35 Inspiring Headers and Footers

Posted by Gisele Muller on Nov 29, 2010 | 16 Comments

Almost a year ago, 12/31/2009 to be more precise, I wrote my first article here at WDL, Headers and Footers that Grab You Coming and Going. So now, 11 months and 47 articles later, I decided to do a new showcase of headers and footers to inspire you.

Headers and footers are extremely important in web design, as we mentioned last year, they are powerful sections of a website and it’s very important that you take good care of them while putting together your site. From clean and minimal to colorful and illustrated, you can really get your viewers attention with beautiful and well designed headers and footers. Check out some inspiring examples we’ve gathered.

Dunnellon

InfinVision

Teixido

89 Bytes

Shelly Cooper

heyIndy

Bencurious

Kevin Monger

MumMade

Agency Ball

Bottlerocket Creative

Amazee Labs

Plume Creation

nGen works

Shawn Johnston

designzoom.in

mr. diggles

Blog.SpoonGraphics

Tease

intrepidolive.com

share some sugar

Kyle Meyer

weberica

Quantify

Mick Evans

yumit

Chipotle

Stephen Caver

Catered by Kate

BBQ War

Creative Mash

Gareth Hughes

Food Curated

Cheer Up!

United Pixelworkers

Source:

The Best Designs
The CSS Awards
Sites of the Week – Abduzeedo

About the Author

Gisele Muller is someone that recently discovered a new career online. A person that really likes technology, design, photography and creativity. An eternal geek wannabe, tech fan and a communication lover! Current location: San Bruno, CA – USA. Twitter: @gismullr

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16 comments

Angelee
November 29, 2010
Without headers and footers, you’d fail the web standards so I couldn’t agree more on its importance. From the list above, I love Weberica’s portfolio..
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Tobias
November 29, 2010
Hi Gisele,

thanks for putting those together. I think I just found some inpiration for some portfolio designs. Thanks alot.

Take care.

Tobias
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Terry Dunn
November 29, 2010
Gisele,

What a great collection. Very inspiring. In fact, it’s reminded me how I need a site redesign, and not just so my header and footer matches, but to create that visual completeness you get from looking at your showcase sites.

Terry
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Anoop Thomas
November 29, 2010
fantastic Designs… Well done Gisele……..
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Amu
November 29, 2010
Absolutely gorgeous!
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Pablo
November 29, 2010
Gisele, nice! Great collection! Thanks.
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Jeff
November 29, 2010
Gisele,

Thank you for this post, very cool. I saw it via twitter from @SeanMarlarkey

Much Success -

Jeff
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Coleman
November 29, 2010
Love Plume Creation.

Can someone please check out my header and footer? I think it’s the only part of my website i actually got right. Any feedback would be appreciated. Thanks!
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dave
November 29, 2010
Great collection, thanks for the inspiring designs.
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Balaji
November 29, 2010
ngenworks ,.sharesomesuga and teixido are my favorite

nice work thank you for sharing….
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Scott
November 29, 2010
Great collection, my faves are “Hey Indy”, “BBQ War” and “United Pixelworkers”.
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CreativeMash
November 29, 2010
Thanks for including our site (Creative Mash) in your post – the design was partly inspired by your article last year so keep up the good work!
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DEKDaddy
November 29, 2010
Thanks for posting these. My favorites are “Stephen Caver”, “BBQ War” and NGEN Works is one of my favorite sites.
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Bryan
November 30, 2010
WoW! Alot of them are really good. I find it hard to choose a favorite. Thanks for sharing these. Though I find Kevin Monger really unique.
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Tani
November 30, 2010
I loooooove your posts! Great work. Congratulations.
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Buzz
December 27, 2010
Very inspiring collection, thanks for sharing.
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