User:Dabombster

About Me
I am a 17 year old male member of the human race that is currently living in the "great" state of Utah. I enjoy playing casual, single-player games, such as Zelda, Mario, Metroid, and Pokémon. I also enjoy playing a multitude of multiplayer games with friends, ranging from Halo to Super Smash Bros.

I am currently attending High School in the area and am in my senior year. I plan to graduate in May of 2009 and pursue a career as a Civil Engineer. I plan on attending college, but I don't know where I'd like to enroll at the moment. I guess I'll find that out later.

Zelda Legacy
In March of 2006 I noticed an up and coming site, Zelda Legacy. I spoke with Killswitch, the webmaster of the site about a possible position on the staff there. He agreed to let me help him and I started to learn HTML and a little PHP. Two months after I began working there, Killswitch decided to switch over to a Content Management System (CMS), more specifically, Joomla. We realized this was a mistake as soon as we installed the new CMS, but we couldn't really go back and fix it. It took us a week and a half to figure out how Joomla worked and transfer all of the content over to the "new" site.

In the meantime we had tried installing several forums for the site. Many of them had several problems or would get hacked shortly after installing them. Killswitch finally purchased a license for vBulletin (vB) and said "Well, we won't have to worry about installing forums again after this". So I spent a day setting up the forums, usergroups, and everything else we needed to get started. I returned the next day to find out that Killswitch had managed to crash the forums and that I had to do it all over again.

For a while the forums were a good place to be. Plenty of webmasters would visit them frequently and there would almost always be something interesting to say. However, some of the members that were in this group of people that visited frequently began to develop an idea of elitism, thinking they were better than newer members.

The forums became a horrible place to be at, and I despised being in charge of them. I made a last ditch attempt to bring order back to the forums, but failed miserably. I resigned from my position in March of 2008, 2 years after I started helping there.

Zelda Dungeon
In March of 2008, some of the members of Zelda Legacy became rather aggravating, so I left the site in search of someplace else. Mases heard about the incident and invited me to Zelda Dungeon. He then offered me a "job" in May of that year and I volunteered to work on the Wind Waker section of the site.

I quickly wrote up a walkthrough for The Wind Waker and several smaller guides along the way. But school and family problems got in the way of me furthering along the way of writing and coding the content and I had to temporarily leave the site.

In late December of 2008 I returned to Zelda Dungeon to discover that Mases had twice the amount of staff members as he did when I left the site. I was informed that I could continue working on the Wind Waker section with the assistance of Josh, a staff member hired in my absence. I then began to code out the Wind Waker walkthrough, while Josh collected screenshots for the game. Working together we are progressing quickly through the walkthrough and plan to finish before summer.