Community:Portal to Hyrule

Portal to Hyrule is a Zelda fan website created by DekuLink In October of '06 originally as a freewebs site called "Fans of Zelda" (The acronym for FoZ morphed to "Fozee", which is used to describe a fan of Zelda). DekuLink changed the name and bought a domain name for PTH and started working on it on Dec. 8th '06. Then finally released on June 27th, 2008. The site strives for the community, as DekuLink did not want it to be "just another information site."

History
Portal to Hyrule started out in October 2006 as a freewebs website under the name of "Fans of Zelda". In November of the same year, DekuLink decided to change hosts to become "More of a site". This is when he came up with "Portal to Hyrule" because he felt that "Fans of Zelda" was a stupid name. Later in the same month, Deku met Dustin Frampton, a freelance webdesigner who worked for his church as the IT director. He began taking HTML, CSS, and Photoshop classes from Dustin. DekuLink decided to skip straight to a domain name as he started working on the site with Dustin & SkullKid. In the first week of December, Dustin bought the domain name: portaltohyrule.com for Deku as an early Christmas present for him to test the site out.

Whilst working on the site, procrastination got the best of him, and DekuLink ended up working on the site for almost two years. Eventually, Portal to Hyrule opened doors on June 28th 2008, 6 days after Deku's birthday. In December of 2008, DekuLink saw that the site needed changing, and he came up with several ideas for new features on the site, including the PTHI site. He began development on a new layout and on the PTHI site, but he lacked knowledge of PHP. DekuLink wants to buy a PHP login script to jump-start the developement proccess, but he lacks the money. He has though, with this time, completed a new layout for PTH, the forums, SKC, and added new content on the site.

Skull Kid Crafts(SKC)
Skull Kid crafts is an interactive feature of the site where you can learn how to make costumes and crafts, usually Zelda or comic book related. SKC was originally going to be a flash site during the early development stages, but DekuLink found that it would be easier to use HTML. SKC has gone through several different layouts, none of which "seemed fit" to DekuLink. DekuLink thinks that the current layout is "okay, but I want to do it again, one last time. To match the new PTH layout." There are currently only three crafts up(Although DL and SK have a list of more than 50 craft ideas). This is because SkullKid is a Sophomore in College, and is very busy. She feels that many crafts will be up in the summer.

New PTH
A brand new PTH is in the works by DekuLink and will be released around 3rd quarter this year. A new layout for the forums was recently released to reflect the new layout made for the NPTH. DekuLink has also plans to release the layout portion of the NPTH on April 5th or 6th.

Fozee
The acronym "Fozee" is a term that spawned off of the original "Fans of Zelda" name to describe a "fan of Zelda". The term was coined by Skull Kid. It is pronounced "fOh-zEE".