Website Footer Design Best Practices
                     Website Footer 
Design Best 
Practices
• A sitemap has been used as a promotional as well as informative tool 
since a very long time. It has been used actively by all websites and 
search engines in order to provide ease to the visitors in searching 
their information. 
• To view our own rules and best practices for what to include 
in a website footer design, read down through this list.
1. Copyright
• If you only had one thing in your footer, it should be copyright 
in website footer. 
•  The Company Copyright for the current year should also be present at 
the footer to show the originality of the site.
2. Contact
• It's a web design need. In the bottom right (or center) of the 
footer, you'll usually find a "contact" link.
• Not an email link, but a link to the contact page with a 
contact form. 
3. Sitemap
• This is the most popular link in footers, and it takes you to the 
sitemap in HTML format. 
• Visitors seldom follow these links, although they, like the XML 
sitemap, may aid search engines in finding information.
4. Icons of social media
• Visitors from social media sites are especially welcome. We, 
on the other hand, despise it when visitors leave and go to 
Facebook, Twitter, or YouTube.
5. Phone and Fax numbers
• A phone number with a local area code, like the address, 
shows Google that you're a local business. 
• When seen on a mobile device, a phone number should 
instantly turn into a clickable button, just as the map button.