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引用自：www.smashingmagazine.com

这是今天早上看到的一篇来自www.smashingmagazine.com的文章，给出了一些大多数设计师常常所忽略FOOTERS的设计的想法。尝试翻译了前面的一段，应该对设计是有所帮助。

以下是部分翻译：（初级水平失误莫怪）

按照传统的网页设计原则，所有不太重要的信息都放到了页面的底部，大多数用户都觉得是这样的，并且被更多的设计师深信无疑。地址元素在页面的底端很难被访问用户注意到，他们所需要的信息很容易被忘记或者被忽略掉而没有给予适当的关注
实际上，很多FOOTERS设计的非常单调和无趣，设计师通常使用页面底部来提及应该在页面上部位置所不能找到的东西，比如W3C的按钮, ©信息, 回到顶部，联络细节等。但是如果大部分设计师忘记他，为何不去利用它呢?为何不使用FOOTTER给设计浏览者留下更深刻的印象呢？他们真的一点也不这么认为么？

这里张贴一些目前有创造性的例子以及FOOTER的想法和设计。我们尝试找到一些流行的趋势和有趣的方法，你或许可以在你的项目上使用并进一步发展它。

1. Imitate proximity to the ground（模仿地平面的设计）

Well, that’s quite strange. But we’ve observed this trend too often to dismiss it. Many designers tend to imitate the proximity to the ground. This means that they attempt to complete layouts with illustrations of the ground — in such cases trees, birds, buildings and the horizontal perspective are usual. Funny characters, mascots, illustrations and hand-drawing are also typical for such footers.

YoDiv sends little bubbles in race.

Volll has a family of octopus and an umbrella on the ground.

Vimeo takes a look at little humans from user’s perspective.

Kulturbanause.de with a waterfall and water ground. Beautiful and (really) unusual WordPress blog design.

The Rissington Podcast has a helicopter plane ready to fly. Comic in use.

Rapidweaver has taken care of the smallest details. This sweet language selection fits perfectly to the site design.

MB Dragan loves hand-drawing. We too. Simple and beautiful.

Miloslav Lešetický is an illustrator which is why one of his illustrations is placed in the footer.

Paul Otaneda with a light green theme in the footer. Icons, a tree and three birds inclusive.

TNTPixel — oh-oh, you better be careful with this one.

Roman Leinwather has some green flowers for us…

…and on Web4Biz.ro it seems to be quite cold at this period of time.

A little city on StrawPollNow.com.

2. Colors clearly separate content and footer（与页面其他地方颜色不同的FOOTER）

Since the main function of the footer is to complete the layout, often it is given a color which has a high contrast to colors dominating in the overall site design. Vivid colors can be observed as often as dark ones.

Billy Hughes at War with Billy Hughes doodled in the footer.

HEBAtec has a number of different features in the footer. Among them RSS feed and a search box.

Freelenz.at knows how to arrange blog postings, comments, RSS feed icon and Flickr thumbnails. And, oh, a beautiful plant too!

Viget.com provides navigation in categories and archives.

Ungarbage with (probably) too many links.

SprintBio plays with variations of green.

Blogsolid offers an icon parade in the footer.

Bits & Pixels has a quite colorful footer with some icons. The design fits perfectly to the overall site design which is pretty colorful too.

Still, often overall layout colors and the footer design are very similar. Example: City of Grace Mesa

3. Illustrations in use（使用插画）

Often illustrations are used to give the footer some particular meaning it needs to convey. Possibilities are endless. In most cases designers use vivid images and cartoons.

Isn’t he sweet? Apart from that, he is Crazy and Funny. At least that’s what his creators promise.

Legendary Aircraft has a toolbox in its footer.

Bistro Williams offers juicy fruits at the bottom of its site.

Pil.hu with a pen, an envelope and a desk.

?ukasz Tyra?a shows some hand-drawn sketches.

So does Bart-Jan Verhoef.

We feature Nick La’s Webdesignerwall quite often, but it definitely deserves it. The attention to details is amazing.

Us Trendy — all in one place, including RSS-feed-icon, swivels and a butterfly. Isn’t it too much?

Dandelionpath with swirls, curves and flowers.

Colorful curves at the bottom of AIGA Los Angeles.

Hicksdesign with a retro-theme and brief contact details.

Codex Transportica — simple and distinctive.

Nicolas Le Bas presents a footer in a completely different way. Three info-cards are placed next to each other, at different angles, with same backgrounds.

Johanna Hallin clips the footer to the site layout.

Catydesign’s cat is sweet…

…and Olieng’s lobster scorpion is even animated!

Link suggestions in Catalyst Studios sketchbook.

The fingerprints at the bottom of the layout on Instant Amber.

4. Footers with advanced functions（赋予FOOTERS刚高级的操作）

Apart from visual appeal, footers can be used effectively to convey some important information quickly and shortly. Contact information, address, sitemap, main sections can therefore often be found in the footer. However, also further functionalities, such as RSS-feed, e-mail-subscription and tag clouds can be placed there too.

Ten Thousand Things presents contact information, some advertisement and the most popular tags.

The Greg Brady Project combines a contact form and the footer.

Rahul Joshi has 4 columns: one for Flickr images, one for further pages, one for copyright and one for contact details.

Lucy Blackmore has a stick-it-note which leads to the home page of the site.

Paul Wallas has placed a tag cloud into his footer.

Arrival Design gets right to the point. Here is what they do. And here is how you contact them.

Dennis Blöte with contact details and a minimalistic contact form.

Media Ambassador offers e-mail newsletters…

… and so does Hopkingdesign. Not a good idea as you won’t attract many subscribers.

The same holds for the search box. Footer has a lot of place, but it’s not really helpful to place a search box only in the footer.