Zelda Eternity - Site History

Zelda Eternity - Site History

Site History

Pre-History

Zelda Eternity is a merged site between Zelda Haven and Stone Tower Temple. ZH belonged to Link while STT belonged to Hammer Bro. Mike. Before the merge, Mike received an e-mail from Link asking for a merge. With the amount of content that ZH had plus the designer that STT had as well as a little content, they formed this site. About a week later, Mike and Link soon started losing interest and things kind of plummeted badly. Mike wanted to start a site called "Smash Shrine", dedicated to Super Smash Bros. Brawl. He had a decent amount of information up but didn't feel like running it any more because he wanted to get back to the Zelda site.

Version 1

November 15, 2008 - February 16, 2009

While discussing about the matter over Windows Live, they decided to get back to work on the site. It was a great idea but they wanted to come up with a decent name for the site. ZE was still called "Stone Tower Temple" during the merge by the way. Link suggested going with "Zelda Eternal" but Mike reminded him about a Zelda site that used that name before. Mike suggested they could use the name "Zelda Eternity" and they went with that name. There was one more problem in the way, Link doesn't use FTP because he doesn't like it and he likes using a control panel. At the time, ZE was hosted by Zelda Oracles. ZO had everything they needed but wouldn't give them a control panel for Link to use. So sometime during November 2008, they moved over to x10hosting.com. They agreed that it was a perfect host with a full control panel and no ads or anything to put up onto the site. The site later moved over to nxserve.net for a better hosting offer. Zelda Eternity opened on November 15, 2008, with the first layout being called Childhood Memories and it consisted of mainly orange, brown, and a little bit of black. For the first layout of the site, it was a good start.

Version 2

February 16, 2009 - July 11, 2009

On February 16, 2009, the second version of the site was released called Full Moon Midnight. This is the first layout Mike had done using a background for the whole layout. It took a few hours to get everything to work out good but it was worth it in the long run. On June 2, 2009, Version 2 was updated to Version 2.1. The only change was a Spirit Tracks icon on the top header. In April 2009, Zelda Eternity saw some more downtime with the site being down for weeks but was brought back on a new server with more space. We also managed to get all of our content back in the process as well but lost previous updates. Throughout the lifespan of this layout, Zelda Eternity got a lot more affiliates from bigger sites such as Zelda Dungeon and North Castle. The site was getting a lot more attention then expected which made Mike and Link very proud.

Version 3

July 11, 2009 - November 15, 2009

On July 11th, 2009, Version 3 of the site launched with a rather nostalgic ZE feel, sort of. This layout uses colours similar to the two previous layouts which would be orange/brown and green. With the new version introduced nicer looking pages as well. It was called Death Mountain Tranquility. With the new layout comes another merger for the site. Zelda Eternity merged with a small Zelda site known as Hyrule Field (also known as Termina Field at one point). With Cloud (who was known as Ace on HF) as the third webmaster aboard, great things should be happening for the site. On August 8th, 2009, Version 3 was updated to 3.1 with some few minor updates to help improve the content pages. Times have been slow during the late August 2009 to late September 2009 period but work was still being done behind the scenes.

Version 4

November 15, 2009 - February 23, 2010

On November 15th, 2009, Zelda Eternity celebrated its first birthday with a new layout. Version 4, Kokiri Courageousness, marks a new beginning the site. The layout provides a real Kokiri-feeling to it with its green and brown mixture. This marks the first time ZE has used fan artwork as apart of the layout. The right area of the header plus the left of the footer are from a piece called Thou Art Courageous by treijim. It felt very fitting for the completion of the layout. In early February 2010, the site hired some new staff to help liven the place up a bit after a bit of a "content hiatus" sort of thing.

Visit treijim's deviantart account for more of his work.

Version 4.1

February 23, 2010 - Present

On February 23rd, 2010, Mike redesigned the Version 4 layout to make it look a lot better the original. The redesigned layout featured a nicer Navigation and Content area both features neat textures and such. The clickable Game Tabs were brought back due to the removal of the Projects Rotator. The layout also featured a new background, something V4 did not have. The artwork by treijim is still featured due to the layout being a redesign. On March 15, 2010, our affiliate Exploding Deku Nut awarded us with the Golden Bomb Plant award for Most Stunning Site for the 6th Annual Golden Item Awards.

During this time, the Twilight Princess section saw an expansion for more content by SpaghettiWeegee while Doublet saw fit to start on the Oracle of Ages section and Cloud got around to finishing The Minish Cap section. The main game page for each game section got revamped quite a bit which gave them a more cleaner look to make them more appealing. The site experienced a bit of downtime for about a week and came back online May 22, 2010 and luckily nothing was lost.

Visit treijim's deviantart account for more of his work.
Visit Exploding Deku Nut to read up on the Award we won!