How to make a Footer

[pokerleo]

Hi
Maybe is in the wrong place to ask but i would need help making a footer i have heard it should be possible to do one in words but i cant understand how, anybody that can help me?

[bill]

Welcome to WebmasterWorld pokerleo.

A footer is just some text at the bottom of your page.

<hr><p>This is a text footer</p>

[pokerleo]

Tanks i had figure out that much, its how to do a footer i was wondering about. I have heard i can do 1 in word but i cant understand how.

[g1smd]

Other than typing out the characters that you need, as per the example above, and saving the file, I really don't understand the question.

[bill]

You're going to have to explain what you want in a little more detail. What do you mean, "how to do a footer"? On a web page? On a website (site-wide)?

[pokerleo]

well i have 60 websites and i wanted to learn how this works so i can just have and add a footer like when they ask for footer url i don't know what to input to the file or what ever to make it a footer. and as it seems i will never understand

[g1smd]

When what asks for footer URL?

[piatkow]

Sounds to me as if you are either using a template that expects you to define a common footer in a file and use it in each page or are just being confused by a menu option on your editing software.

Before we go off into assumptions perhaps you should give us some more detail.

[pokerleo]

I want it for such things as you said forms that ask for it and stuff like link exchange sites that you putt out there code and stuff i tout it was 1 and same thing what ever you want to use it for and i know that i should be able to do it in microsofts words but i just dont understand how to do that part.

[alt131]

Hi pokerleo,

I think there are some mixed messages here.

A footer in Microsoft Word is an area in the margin that will print out at the bottom of the page. It is commonly used for page numbers, etc. Search "footer" in MS Word's help for more information and step=by-step instructions for creating and viewing them.

The term footer in web design terms is an area at the visual bottom of the "page" (web document) that can be put to lots of uses - the one at webmasterworld contains links, copyright information, etc. Bill gave you an example of the html markup to code one.

What you would submit to a link exchange is the url (uri) of your website so it can be linked to eg http://www.example.com.

Microsoft Word can be used to code html - but I doubt many here would recommend it, and I would strongly encourage you not to do so.

Note - haven't looked at this for a long time, and only on older versions
However, if you are using Word to create web pages, I think that although you may select the option to insert a footer/header (as if you were working with a printed document), when you return to html mode/ View in "Web Layout" mode they cannot be seen/disappear. I think you would have to select the option to insert a "link" instead.
Someone with more experience coding in Word feel free to make other suggestions

[pokerleo]

Ok thats they way i have read that i should do a footer, if its not correctly using words please let me know some other way i can do a footer i can have in one place and that would be on several pages so if i just change 1 link in the original footer place it should be showing the new changes n all sides i have a footer code on .

thats going to work for the link exchange sites also this is the big problem since i know it can be done just need to learn how.

[g1smd]

In that case look at using PHP includes or somesuch.

You can then include the same piece of code on every page, and when the text needs to change, you only need to edit the single small file to update the whole site.