I have been playing with the skin styles and found a black css and black images when selected hide the footer links.

How can this be fixed.

The black skin and images are there as one of the color options for the default skin (available under Site > Skins > Edit skin). What do you want to fix?

I used css_black and images black on the selection and all the links at the footer disappear, they are there if you drag your mouse across them footer but not visable for anyone to see.

Ah, I see. The color options were whipped up pretty fast, so I expect there to be one or two CSS quirks there --- we primarily wanted to provide bases for further customization! (Though they will of course be polished in the future, and more options added.)

To change this, go to /templates/default/css_black, and crack open wrappers.css. Find .bottom_footer a:link etc. and change the links' colors etc. any whichever way you want. The actual .bottom_footer class that defines the bottom footer's background etc. is still in global.css, I still have a slight bit of reorganization to do before every CSS class is in its right slot.

There actually seems to be a last-minute defect that crept in when I normalized bottom_footer paremeters across the CSS stylesheet variants, it's the wrong color! (Happened when I updated the stylesheets for 1.11 just before release -- the background-color field escaped my eye.) You should change the background-color for bottom_footer from #eee to #666666; which is the default mid-gray color used in the rest of the area backgrounds.