Do I need to use the footer section? Or can I just put info at the bottom of my page and then duplicate the page? I'm not the best at straight coding...

Hello from sunny Bali

I believe the way it works is that if you put something into your footer section then that will get added to all other pages you add, the same would also be true by duplicating the page, the difference is that by duplicating the page all class/id styling also gets duplicated, which is fine until it comes to changing a style on the duplicated page (if you need to) because the style would be also changed on the original page (and any others you may have duplicated) unles you remember to change the class name first.
Hope that makes sense (still a bit early in the morning here in Dark Sunny Bali.