How do I add a blog footer in Advanced Templates?

Well, I looked for over an hour in your search topics and found lots of information on footers, but none for what I need. I want to add a "blog" footer to the container in Advanced Templates. I would like to create a footer that has text links, widgets, or even advertising, and I would like the footer to be a different color than the container of the blog. Can you tell me how to go about creating this? I have Photoshop CS4 to create the footer as I do the mastheads right now, and don't know if that is any help, especially if I want to add text links, widgets, or advertising. Still, it would be nice if I could create a custom footer with links and all in Advanced Templates. I know there has to be a way. Hope you can tackle this one soon. Thanks!

Susan
Over at "RaisinToast"