Web Design: Pages for the Footer

There are alot of pages that you don’t want to waste your valuable navigation space for, yet you still need to include on your website somewhere. These pages include: a privacy page, a disclosure page, a disclaimer page, an about page and a contact page.

Although the About and the Contact pages should be included in the navigation bar if they are essential to your website, for many smaller informal sites don’t need them in the navigation bar.

Privacy

The privacy page should discuss what you use collected emails for and how you protect the privacy of all your visitors. You can search online for examples of privacy policies and write your own with someone else’s privacy policy as reference.

Disclaimer

A disclaimer page is useful for people marketing goods or some other service that attempts to bring high ROI either in terms of monetary compensation, web traffic, or something else. You should put a disclaimer if it’s not guaranteed that they can recieve the same results you are advertising.

Disclosure

This page basically tells people if you are profiting off of recommendations or advertisments or if there are other external sources of influence that might be influencing what you are writing. Some people also contest that you must have a disclosure policy in order to ethically market affiliate products.

About and Contact

These two pages are almost always a must. The about page should be a short blurb about your website and whatever information about your or your site that you wish to disclose to others. The contact page generally should provide ways to contact you and usually also contains an email form.