My footer has disappeared but only on my home page

So what ended up happenign was I was working with an older hand made theme and the main wordpress hadn’t been updated in a while. After updating the

<php the_excerpt_reloaded(35, '<p><b><i><u><em><strong><blockquote><a><ol><ul><li>', 'content', TRUE, 0); ?>

they had in the index.php file was obsolutelt as Pieter Goosen stated. I then had to find out how I was supposed to update this snippet with a new code. In comes

<?php the_excerpt() ?>

So what I’ve learned from this first experience of really looking for the issues is ALWAYS set your debug to true and go to the file and line it states, then play with some different alternatives and of course it’s always nice to have help! Thanks guys! Google. Google helps too.