The fat footer design trend started in early 2008 and seems to be ruling the 2009. Fat footer are very handy for giving users context within your site, offering another set of navigation to users or just for deep-linking for SEO gains.

Few benefits of fat footer designs are

• You can use this as a sitemap for your site or blog.
• You can use this space to promote lot of your important content.
• Some user use them to navigate form one page to other

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