Site History - JZ
The Legend of Zelda
The Adventure of Link
A Link to the Past
Link's Awakening
Ocarina of Time
Majora's Mask
Oracle of Ages
Oracle of Seasons
Four Swords
The Wind Waker
Four Swords Adventures
The Minish Cap
Twilight Princess
Phantom Hourglass
SITE HISTORY
"Well we may not be the oldest site around but when we first started we made a promise to make JZ a popular fun site with lots of information, to help the Zelda Community."


Before we get started Let me note one thing. With the server change we've lost most of our photos. That is why there are no pictures of some of the layouts.

All the writing done here by Addismad and Prince Zora remain untouched and that is the way it shall stay forever.

Just Zelda first started in August 2003, where I addismad, wanted to create a site, and decided to do it on the Zelda series. it didn't take long before I launched it on the 11th August 2003 and since then we have been growing.







The first design which you can see above was very simply with a side frame. But not many people liked the side frame so it was soon revamped by a much nicer and more professional layout.







We then began to add more features like downloads and online games, however we wern't quite getting the hits we wanted. Plus people were tired of the grey colour scheme, so i went to work to make another design which turned the site around in the new year. Much fresher with white and splashes of green, this proved popular and got us a new host. We also said hello to Daku Tree Scrub, our first member other than me.



However, as soon as things picked up, we then lost our server at Bratch Hostings which was unfortunate and was really the best host we had had. We were down for about a month. We finally picked things up and got a new host at 50megs which has been quite good to us. We then got another two staff members, troutboy & Covenant_killer.

Things were going ok now, but i had had enough of the design, so back to the drawing board i went and created the one we are using now, which i think has been our best yet. We now have intoduced even more features to attract the fans and hired more staff including Shiro and Prince Zora after loosing Covenant_killer.






We were then lucky enough to get hosted at Zelda Central who have allowed us to grow and get even better, so a big thanks to them. Plus as we were approaching our one year anniversay, i've decided to use another look to mark the occasion. Yes i know, it sounds stupid but this would be our 5th design in only one year! And here it is, the green has gone and instead we have gone with a cool blue. Woudn't be possible if it wasn't for FF Warpzone

In our first year we have had some amazing success and over 12,800 visitors which for a fairly new site, isn't bad at all, let hope the next year is even better!
- Addismad

It was later in 2004 when Addismad had to retire from his position as the Admin, and gave myself, Prince Zora, the position of Admin. I might not be the best at it yet, but I'm trying to make the site just as good as Addismad left it, but as I do not have as much time as Addismad did, I have to change a few things. Now I'm trying out a new layout, to hopefully make accessing the site a simpler task, both for myself as Admin and for the audience.
-PZ


On the day of June 25th 2005 our new and beloved Prince Zora had left us. Without warning he poofed and was gone for several months. With the site not having any administrator on the forums or on the site we thought all was lost. We lost many members including the daku tree scrub and zelda master. I Thewindmaker had been working with Prince Zora for a while as a content writer. We were in the middle of the proccess of teaching me how to update the site by myself. After only having recived the password and the username and PZ's disappearance I searched the web for ways to enter a web sites main frame. Finally we were back in action. Even though the site was a complete mess we got things back up and running. DekuKid along with my self and Invincible Link worked very hard to get the site back up and running. Thats were we are today, with the great photoshop skills of DekuKid we have revamped the site with a totally new Layout. Now with only 2 staff members working on the site, things have slowed down but were are still working very hard to try and bring you the best and most original Zelda experience yet!
-Thewindmaker

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