[Tex/LaTex] How to keep page numbering below text

Question

I have started writing my report using LaTeX. I have hid the page numbers for the first pages, table of contents included. However, after table of contents page numbers seems to be above the lowest point that the content reaches. I am using

\documentclass[a4paper,12pt]{article}
\usepackage{fullpage}
\title{\bf Title\vspace{2cm}}
\author{\emph{Author:}\\author\vspace{0.5cm} \\ \emph{Supervisor:}\\supervisor\vspace{2cm}}
\date{\today}
\begin{document}
\maketitle
\thispagestyle{empty}
\newpage
\begin{abstract}
\end{abstract}
\thispagestyle{empty}
\newpage
\renewcommand{\abstractname}{Acknowledgements}
\begin{abstract}
\end{abstract}
\thispagestyle{empty}
\newpage
\thispagestyle{empty}
\tableofcontents
\thispagestyle{empty} \newpage
\setcounter{page}{1}

and resetting counter after ToC like this :\setcounter{page}{1}
What do i have to change in order the page numbers to appear below my text?

Answer 1

I agree with recluze regarding the selection of document class. You should not be using article class for a report.

However, if you want the page numbers to be uniformly placed at a particular height you can use geometry package (footskip=.25in) along with fancyhdr.

\documentclass[12pt,oneside]{book}
\usepackage{fancyhdr}%<-------------to control headers and footers
\usepackage[a4paper,margin=1in,showframe,footskip=.25in]{geometry}
\usepackage{lipsum}
\title{Title of the report}
\author{your name}
\begin{document}
\maketitle
\fancyhf{}
\fancyfoot[C]{\thepage} %<----to get page number below your text
\pagestyle{fancy} %<-------the page style itself
\frontmatter
\tableofcontents
\mainmatter
\chapter{First chapter}
\section{One}
\lipsum[1-3]
\section{Two}
\lipsum[1-13]
\chapter{Second chapter}
\section{One}
\lipsum[1-3]
\section{Two}
\lipsum[1-13]
\backmatter
\end{document}

You may remove showframe from geometry options in the final version.