Ok I have tried this and not got far, I want to make it so that the info box, contact info, facebook and twitter sections do not appear on the matenance page as stated earlier but am unsure what code that is exactly, I am also trying to get it going as a vQmod as I am trying to stop changing core files so the code I have currently is:

<modification>
  <id>stopfooterappearingonmaitenance</id>
  <version>1.0</version>
  <vqmver>2.1.6</vqmver>
  <author>Klimskady</author>

   <file name="catalog/view/theme/shoppica/template/common/footer.tpl">
     <operation>
    <search position="after"><![CDATA[<?php if (!isset($this->document->shoppica_rightColumnEmpty)) { require dirname(__FILE__) . '/../common/install_error.tpl'; die(); } ?>]]></search>
          <add><![CDATA[<?php if (!$this->document->in_maintenance): ?>
.....
<?php endif; ?>]]></add>
  </operation>

</file>

</modification>

Could you show me what to add to get this to work?