Let us take you through the dungeons...

[Caleb]

Hey guys, small update today. Don't really have much to say, but I found some typos on various pages... Mmm, yeah, we're kinda done announcing the alliance sites, so the uh, TA-DA! We're the tenth site!... Well, we had one... but it died... Anyway, we'll continue to make snazzy updates talking about stuff happening at all the other sites.

In other news, one of the moderators at our forums has joined the site's official staff, named Dabombster. He'll be handling the Wind Waker section, which is also why the Site Projects changed on the right. He'll be giving a formal introduction at a later date. Welcome aboard!

Oh yeah, and I don't know if any of you noticed, but uh, we changed layouts. Ya know, just a small thing to note...

So, in having the Zelda Dungeon Alliance, a lot of the miscellaneous sections we had on our site have become obsolete because our alliance sites handle these various things so much better. By pointing to these veteran sites for their strengths, we can better focus on our own: Zelda walkthroughs and guides. This brings us to the layout.

The game buttons on the left now open up drop down boxes when you place your mouse over them, showing all of the sub-sections within. This allows users to quickly surf all of our guides from any page, without having to go through other pages to get there. The game index pages themselves have also been reduced and refined to make them easier to navigate, just place your mouse over the section you want a description of and it pops up below.

The rest of the content, such as everything site related and all of our media are under their respected sections in the banner above. Zelda Dungeon takes you to site related pages, media to pictures, music, comics, and finally forums, which is self explanatory.

On our home page (updates), all of our non-alliance Affiliates and links are displayed, but on every other page, they are only shown at the bottom of the site. This allows us to use the expanded width of our content area to make better guides and walkthroughs. We'll be revealing some of the exciting stuff we have hidden up our sleeves in the near future.

And that's it! The site is more simple, as well as more dynamic than ever before. Welcome to Zelda Dungeon, "let us take you through the dungeons!"

Zelda Dungeon section (http://www.zeldadungeon.net/Zelda-Dungeon.php)
Media section (http://www.zeldadungeon.net/Media.php)

Game section (http://www.zeldadungeon.net/Zelda05-ocarina-of-time.php)

[Dabombster]

I have to say the new layout looks phenomenal. Great job.

[Mehplep]

This new layout is... simply awesome. The new slogan is great too! I've found some incorrect links here and there, but nothing really "bad". Great job!

[Aerostella]

*drools all over layout* It looks awesoooome. :clap:

I was just wondering when the new layout would be up last night. :xd:

http://www.zeldadungeon.net/Zelda-Dungeon.php

I love how they move when you hover over them. :D

[bobrocks95]

I'm guessing that the walkthroughs still have to be "optimized" to make use of the wider area available, since right now they are still in a small box with room to the left and right of them.

Also, with the games on the left side of the screen, specifically LOZ through OOA, wouldn't it make more sense to have the drop-out menu line up with the top of the game's box? Right now it's somewhat farther down, and it lines up with the bottom games nicely.

Anyways, very nice layout.

[Smitie]

the lay out looks awesome. i like the banners for the games and the zelda pictures as background.

[ebuch]

Great job ZD team! If only I had stayed up another 10 minutes last night... >_< Are you going to find a 10th site for the alliance?

Edit: Also, Reorchestrated is spelt wrong in the banner when you go over the ZREO link. I know you're busy doing all sorts of other things so I apologize for pointing that out

[linkman8]

The new layout looks amazing. Very organized and good looking, so well done everyone!

[Jirrup]

Quite frankly, it's incredible. A great improvement over the previous one.

[Caleb]

Thank you all for the encouraging comments. It was a lot of hard work to make this one.


This new layout is... simply awesome. The new slogan is great too! I've found some incorrect links here and there, but nothing really "bad". Great job!

If you find any broken links, please tell us where they are. A general statement like this just lets us know there's a problem somewhere.


I'm guessing that the walkthroughs still have to be "optimized to make use of the wider area available, since right now they are still in a small box with room to the left and right of them.[QUOTE]

Yes, as I've been saying in previous updates, we had some issues switching over a lot of the coding to prepare for this new layout. One of the issues is that the walkthrough pages are set up with 625 pixel width in mind and mess up if it's any wider. Once we get some of the kinks out, we'll go through and fix them all real quick.


[QUOTE=ebuch;6097]Great job ZD team! If only I had stayed up another 10 minutes last night... >_< Are you going to find a 10th site for the alliance?

We don't have a tenth site anymore. If we do change our minds, we can always put one there, but for now, our own button can fill that slot.

[Judai]

Awesome layout and a tad better than 15. I love it. Simple, clean, effective, an eye grabber. I can go months on end talking about how this layout is so much of an improvement. Even gets me to think about making version 4 of Zelda Temple as good as this.

I just noticed some GIFs in this as well:

http://www.zeldadungeon.net/Layout/16/blue_Media_on.gif

Incredibly creative.

I swear I'll get on the higher affiliates... some day XD!

Edit:

There's a problem when you try and go to the drop-down boxes on the Zelda games. If you leave the games it'll disappear too quickly. -.- I can print screen it if you want.

[Mases]

Re-orchestrated was spelled incorrectly. Ya, NEW guides will take full advantage of the wider display area. Eventually even the old ones that were optimized for a certain width will be adjusted to work nicely with the expanded width.

Mehplep had posted in the secretly private Administration forums about a few issues, notably a few types in the game index pages, and incorrect links for the 'Site Projects', but those have been fixed up. Thanks again!

The 10th Alliance site was a small site named Zelda's Secret Ocarina. Unfortunately they have gone through numerous problems with servers and forums and such, and they are no longer online. I'm currently looking to get involved with a few other sites that have unique ideas that I believe can be implemented into the Alliance.

Any other random errors that anybody sees, please post them. I'm certain there are going to be a bunch of them.

Shrukan, no worries, you aren't THAT far from being up there. It's no longer about just age or size of a site. More about inspiring sites. Just keep working at it. ;)

[zeypherlink]

Haha, wicked sweet job on the new layout, guys!

[ebuch]

Mases: Are you going to link to the Microswift IRC server? :)

[Swiftblade]

To be honest with you, I don't really like it. It's a bit, over crowded. Much better than the original red scheme though.

[Avenged]

Reminds me a lot of HtLoZ II.

[Z3R0]

I think the layout is beautiful, I absolutely love it. <3

Although I do see a couple problems:

When you hover over AoL and the table pops up, when you click on "Site Walkthrough," it takes you to http://zeldadungeon.net/Zelda022Walkthrough.php instead of http://www.zeldadungeon.net/Zelda02Walkthrough.php

Not to mention once you get to the AoL walkthrough, its on the old layout instead of the new one...

Other than that it looks fantastic. :3

[Mases]

Thanks, ya much of the AoL stuff is still on the gold layout we had about a year ago. Avenged created the AoL material and it was before we made the switchover to CSS, so all the pages are individually coded. There is no excuse why we haven't changed that but I think it is about time we do.