Good tip!

The footer area is a bid help. I've been using that area for a long time for Google and to contain a masked email contact link. A few days ago I used this area to add a search box, not perfect but better than no search feature. Today's task is to try to align the search box and masked email added side-by-side by creating a table. It would be great if I had the same control over the header area. That said, I'm grateful for the footer area.