I believe it is a good thing. but.....

Textlink footers were to provide links to site pages whos links were
either not on all pages, or when the normal navagation bar is image
links. That way you always had a text link. Mini-sitemap? Ok.

I find that less wordy is better here.

If I can't find a subject/group on the normal navigation, because it
is more specific to a page, rather than the whole site, I look to the
footer text links for single word links, like contact, policy, etc.
I certainly don't want to see links like "this is a link to our contact page"
to know what it is for. I believe yours are way too long.

A short named list of everything, even in small type is good for me.

My two cents....

Drake has some good ideas, consider them. Yeah, clouds are good IMHO.
Really helps visitors focus on a group. Long list nav-bars are hard to read,
and many times they miss what they are looking for. It gets lost in the list.

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