Template Tags in Footer?

[bluegrasslover]

I'm trying to add a "shop by manufacturer" to the footer that's populated from the manufacturers in the db. Currently, I'm doing this manually because we didn't have the mfgs set for all the products. Now that all of the products are set with mfg, I want to replace the manual html with template tags.

In Settings/Design/Header and Footer I added this

<!--START: FRAME_MANUFACTURER-->
<!--START: manufacturer_format-->
<A class=font1 title="[manufacturer]" href="http://www.ladybugsandlilypads.com/search_groups.asp?manf=[mfgid]">[manufacturer]</A>
<!--END: manufacturer_format-->
<!--END: FRAME_MANUFACTURER-->

what I got was
<A class=font1 title="[manufacturer]" href="http://www.ladybugsandlilypads.com/search_groups.asp?manf=[mfgid]">[manufacturer]</A>

Does the footer section just not understand the tags?

And yes, I know you can add the drop down list in frame.html to shop by mfg but we want to have a list of links in the footer.

Thanks,
Greg
http://www.ladybugsandlilypads.com

[bristweb]

i think you can only use that code on the frame.html template file