🎨 Theme Design What's in your footer?

[joelr]

A lot of forums have a footer simply out of tradition. Do you have a footer that contains meaningful information? Or do you have a footer just because?

Is a footer on mobile as important? A lot of sites such as Facebook, Reddit, Discord don't even show a footer because of infinite scroll.

 

[Matt M]

A lot of bigger brands have statutory information in the footer (policies, SLAs, etc) that their compliance departments demand stay.

 

[Shawn Gossman]

I've taken a different approach.

Minimalism.

I've opted to take everything out of my footer aside from what XenForo requires to be in there. No extra links, images, or CTAs.

The idea is to make the forum theme as mobile-friendly as possible. One way to do that is remove the clutter and focus on the product at hand, which is the community.

 

[Cory]

The forum hosts copyright primarily. I also have affiliates near the footer for boards that affiliate with us. I keep important information up front in the header and our fixed sidebar.

 

[Ravenfreak]

I've only have copyright information in the footer of all my communities, both for the software I'm using and for the theme. I used to focus on adding links to the footer of my forums but I haven't done this in a long time.

 

[desbest]

Nothing on every website, unless I want to be tongue-in-cheek by regurgitating the header in its entirety again.

I'm not a fan of having big footers, as under my design style, it keeps the fidelity too high, by there not being a clear sense of hierarchy and no clear sense of immersive zoning.