Zelda Legacy Status Update 1

First update, the Publisher's Center. The component is 100% complete. There are still alot of features I want to add, but at the moment it works perfectly, allowing the author to choose a section to publisher their writing into, a WYWIWYG editor for easy editing, the option to enable or disable commenting on their articles, and the ability to publish/unpublish/edit/delete their own writings. I want to eventually add a rating system to the Publisher's Center material, but there is probably a component already written that will accomplish that.



I have the site completely integrated with a new forum. I decided to drop Vbulletin mainly due to the price issue... don't want to and at the moment can't pay $100 for a leased liscense. Thanks for selling yourself out VB, now we have price hikes

Oh well, there is a nice forum component for Joomla already out there that I might rip apart and make personal. Anyways, the site is completely integrated with the gallery and forums. I have built a nice user module that pulls your profile avatar, forum posts, private messages, article total, and some other things. There is alot more I am going to add to it but I am still working on it.



I am also beginning and working on finishing several site related projects, the CMS being one of them (but that's 99% done). The CMS only needs the main frontpage finished and it's done. I will be bug testing it and releasing it to whomever wants it.

I am also working on a standalone version of the Publisher's Center for those who don't use a CMS or Joomla. It will act much like our old one, where users can comment, manage their writings, and so on. I have began rewriting it to remove alot of the bridged code it used from VB, but it won't take but another day or so to finish. Once done, I will upload it and link it from our Splash page. Anyone will be free to use it, but I especially wrote it for other sites in the Zelda community. I noticed a few other sites were wanting something and even trying something similar, so I figured I would release my code. I will have a standalone, no bridged Publisher Center version, a VB bridged version, and will try to get around to making an SMF and phpBB bridged version.

In addition to the Publisher's Center, I am going to release my old news script I wrote and don't use anymore. I am rewriting a bit of it too to give people more freedom away from specific code we used on ZL, and to make it a bit more dynamic than it was before. That as well shouldnt take long to finish since I already have all the source code on my computer from our old version.

I am also going to work on a seperate webmasters area of the site to contain bug tracking for each script, as well as feature requests and a general help desk. I figured it might be a good way to get back in touch with several other webbies and just to lend a hand in general.

Anyways, we might be back up a little sooner than I thought. Won't go much into details, but keep checking back with us. Again, if you need to contact me, new email is ZLegacy (@)(at) gmail d0t c0m.

Zelda Legacy Will Return !

Zelda Legacy will return shortly. We are sorry about the downtime, it's a long story. I am working on restoring Zelda Legacy on my PC at home and using this time to change a lot of our content, organize server files better, and continue where I left off a couple months back.

Long story short, I moved to North Carolina and am soon to move into my new house here. Once I do, I will get real hosting once again (and this time make sure it's setup to pay automatically off of Paypal monthly) and get Zelda Legacy back online.

I will post up a few screenshots shortly once I get things finished up. A bit of info...

We are still using Joomla CMS (our custom CMS is not gone, more info on that later). I wrote our own custom component for the Publisher's Center which is 98% complete. It's working really well so far and will definetly get some screens of it up within the next couple days.

Expect to see us back in the next few weeks or so. I get net access now through my cell phone - USB link, which is dirt slow, so uploading site files through that is out of the question. I may head out to the library since they have high speed to do some updating from now on. Anyways, if you have sent email out to me at webmaster@zeldalegacy.net, I haven't gotten it for quite some time.

You can reach me at ZLegacyATgm@ail.com.