You will to do the following:

Modify the CSS styles applied to your masterpage / sharepoint site. Modify the masterpage to apply the custom footer. Add the following code to your CSS.

/*

Sticky Footer Solution

by Steve Hatcher

http://stever.ca

http://www.cssstickyfooter.com

*/

* {margin:0;padding:0;}

[...]

The scenario

You have a bunch of CSS files stored in the Styles Library ofa site collection. Your masterpage references the CSS files in the style library using the following code:

<SharePoint:CSSRegistration name=”Style Library/myCSS.css” After=”corev4.css runat=”server”/>

Everything works fine so you decide to deploy the branding files to another site collection.

After applying the new [...]

Requirement

Change the default sharepoint favicon

Solution

Open the masterpage and look for the following line:

<SharePoint:SPShortcutIcon ID=”SPShortcutIcon1″ runat=”server” IconUrl=”/_layouts/images/favicon.ico”/>

Change the IconUrl path to the location of your new icon.

Requirement

We wanted a clean way of deploying masterpages, CSS, images and other branding files cleanly and easily to multiple site collections without the need to modify the files in each site collection whenever something changes.

Solution

We used a branding feature that copied the branding files, switched the masterpages, set the logo and favicon, [...]