails have skewed their contents’ native dimensions… That’s a darn shame :(

  • http://TJ.Abderrahmane.com Abderrahmane TJ

    The screenshots are not good scalled :/

    • http://gregdougherty.com Greg

      Agreed. They don’t look good.

  • http://www.edwardmargallo.com Edward

    All the screen shots look like they weren’t downsized correctly. The appear to be squish horizontally.

  • http://flyordie.sin.khk.be/flyordie2010 Ksilem

    those are some nice footers
    defenitly a good source of inspiration for my next websites

    thx jeffrey way

  • http://aklp.deviantart.com/ AKLP

    best was one probably from “ectomachine”.
    Some of them i really didnt like, mostly cause they were less of footer and more the half page long…

  • David

    Did I count wrong or is number 40 missing?

    • http://www.xboxgamertag.com Xbox

      LOL!!! Well spotted :L

  • http://www.61dh.com/blog Adam

    Looks like googleapis was down for about 30 minutes. Nettus was extremely slow for me. I tried Twitter to see what was happened. Too bad twitter is also using googleapis to host some javascripts, I think, and the searching function did not seem to be working. Everything is fine now, I see a few people on the twitter said they have the same problem, so at least, this is not just for me.

    Humm!!! CDN may not be reliable??? (You probably remember that the amazon S3 was down a few weeks ago)

    • http://www.61dh.com/blog Adam

      And, those footer designs are awesome! Thank you for sharing!

    • http://hosting4developers.com Hosting 4 Developers

      Considering how many websites use googleapis it’s scary to think about the effect is has when it’s down. Might make some people think twice about using it. I’ll continue to use it for the time being, but if there are any more downtimes like this, then…

  • Fynn

    Foxtie site… WOW! Just wow….

  • Fynn

    By the way.. I think sunrisedesign.com background + footer design looks a lot like viget.com.

  • Dave

    Very pretty stuff, nice work! Still, I’m hoping that the trend of very tall footers goes away soon. Actually, I thought it was already over. :)

    I’d make an exception in cases like the above, with exceptional graphics content, or in cases where a lot of information must be displayed and there’s no other good place to put it.

  • http://www.web-lovers.de Rolf

    The one from . thepixel is very nice, love it

  • http://www.anthonyterrell.com Anthony

    Some absolutely stunning sites, oh yeah we’re talking about footers. I like the horizontal scroll from deanoakley. Although I don’t think I would ever use something on one of my personal sites. I just think it’s a nice touch that I’ve only came across a few times.

    I’m more of a subtle footer type of guy. For people to know it’s there, here is the information, but it’s not too in your face. But some really creative takes here that make me think twice.

    Great list, thanks!

    -Anthony

  • http://www.designzillas.com johnny

    Awesome footer collection! http://www.Designzillas.com does a great job also, and they use a cave-drawing style that really ties in well with their brand in the footer. It’s worth checking out!

  • http://www.danwellman.co.uk Dan Wellman

    Great round-up :)

    I’m a fan of the full-fat footer. I like it chunky and expressive, and I don’t subscribe to the ‘below the fold’ argument…

  • http://www.kapkoi.tk aziq

    these are awesome design.And really inspiring too.

  • http://www.antoineguedes.com Antoine Guédès

    I am so happy to see my footer’s friend website, Rubbik, on this post.
    Great article, with a lot of inspiration. Thank you!

  • http://www.walloffilm.com Marcel Doornbos

    Nice list of Footers. I love it.

    but I still miss http://www.walloffilm.com It has a nice footer designed like it’s the bottom of a wall and the walk of fame from LA. It should really be in the list :)

  • http://www.kyee.co.uk Kyee

    Im pleased you like my work guys.. keep up the great work on this site :)

  • http://www.solushunzindia.com web designer delhi india

    Another great post on tutsplus.

    this site truely ROCK

  • http://www.vinayvidyasagar.com/ Vinay Vidyasagar

    Now that’s some really cool footers there. I always thought you should be able to do much more with footers instead of putting those crazy boring privacy policies. Thanks for the article.

  • http://TJ.Abderrahmane.com Abderrahmane TJ

    Shame on you. this article is full of “Déjà Vu” :/

  • http://www.jsxtech.com Jaspal Singh

    Really cool footer designs.
    Thanks for sharing.

  • http://www.blim.us Marcel

    Great footer designs.
    Thanks for inspiring me

  • http://www.vectelligence.com Ilie Ciorba

    Even if my blog’s footer doesn’t have to many illustrations, I’m a huge fan of them.

  • http://limefox.co.uk Web Design

    I don’t know why I love footers so much. Designers can be so creative and these examples are inspirational – Morphix being my favourite.

  • http://newdailyblog.blogspot.com Tahsin Hasan

    Really nice collection of footers. Thanks for sharing, you can also find helpful topics on newdailyblog.blogspot.com

  • http://www.ogvidius.com/ Oggy

    Thanks for including mine in the minimal section! A great list.

  • http://www.cashbackprinting.com CP Printing

    These examples are a great way to get some new ideas!

  • Saso

    Cool designs.

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  • http://www.nb-nc.com Grinding machine

    I think this is really a great thing to find out the do follow blogs. I like some of those tips and i hope they will give the desired results.

  • http://www.corporatelogos.ws corporate logos

    I must say all of them are really stunning designs. Really good-looking and go with the subject of being professional. I think they are really well done.

  • phil

    cool screenshoots, but i’m sorry none of them that i like..

  • http://www.codecrunchers.net Kevin Groenendaal

    Where’s number fourty?

    Great footers!

  • http://snailbird.com Nikki Jeske

    Hey thanks for including me! This is a really great list – so many new ones I’ve never seen! :D

  • http://www.rubbik.com Rubbik

    Thank you for including us ! We are so proud and glad to be listed by NetTuts :-)

    Unfortunately, it seems that you don’t have all the footer’s illustrations on the screenshot you’ve made :-/
    The page didn’t seems to be loaded correctly.

    Anyway, thank you again, it is a honnor for us :-)

  • arnold

    This web design inspiration round ups ,are sometimes tiring there are many blogs that post the same content again and again, Im sorry but seing this stuff in nettuts are awful.

  • http://jenskanis.nl Jens

    Awww.. where’s number fourty? But no worries guys, you can always put mine in the list! (check my website)

  • http://hanschristian.net Hans Christian

    I really love this footers, my favourite is #10, absolutely amazing :-O

    Thanks for sharing!

  • http://www.ormanclark.com mynameisorman

    I’m a bit slow but thanks for including my footer :)

  • http://loberg.matt@gmail.com Matthew Loberg

    I think ThinkGeek’s footer http://www.thinkgeek.com/

  • Ant Gray

    I like big footers — and use them instead of sidebar, — so it not distracting from content.

  • Rodi

    Think LivingDesign footer is awesome http://www.livingdesign.info

  • http://www.baihe107.com baihe107

    very nice, I like them!

  • http://www.vision18.co.in/studio/ Shahid

    Amazing footer design…..http://www.vision18.co.in/studio/

  • http://www.vision18.co.in/studio Saifu

    amazing… i like bimbisicuramente…

  • pesho

    Nice
    really awesome collection <3

  • http://igrowideas.com Justin

    Amazing collection. These footers definitely cater to the “big footer” trend.

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