I am having difficulty in setting up footer widgets. I would like to have 3-4 evenly sized widget boxes at the bottom of my content. is there any easy way to do this?

What version of Atahualpa and WP?
What is your url?
what have you tried?

3.5.3
wordpress 3.0

the only thing i tried was what was in the "add more widgets" area. they only seem to get me as far as adding a body-wide widget one on top of the other. instead of 3-4 widgets proportioned along the size of the bottom of the site. I am new to web development so I am not sure how to manipulate the code correctly.

You have to add a four celled widget area to get four side by side widget areas. The code below should do that for you. If you read through the stuff in the Add New Widget Areas section some of the info will start to make sense. The code snippet below is just the example with a few changes.

<?php bfa_widget_area('name=Footer widget  area&cells=8&before_widget=<div  id="%1$s" class="footer-widget  %2$s">&after_widget=</div>'); ?>

thanks! it worked exactly how I wanted it!