I'm inclined to think that if you have the skills and the site access to create/modify a skin (you clearly do) then anything that should be on EVERY page I might prefer to code directly in the skin.

If it's on some-but-not-all pages then it's a closer call between several near duplicate skins and repeating modules on multiple pages.

I have have tried both 'display module on every page' and adding existing modules to a page and I have never been fully satisifed with the results.

However - maybe I just didn't properly appreciate how those features were supposed to be used.

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Best wishes,
- Richard
Agile Development Consultant, Practitioner, and Trainer
www.dynamisys.co.uk

I've made some changes to the CSS and DIVs.  The pertinent CSS is as follows:

#footerleftpane, #footerRightPane
{
    width: 300px;
    float: left;
}

#footerMidPane
{
    width: 340px;
    float: left;
    padding: 10px;
}

The div structure is now as follows:

<div id="footer">

<div id="footerleftpane" runat="server">

<dnn:LOGO id="dnnLogo" runat="server" />

<h3>Driving business performance.</h3>

<h3>Practical Sales and Operations Planning</h3>

<h3>for medium sized businesses.</h3>

</div>

<div id="footerRightPane" runat="server">

<dnn:COPYRIGHT id="dnnCopyright" runat="server" /><br />

<dnn:PRIVACY id="dnnPrivacy" runat="server" />

<dnn:TERMS id="dnnTerms" runat="server" />

</div>

<div id="footerMidPane" runat="server">

</div>

</div>

What further changes are needed to ensure these 3 DIVs align next to each other?

You should uses classes to address your Panes, not id's.
The reason for this is that the id's are being changed by ASP.NET on rendering.

<div id="ContentPane" class="ContentPane" runat="server" />

Will be rendered as

<div id="dnn_ContentPane" class="ContentPane" ></div>

Because in future versions (of asp.net) this could change, it's best to add a unique class to every Pane and address that:

.ContentPane
instead of
#ContentPane or #dnn_ContentPane

BTW, this is due to the way ASP.NET works, not really caused by DNN

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