{"id":354,"date":"2015-02-18T21:39:27","date_gmt":"2015-02-19T02:39:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hannahatkin.com\/blog\/?p=354"},"modified":"2015-02-20T09:43:54","modified_gmt":"2015-02-20T14:43:54","slug":"fat-footer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hannahatkin.com\/blog\/fat-footer\/","title":{"rendered":"Fat Footer"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Word:\u00a0<\/strong>Fat footer<\/p>\n<p><strong>Definition:\u00a0<\/strong>A form of secondary navigation located at the bottom of the page, typically taking up a considerable amount of page real-estate and serving as a shortcut to hierarchical content.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_360\" style=\"width: 614px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a data-rel=\"lightbox\" href=\"http:\/\/hannahatkin.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/Screen-Shot-2015-02-18-at-9.24.37-PM.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-360\" class=\"wp-image-360 size-large\" src=\"http:\/\/hannahatkin.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/Screen-Shot-2015-02-18-at-9.24.37-PM-1024x372.png\" alt=\"Screen Shot 2015-02-18 at 9.24.37 PM\" width=\"604\" height=\"219\" srcset=\"https:\/\/hannahatkin.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/Screen-Shot-2015-02-18-at-9.24.37-PM-1024x372.png 1024w, https:\/\/hannahatkin.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/Screen-Shot-2015-02-18-at-9.24.37-PM-300x109.png 300w, https:\/\/hannahatkin.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/Screen-Shot-2015-02-18-at-9.24.37-PM.png 1127w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 604px) 100vw, 604px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-360\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Williams-Sonoma fat footer<\/p><\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Thoughts:\u00a0<\/strong>Fat footers are typically used on sites with an incredible amount of information and lengthier page content. These sections are extremely helpful to link popular site content that may not be directly relevant to the selected page itself. It also acts as a visual anchor and an affordance that a page has come to an end while providing additional page view opportunities.\u00a0Fat footers also present\u00a0space for graphics, social media links, and newsletter promotions. These big guys have graduated from\u00a0more than just links lists.<\/p>\n<p>While I know this may come off as a broken record to you\u00a0consistent \"UX 365\" readers, but there is a debate on this topic amongst us! While there are clear benefits to such \"obese footers\" (as Jakob Nielsen\u00a0once called them), there are also thoughts of too many links and a persistent\u00a0feeling of \"spamminess\".<\/p>\n<p>Both points are well taken\u00a0and I venture to guess that like with most polarizing topics, it comes down to a case by case basis with specific business goals in mind.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Question:\u00a0<\/strong>How does the persistence of continuous scroll effect the future of the footer, regardless of its size?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Word:\u00a0Fat footer Definition:\u00a0A form of secondary navigation located at the bottom of the page, typically taking up a considerable amount of page real-estate and serving as a shortcut to hierarchical content. &nbsp; &nbsp; Thoughts:\u00a0Fat footers are typically used on sites with an incredible amount of information and lengthier page content. These sections are extremely helpful [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":362,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[23,95],"tags":[110,111,43,8,9],"class_list":["post-354","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-user-interface","category-visual-design","tag-fat-footer","tag-footer","tag-navigation","tag-user-experience","tag-ux"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hannahatkin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/354","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/hannahatkin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/hannahatkin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hannahatkin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hannahatkin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=354"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/hannahatkin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/354\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":371,"href":"https:\/\/hannahatkin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/354\/revisions\/371"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hannahatkin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/362"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hannahatkin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=354"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hannahatkin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=354"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hannahatkin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=354"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}