Evan Herman on "Footer Issues"

Hey dave_steepmedia,

The smiley face at the bottom of the page is placed there by the 'Akismet' plugin. This is just a visual representation to let you know Akismet is actively defending against spam. You can hide it using a CSS decleration. Something like this should hide it:

#wpstats {
  display:none;
}

That will also remove the transparent area below the footer, which is created by the smiley face image.