Zelda Dungeon:History: Difference between revisions

Zelda Dungeon released Layout version 4.0 on May 3rd, 2003. The site layout was pulled from a website that distributed Free website designs. It kept a simplistic look to the site, with a standard two-column setup. The website brought on board a volunteer by the username Cartoons, who would quickly become a Webmaster of the website and one of the most active team members in the sites early years. The consistent work of Mases and Cartoons caused the site to blossom, reaching 500 unique visitors per day, with it peaking at 1,000 visitors in a single day, just days before the sites second birthday. Zelda Dungeon began to partner with affiliate websites, linking to other websites forums, which was the first instance of pointing its users towards a forum community.

Layout 5.0 was released on November 25th, 2003. Site viewership continued to grow, however server trouble began to plague the website again. The site was regularly going offline at the end of each month due to bandwidth limitations, causing growth of the website to stunt.

Released on March 30th, 2004, this was the first layout that featured a quick game navigation at the top of the website, with links to all of the Zelda games, a common feature at more prominent Zelda websites during this era. Hosting troubles continued to stunt growth until Zelda Dungeon finally changed to a new hosting company, unfortunately leaving behind the zeldadungeon.com domain name in the process. The first era of the Zelda Dungeon Forums were made available during this period, accumulating over 300 registered members and 7,000 total posts.