DarkAngel:
from the image it looks like maybe you edited the link some and something go taken out of the code...I do that all the time, annoys me when I dood it too...lol
since it is not a live site...you could take out all files and redo the store to default...add the template first to make sure it is behaving---her templates are so user friendly that even me that does not do much coding can get them...
If you take it to fresh files and the bottom is still messed up then it is something in the template...maybe just a width adjustment--doubt it but ya never know
then if it is looking right add one mod to test it right away...doing things that way will surely point you to the culprit.
now as for the mods being admin side only they should not interfere with the template footer...and me personally
I would get rid of the wysiwyg editor --- I read somewhere (not sure where cause it was awhile ago -- that those are easily hacked into and twas why it was removed. I use the ckeditor-for-zencart-3.7c (course I have 1.3.9h version too but did install one into my test 1.5 store and it worked) -- tis a bit different but once you get used to it it is wonderful.
Maybe it did not show up as messed until it had a few days to catch up with itself, so to speak.
DarkAngel,
Thank you again for your quick response and advice...I really didn't want to start over, as I've done that a couple of times already, as I started building the site, after many edits and changes, I wanted to start fresh as this was going to be my final build of this site. I like as clean of a site and db as possible. So, I gave it another look, comparing my demo site using Firebug with the one that was correct to the one that wasn't.
FINALLY solved the issue !!! After comparing files and stylesheets and finding no answer, I noticed that on the "good" site, the images were ever so slightly smaller. Remember that I said that I tried to add the social networking sidebar, but couldn't get it to work so I took it out? Well, we are all told to compare this file and that file in case we need to merge, which I do. Never thought about the images...It seems the sidebar has the exact same images as the footer, named exactly the same, only larger. So when I copied over the images, they over wrote the ones in the folder and then of course my footer menu was drawing from those images. I went into my original template files, grabbed those images, then copied them to my site template to overwrite the files that had been originally overwritten.
Now all is well.
So, now a heads up to anyone trying to add multiple social mods, check the images to see if they are a different size than the ones you are already using and if you still want to use the mod, I would change the new one's name by doing something like adding a 1 to the pic name and then look for the code in your new mod and change the code accordingly to reference your new image name.
I'm sure, as these new awesome templates with the social footer from picaflor are used, others will be running into this same issue. Perhaps in the future, maybe picaflor will change the image names of duplicate images of different sizes?
The social sidebar I was trying to add was also from picaflor (originally by someone else, but latest edit from picaflor). It is on their site as well as here.
Thanks again..
Sharon