It was time for some cleanup around these parts, so here’s a list of what was fixed.
I spent some time this winter diving deep into this website and cleaning up what was initially a lot of add-on, messy, and less-than-optimally organized code. I also made some design updates and basically rounded off a lot of sharp edges. Here’s a roundup, for posterity:
Design changes
- Standardized link hover states
- Removed sunruise lines from homnepage
- Fixed heading sizes in article-stubs
- Changed up and fixed some dark mode colors and styles
- Standardized button and form specs across the site
- Fixed some movie rating layout issues
- New menu button location and fixed header
- Tweaked the Blog header to use a less-repeating image of the Chicago skyline
Code cleanup
- Moved seasonal styles to date-conditional class
- Restructured articles layout, and basically re-wrote the entire structure of every page
- Changed colors to use
hsl() - Converted all
font-sizepxvalues torem - Fixed some broken links across the site
- Converted all modals to the new
<dialog>element - Changed the primary branch from
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Content
- Added new work post about Figma
- Added a goodbye blog post for Tom
- Added more movie, video game, and TV ratings
- Switched from a Google Form to a custom form on the Contact page
- Updated some Work posts with larger images and up-to-date content
What’s next
This was a clean-up and bug-fix phase, and now I have a list of some enhancement, performance, accessibility, and usability fixes to come next. Not to mention that it’s about time for a design refresh soon. This is a 2018 special that’s been going strong, and I’m happy with it still, but the itch is forming.
- Core Web Vitals work
- Lazy loading ratings images
- Performance!
Currently scoring aEdit: That was actually some adblocking scripts getting picked up. All good with60(94on desktop) on the homepage. Embarrassing.100now!