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also called site footer
The bottom section repeated across pages, holding secondary links and legal detail.
The bottom strip of every page.
What It Is
You will find Footer in the Website layer, alongside the rest of Structure. The working definition is simple: the bottom section repeated across pages, holding secondary links and legal detail.
It is a label with a settled working definition, so the value is in using it the same way every time. Once it is defined that clearly, arguments about it usually stop.
How It's Used
Footer comes up in site builds, page structure and the technical decisions underneath them. It is usually discussed together with Navigation, Privacy Policy and Sitemap. The practical test is whether everyone in the room means the same thing by it.
Why It Matters
Getting Footer wrong is expensive in a quiet way. When it is unclear, the site still launches — it just quietly underperforms. It is worth pinning down before anyone builds on top of it.
Think of it as a name on a box. Open the box and this is what is inside: The bottom strip of every page.
Termshift™
How the meaning shifts depending on who is using it, and where.
Practitioners use Footer as shorthand and expect no explanation — the bottom section repeated across pages, holding secondary links and legal detail.
Outside the industry, most people would just say: the bottom strip of every page.
The Bottom Line
If you only keep one thing about Footer: the bottom strip of every page. Everything after that is detail.