How to Add Three Column Footer Widget in Blogger

You might have seen a three column footer at many professional or commercial blogs. Where you can add stuffs. Take my three column footer as example. Footer make visitors busy and give him a good impression at End of your blog. It contains 3 columns widgets where you can add your own choice of widgets. You can easily add this footer in blogger and customize it as you want. If you are using WordPress Thesis Theme than check out this tutorial to add Footer Widget  in Thesis. See a screenshot.

Backup your template before adding following footer

Step 2:

Backup Your Template

Step 3:

Search for ]]></b:skin> now paste the following CSS code just above ]]></b:skin>

#lower {
border-top: #737373 6px solid;
margin:auto;
font-family: Georgia;
width: 960px;
padding: 0px 0px 10px 0px;
background:#1f1f1f;
}
#lower a {
color: #DBDBDB;
font-family: Georgia;
}
#lower-wrapper {
margin:auto;
font-family: Georgia;
padding: 20px 0px 20px 0px;
width: 960px;
}
#lowerbar-wrapper {
background:#1f1f1f;
float: left;
color: #ebedee;
font-family: Georgia;
margin: 0px 5px auto;
padding-bottom: 20px;
width: 32%;
text-align: justify;
font-size:100%;
line-height: 1.6em;
word-wrap: break-word;
overflow: hidden;
}
.lowerbar {margin: 0; padding: 0;}
.lowerbar .widget {margin: 0; padding: 10px 20px 0px 20px;}
.lowerbar h2 {
margin: 0px 0px 10px 0px;
padding: 3px 0px 3px 0px;
text-align: left;
color:#fff;
text-transform:uppercase;
font: bold 16px Arial, Tahoma, Verdana;
border-bottom:3px solid #666666;
}
.lowerbar ul {
list-style:none;
margin: 0;
padding: 0;
}.lowerbar li a {
width: 265px;
font-family: Georgia;
background: #3f3f3f;
border: 1px solid #111;
line-height: 1.4em;
-moz-border-radius: 5px;
padding: 0.5em;
margin-bottom: 11px;
margin-right: 3px;
-webkit-border-radius: 5px;
overflow: hidden;
color:#000000;
}.lowerbar li a:visited {
width: 265px;
font-family: Georgia;
background: #3f3f3f;
border: 1px solid #111;
line-height: 1.4em;
-moz-border-radius: 5px;
padding: 0.5em;
margin-bottom: 11px;
margin-right: 3px;
-webkit-border-radius: 5px;
overflow: hidden;
color:#000000;
}.lowerbar li a:hover {
background: #4f4f4f;
border: 1px solid #7a7a7a;
line-height: 1.4em;
-moz-border-radius: 5px;
padding: 0.5em; -webkit-border-radius: 5px;
overflow: hidden;
color:#000000;
}.lowerbar a {
font-family: Georgia;
background: #3f3f3f;
border: 1px solid #111;
line-height: 1.4em;
float:left;
-moz-border-radius: 5px;
padding: 0.5em;
margin-right: 3px;
margin-bottom: 11px;
-webkit-border-radius: 5px;
overflow: hidden;
color:#000000;
}.lowerbar a:hover {
background: #4f4f4f;
border: 1px solid #7a7a7a;
line-height: 1.4em;
-moz-border-radius: 5px;
padding: 0.5em; -webkit-border-radius: 5px;
overflow: hidden;
color:#000000;
}

Step 4:

Now search for </body> and paste following code just above </body>

<div id=’lower’>
<div id=’lower-wrapper’>
<div id=’lowerbar-wrapper’>
<b:section class=’lowerbar’ id=’lowerbar1′ preferred=’yes’>
</b:section>
</div>
<div id=’lowerbar-wrapper’>
<b:section class=’lowerbar’ id=’lowerbar2′ preferred=’yes’>
</b:section>
</div>
<div id=’lowerbar-wrapper’>
<b:section class=’lowerbar’ id=’lowerbar3′ preferred=’yes’>
</b:section>
</div>
<div style=’clear: both;’/>
</div> </div>

Step 5:

Save your template .Now visit the page Layout > Page Elements and start adding widgets! :>>

Customization

You can easily customize the look and colours of the this footer widget. I have bolded the important parts in the CSS code above. Read the descriptions below carefully to better stylize your three column widget.

• background:#333434; Changing the six digit colour code will change the background colour of this widget.
• width: 960px; This is the width of the widget. If you want you can adjust this width value in accordance with the width of your blog.
• background:#fff; and width: 32%; is the background colour and width of the three columns where the widgets are added.
• color:#0084ce; This is the Colour of Title Headings
• font: bold 14px Arial, Tahoma, Verdana; Edit this to change the font size and family.
• border-bottom:3px solid #0084ce; Edit this to change the thickness, style and colour of the border that appears at the bottom of Title Heading

That’s All

A new tutorial on four column footer will be soon posted till than enjoy this one