Moving on to the footer

The final part of the site that we need to turn our attention to is the footer. In the case of the Carborelli's site, this only contains some "small print" information, claiming copyright over the content and providing links to the developer and the CMS—WordPress. At the moment, they are floated to each side of the page, which looks fine on large screens but messy on phones, as shown in the following screenshot:

Many other sites, including a fair few I've developed, will include much more in the footer, perhaps incorporating what's known as a "fat footer" with links, recent blog listings, or other information. When we're developing a WordPress site, the best way to build this kind of footer is by using one or more widget areas.

We'll come back to the issue of fat footers and how to change their layout shortly but first, let's look at the Carborelli's footer. It looks fine on tablets in both orientations, so we'll alter it for phones in landscape mode, which will also...