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Shiek by Super-Fergus | Fanart spotlight Super-Fergus is popuar for his realistic pieces of artwork for not only Zelda, but other games and even movies. This great peice of digital art, shows a more realistic aproach toward Sheik's costume. Fergus has other great work, so check him out! |
- Site History
Portal to Hyrule started out in October 2006 as a freewebs website under the name of "Fans of Zelda". In November of the same year, DekuLink decided to change hosts to become "More of a site". This is when he came up with "Portal to Hyrule" because he felt that "Fans of Zelda" was a stupid name. Later in the same month, Deku met Dustin Frampton, a freelance webdesigner who worked for his church as the IT director. He began taking HTML, CSS, and Photoshop classes from Dustin. DekuLink decided to skip straight to a domain name as he started working on the site with Dustin & SkullKid. In the first week of December, Dustin bought the domain name: portaltohyrule.com for Deku as an early Christmas present for him to test the site out.
Whilst working on the site, procrastination got the best of him, and DekuLink ended up working on the site for almost two years. Eventually, Portal to Hyrule opened doors on June 28th 2008, 6 days after Deku's birthday. In December of 2008, DekuLink saw that the site needed changing, and he came up with several ideas for new features on the site, including the PTHI site. He began development on a new layout and on the PTHI site, but he lacked knowledge of PHP. DekuLink wants to buy a PHP login script to jump-start the developement proccess, but he lacks the money. He has though, with this time, completed a new layout for PTH, the forums, SKC, and added new content on the site.
Skull Kid Crafts
DekuLink did not want PTH to just be another boring information site like most Zelda sites. He wanted a unique feature that nobody else had. So he and SkullKid came up with "Skull Kid Crafts". SKC was originally going to be a flash site during the early development stages, but DekuLink found that it would be easier to use HTML. SKC has gone through several different layouts, none of which "seemed fit" to DekuLink. DekuLink thinks that the current layout is "okay, but I want to do it again, one last time. To match the new PTH layout."
Fozee
The acronym "Fozee" is a term that spawned off of the original "Fans of Zelda" name to describe a "fan of Zelda". The term was coined by Skull Kid. It is pronounced "fOh-zEE".
