What Makes a Great Website Footer?

Over the years we have developed a fairly standard footer which has been tried and tested to perfectly suit most of our clients needs.

What’s in a footer you might ask? As you can see below, quite a lot!

‘Copyright 2010 XXX’ identifies our client as the copyright holder of all materials on the website
Copyright year automatically updates each year
Privacy Policy links to the Privacy Policy page which has clear and relevant information on storing of peoples details, website content & mistakes, copyright and more. Our clients can update this page to suit their purposes in the Extras > Privacy Policy area of the CMS Admin.
E.g. http://www.evolvedwebsites.com.au/extras/privacy-policy/p/8
Sitemap link gives both visitors and search engines a birds-eye view of all pages on the website, section by section.
E.g. http://www.evolvedwebsites.com.au/extras/website-map/p/4
‘Page updated 21 July 2010′ shows your visitors how often the website is updated. Each page automatically shows the correct date when it was last updated in the Admin.
We also send this to Google and the visitors Browser to save time and resources so they can ‘cache’ information until the date on a page changes.
‘valid HTML | CSS by Evolved Websites‘ does 2 things, it shows that the website has been built to proper web standards (valid HTML and CSS) and provides a link to our website if anyone is curious who built such a great site