Changing the Footer Text in your OM4 website

You can define text and images in your website footer that will be automatically included at the bottom of every page on your site.

A few ideas on what you can include:

• a copyright statement, for example © 2008. All rights reserved.
• a set of links to important web pages, for example, terms and conditions, privacy policy, a sitemap
• a mini sitemap with multiple columns showing links to your site content (have a look at Have a Mint for an example)

You can change your footer by logging into your site and using Dashboard, Presentation, Site Design.

Scroll down to the the Footer section. You can enter HTML commands in your footer. Here are some common examples, showing the code you enter in the Footer Text field and the text that will result on the page.

© 2008. All rights reserved.	© 2008. All rights reserved.
<a href="/sitemap/">Contact</a>	Contact

To use special characters such as © you need to lookup the HTML Entitities. That shows you, for example, that using © results in the copyright symbol ©.

To implement a mini sitemap with multiple columns, you may need to include a table in your footer, and some special CSS formatting rules may be needed to get the look right.

A quick note on using a Copyright notice. Firstly, keep in mind your responsibility to make your own inquiries and get legal advice if necessary. The way copyright law works in most countries (under the Berne Convention) means that you don’t need a copyright notice to have copyright protection. A copyright notice affect the result if you sue someone for copyright infringement - see this article on Copyright Myths.

If you do use a copyright symbol with the year next to it, you may want to update the year to demonstrate you are paying attention to copyright on your site.