A lot of people do not put much stock into their footer’s appearance, or how it affects the user.  You should keep in mind that this may be the last impression that a reader or visitor might have, so you might as well make it a good one.  If you have a plain, straight, single column footer, the visitor might remember your site or blog as being dull.  With blogs, it is especially important to keep the visitor wanting to come back, so you need to keep them interested all the way through.  Here are the top seven footers around the blogosphere that draw you in, and are still functional.

Web Designer Wall – Not only does the soft palette make everything easy to read, the artistic designs match the topic of the blog, and the post-it note idea along with the cutout WordPress logo are great touches that take this footer and make it worth reading.

Gomediazine – The idea of having a poll here is quite useful.  Making the footer interactive is a novel idea.  The user showcase is also something I’m sure many of the user’s pay attention to, as I am sure they would love to see their own photo’s on there.  The most comment section with links is also a great way to give back to the readers and commenters with a little free exposure for their own blogs.  Overall, this is an above average footer due to the poll and showcase.

Spoongraphics – The Spoongraphics blog footer doesn’t have all that much special to it in terms of content, but the three-column layout is always a good thing to go with, and the overlapping images create a three-dimension feeling, and the vector images above go along with the theme quite nicely.  It is very aesthetically pleasing, and gets the job done.

Sohtanaka – This CSS designer’s blog footer is wonderful to look at.  It uses many different hues of blue.  It tells you a little bit of the author without words at all, and also shows off his favorite links, as well as where he is featured.  He, again, goes with the three-column footer, which is my personal favorite, and is a common theme with most solid footers.

Carsonified – This doesn’t have any content at all, but the perforated edge to signify the ending is a nice touch, and since the site is all about creativity, having doodles makes a lot of sense.  Plus, the drawings are actually well done little cartoons, and just give the reader a good thing to marvel at for a while after reading all the way down.

Davidhellmann – While I can’t read German, I did follow a link here to David’s personal blog, and I have to say the footer is great.  It really is personal, having his basically living room on your screen.  It shows you what he likes, the latest articles, standard footer stuff, but the image is just great.  It makes you feel you are sitting on his chair and he is telling you what he thinks across the room.  It is such an awesome, and unique idea, I’m surprised I haven’t seen many copy him yet.

Branded07 – This web designer’s footer is a wonderful illustration of penguins wrapped around the main content, but that’s not the kicker.  The best part is the email feature embedded into the rock.  There’s something about engraving something into stone that makes it seem much more personal, and that’s what blog are all about anyhow.