Designer’s note:

"I just wanted to give the visitor the sensation of being almost by the island laboratory...
and somehow merge it with the background.
The laboratory falls under different sky lights depending on the length of the page due to the background.
The difficult part was getting this images to work well with older browsers.

The footer also had to include a mini site map, directions to the place, and contact information
all of which was deemed important from the usability survey."

George, Designer, Stonelab.osu.edu

This one is interesting – while most of the websites with interesting footers tend to increase the crazy quotient scrolling downwards, this one gets sober at the bottom.