How to modify the footer credit in Suffusion

EDIT: This is for an older version of Suffusion. The latest version as of 1/4/12, you will need to edit the site-footer file. Again, it's still a good idea to create a child theme because you'll have to edit every time you update.

One of my final little fixes!

Customary forewarning: While I've learned a TREMENDOUS amount about building websites as I've constructed mine (ahem, myself...maybe I'm a little proud lol), I am far from being a highly educated, professional web programmer.

There were a couple of helpful Aquiod forum posts that pointed me in the right direction and I put two and two together from there... but it was still a teeny bit confusing, so here's exactly how it's done.

NOTE: Unless your name is Sayontan Sinha, you should leave some form of credit link on your main page unless you donate. Even then, I still think Sayontan, the Suffusion developer, deserves credit. So if you really need to completely remove his credit link, definitely donate a little and maybe even consider making a credits page for ALL your cool plugins and such. Don't worry about folks copycatting your site... anyone with basic knowledge can just view your page source and pluck out your theme and all those fancy plugins.

Now... how to modify that footer credit...

1) Go to Editor (under Themes) > Select Suffusion > Click the actions.php file.

2) Locate this little tidbit of data: (note that the data below has been modified to what appears on my website)

3) Edit the third line (td class "cred right") to whatever you want it to say... make it a clickable graphic, delete it altogether, make it say "Created by yourname using the Suffusion theme"...

4) Click the Update File button and refresh your website to see your changes. Rinse and repeat as needed.

IMPORTANT NOTE: You will need to change this every time you update your theme!! It isn't super often or anything, so no biggie. To avoid having to do this, you can create a child theme and the change will be permanent... but I've spent FOREVER building my site, learning the ins and outs of child themes will have to wait.