I am forever looking for inspiring websites. Here are a few that have done well in developing their websites with creative headers and footers. (Footers can often be overlooked, so I thought that it would be a good idea to showcase a few websites that do not ignore this useful part of the web page).
http://www.sproutfund.org/spring/
I enjoy the newsprint-inspired illustration featuring a bird and a city scape. The website uses age green and red-brown to give it an earthy feel. This website feels very much like a printed graphic with imagery and a large main font, one third of a way down the page.
Washtenaw Community College
http://www.wccnet.edu/
The footer area of this website contains a winter illustration of the campus, which blends into the page's background. Lovely.
Ryan Scherf
http://ryanscherf.net/
This personal website features a mountain and ocean theme.
Carbonica
http://www.carbonica.org/
The footer of this website features a natural theme with bright green rolling hills. Peaceful.
Kulturbanause Blog
http://www.kulturbanause.de/
This website's design extends from the header to the footer with impressive rock formations and a sky filled with clouds. Very creative illustration.
Ma.tt
http://ma.tt/
A comic book feel and primary colours make this website stand out with a bold header and footer.
Rubidine
http://rubidine.com/
This site is creatively designed, and not just in its headers and footers. The navigation scrolls with the website, and the website features many illustrations, so all parts of the website are unique but maintain a consistent theme. I also love the use of colour: lime, pink, tan, purple-red. The cityscape in the footer is animated to blink. I appreciate the attention to detail and the ideas.
N.Design Studio
http://www.ndesign-studio.com/
Pastel swirls create a watercolour of colour with fantasy and under-the-sea visual inspired for the header and footer.
Jan-Eike Koormann
http://koormann.de/
This website features an outdoor theme. The header of the page is a bright blue sky with clouds. The footer displays a scene of bright green rolling hills and a pathway with some trees and a duck. To add more interest, the pale blue body of the page contains clouds moving across the scene; I enjoy these little attentions to detail.
InfinVision
http://www.infinvision.com
Quirky illustrations and clever font styling make this website. I love the footer and its great use of colour and illustrations with landmarks and the 'back to top' icon that scrolls with the page.
Rubbik
http://www.rubbik.com/
Another outdoor footer theme adds character to the footer on this website. I only wish that they had spent as much time developing the top of the site.
Gorilla Coffee
http://www.gorillacoffee.com/
The footer uses a cityscape in Flash.
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