Community:Ordon Village

Introduction
Ordon Village was a site with a focus on becoming a respected member in the community.

History of the site
Ordon Village was previously owned by current Hyrule.net administrator Arctic Fire, who had originally created the site. From there, the site had gone through many owners and the path of Ordon Village was unsure as to whether it would remain a Zelda site or not. With the assistance of several webmasters like Killswitch from Zelda Legacy, however, Alexander was able to turn the site around and place it on the intended path.

On July 3, 2009, Ordon Village was handed over to Vincent (also know by the handle "Swiftblade") after Alexander left due to personal issues. At this time, Axle the Beast also resigned. On this date, the site was removed as a Mastermind at Zelda Wiki.

Alexander decided to come back to Ordon Village after discussing the matter with Vincent on August 2nd. He left again on the 23rd of August, after he decided that he wanted to go out on his own and make a new site. After his permanent departure, the site's activity rapidly dropped. On the 28th of August, Vincent gave Alter the position Webmaster. Over the next few weeks, the activity levels started to climb again, but due to personal events, both webmasters became busy, and were unable to continue the work.

On November 20, 2009, it was announced that Ordon Village would be shutting its doors, and merging with another site.

However, the merger never occurred, and the site is now offline for good. Let's finally let this secret out of the box. Vincent had made a deal with his old pal Killswitch from Zelda Legacy to merge sites, shortly after Zelda Legacy was announced to return. This, however, took far too long, like everything else Killswitch does. Vincent got tired of waiting and decided to back out of the merge, and become a staff member at Zelda Dungeon. A few months later, Killswitch punked everyone and opened Zelda Legacy out of no where.

After Ordon Village up and died, Vincent decided to close the site, with a rather interesting page that could possibly cause seizures. It gained some notoriety when Nathan of Zelda Informer fame saw it. Having thought this was an awesome way to go out, he decided to add the page to his Zelda community archives. Although the Ordon Village domain name is no longer registered, the page can still be seen here. 

Final Staff of Ordon Village
At the time of Ordon Village's closure, the staff members consisted of:

Vincent: Webmaster/Owner Alter: Unknown ShellShocker: Content Writer for the Phantom Hourglass section and Forum Super Moderator Ver-go-a-go-go: General content writer DarkLink0260: General content Writer bookking99: General content writer Kitsu: Ordon Village Community Forum Super Moderator

The Community
Ordon Village's Forums were one of the more visited parts of the site. Having accumulated 620 posts in two to three months is an accomplishment that Ordon Village was proud to have ascertained. The community forums had a shoutbox and several areas to take part in non-Zelda related discussions.

Zelda Fansite Festival
Alexander, having always wanted to run a set of awards in the Zelda community did just that. As announced in May 2009, The Zelda Fansite Festival was launched. Similar to that of Exploding Deku Nut's acclaimed "Golden Item Awards", users in the Zelda community were allowed to nominate anyone or any site they pleased for several site AND webmaster awards. However, the awards would be decided by a staff vote on the part of the Ordon Village staff. The nomination period was from May 20th - June 17th. One Webmaster and one Site award were to be announced the following week, but due to conflicts, the process was dropped.