Well, I cleaned up ffs css a bit. It’s more legible now. Also, inspired by your more useful footer design, I just implemented that on the site. Of course, the footer is within the “container” div for now, so it looks odd.
We’ll have to place it outside to run across the whole bottom. But with the current blue plasmoid background, that will look odd as well.
I get the feeling that the blue background is on its way out. It is a relic of the past, it’s been with the site since the beginning. But it always looked a bit rough. Still, it’s a piece of the history of the site.
Anyway, I couldn’t figure out how Joomla codes that cool grey groove in the footer. I used the “hr”, but no go.
Speaking of blue background, color palette and font palette are a key design issue.
Of course, these can easily be changed. When you’re in expression engine templates sector, you do a search for, say the color turquoise (#069) because you want to replace it. The templates that contain #069 all show up and you can go through and see where you want to change the color. Very useful for fickle design.