Quick Forum clean-up

  • Hi, guys.

    I just wanted to let you know I did a bit of tidying up in the forums.

    I decided to hide from the index the areas that are not being worked on at the moment. Areas like Zelda Network, Website News, etc. are still for the most part in the same locations and if you know the URL or their IDs you can access them easily. So for example, if you click in comments from our website, you can still access the Website News area. It is just not in the index for now.

    Wii U and the 3DS, have been tucked in the older consoles and handhelds folders.

    I also want to work in restructuring a bit the boards, mostly the Zelda areas in a way that hopefully be okay with you.

    If there's anything you reckon I need to look at, let me know. I don't have as much free time so I am going to be rolling these slowly.

    I think it's been more than enough inaction and I love this place too much.

    We also have a good chunk of stuff to talk about with the newest game and the movie in progress, haha. :grinning:

  • UPDATE:

    We had the Portable Zelda games in one zone and the console all as subfolders for their console. I've been meaning to unify a way to have:
    A) The games easily accessible on Zelda Talk.
    B) The games as subforums of the different Nintendo Consoles in the Gaming area

    Basically my main beef was how many boards would be at the top before the discussion if we had all the Portable Zelda + Console Zelda on top of the Zelda Talk topics. That's almost a twenty forums to scroll. On the other hand I definitely get the old' school structure of consoles with the subforum for the Zelda game along with any other cool particular games we like to talk about often so we're keeping that.

    Taking's advantage of my basic HTML knowledge inside of Zelda talk I made two categories that are nothing more than an excuse to have as their description a collection of links to each specific main Zelda game. I omitted side games like the Crossbow Training and the Warrior titles to keep the list neat and the spotlight on Zelda Talk.

    I think it makes the forum index look neater while still allows us to quickly navigate to specific games without taking nearly as much space away from the topic index.

  • :navi:Hijacking my own thread to let you know I've spent today moving a lot of the areas oof the community. It'd been in my mind for a while and today I decided to might as well do it. I mean, with my back pain is not like I can run anywhere, hahah.

    So here's the stuff I can recall I've done:

    1. Compressed a lot of zones and I merged/hide/removed empty and too similar areas. I want to simplify the index to hopefully bring a strong first impression. I also renamed a few zones again alluding to past Zelda communities like Zeldamania and TSR, hahah.

    2. Brought Zelda fan creations front and center. I ripped them from the projects area as it seems we got people just joining to share but not really being part of the community so I figured might as well have it easy to locate. A decade ago I was really trying to push for the use of the gallery but right now I am just going with the flow, so if most people just find easier to post a thread and that's what they have done, then might as well put it easy to find.

    3. Moved the portable and main Nintendo forum tree inside "Classic Nintendo". While most Zelda fans are by extension nintendo fans, having some many sections in the main index with our level of activity was not the best look. But the structure is just like we had it, just inside the Classic Nintendo noodle.


    FUTURE STUFF TO BE WORKED ON:

    • Fix broken images and smilies,
    • Create more discussion on the latest Zelda stuff happening.

    Maybe that'll be the next thing I'll work on when I have a good weekend. I want to get the forum look neat so I can share it in the other communities I enjoy.
    Let me know if there's anything else you think I should have a look at. :grinning: