diff --git a/template.php b/template.php
index a9eb163e3a7b683caa35f736b1eb68af2fc4f485..95da622cd541c8cc952c378d7974b1dbe4fe422c 100644
--- a/template.php
+++ b/template.php
@@ -25,6 +25,15 @@ function shiny_preprocess_maintenance_page(&$vars) {
   // shiny_preprocess_html() also happen on the maintenance page, it has to be
   // called here.
   shiny_preprocess_html($vars);
+  if (variable_get('install_task') != 'done') {
+    $footer_markup =  '<div class="message">' . t('Proudly built by') . '</div>';
+    $footer_markup .=  '<div class="logo">' . t('<a href="@url">Commerce Guys</a>', array('@url' => 'http://www.commerceguys.com')) . '</div>';
+    $vars['footer'] = array(
+      '#prefix' => '<div id="credit" class="clearfix">',
+      '#markup' => $footer_markup,
+      '#suffix' => '</div>',
+    );
+  }
 }
 
 /**
diff --git a/templates/maintenance-page.tpl.php b/templates/maintenance-page.tpl.php
index 3e20c1ad3a76f0b60ed24510dc95b6f082fce2ca..04cda7b20f25c982a9aee1f97c3db365c6c83ca1 100644
--- a/templates/maintenance-page.tpl.php
+++ b/templates/maintenance-page.tpl.php
@@ -43,12 +43,11 @@
       </div>
     </div>
   </div>
-    <div id="footer" class="footer-messages clearfix">
-    <div id="credit" class="clearfix">
-      <div class="message">Proudly built by</div>
-      <div class="logo"><a href="http://commerceguys.com">Commerce Guys</a></div>
-    </div>
-    </div>
+    <?php if (isset($footer)): ?>
+      <div id="footer" class="footer-messages clearfix">
+        <?php print render($footer); ?>
+      </div>
+    <?php endif; ?>
   <?php print $page_bottom; ?>
   </div>
   </div>