Community:Zelda Capital

Zelda Capital is an up-and-coming, award-winning, Zelda-based website. Launched on May 22, 2006 by The King of Hyrule, it started out as a small fan-website, but has now expanded into a huge library of Zelda Information. Its most well known features are the extensive MIDI Library, consisting of over 350 MIDI song files, a HUGE MP3 player with over 800 MP3s to choose from, and more Timeline information than you could ever need, describing everything from the Triforce to the Great Cataclysms.

History
Zelda Capital held its grand opening on Monday May 22nd, 2006. It was opened by The King of Hyrule. The very first layout was created by the webmaster with no web, HTML or PHP knowledge at all. It was created in an outdated version of Microsoft FrontPage, and only featured the site menu on the main page. The layout remained online for the site's whole first year. During this time, Zelda Capital got very few visitors, and had no interactive media, such as forums or a gallery.

Zelda Capital Version 2 made its debut on May 22nd, 2007, the day of the sites one year anniversary. The layout was created in Macromedia Dreamweaver, with a bit more experience with web design this time. It was the first layout to use templates, which allowed the updates to update just one page, and the whole site changed. This layout was a large step up for the site, and was a great improvement from the previous layout. It was around this time that the site started to get some hits and affiliates. Zelda Capital opened it's first forum, which got some activity going. However, the forums had to be closed due to some code errors. The forums were replaced, but many of the old members never returned.

The third layout was probably the biggest turn-around for the site. The layout was released on October 1st, 2007, and was Phantom Hourglass themed in honor of the new game. The hit count began to jump drastically and Zelda Capital's affiliates list soon filled up. A new forum was opened, and some activity was gained there, but the main site was what attracted many. As former Farore's Wind (now closed) webmaster .LoffleMonster put it: "The most inviting thing about Zelda Capital is the amount of news/site updates. The King does a great job of keeping it updated daily." This was the first site layout created with Photoshop, but we was still learning, and some poor planning on our part led to (yet again) another error that caused the pages to warp in the web browser Mozilla Firefox, as well as all browsers on the Mac. All in all though, this layout was revolutionary for Zelda Capital and really got the ball rolling for the future.

We have now reached the current phase of Zelda Capital. The layout, released on February 2, 2008 was easily the most graphically-intense layout Zelda Capital has ever had. Accompanying the new layout was a brand new forum layout as well, that resembled the site layout, with a few minor image changes. This layout was by far the hardest to complete so far, and was the first layout to feature forum integration, which was a first for Zelda Capital. It was also the first to use transparent images and just gave the whole site a new feel overall. It is still the current layout on Zelda Capital and will change only when we create something better.

Awards
On March 1st, 2008, Zelda Capital won its very first Golden Item Award from Exploding Deku Nut. It was awarded the Golden Ocarina Award for the Most Aspiring Site of 2008.