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160 lines
7.5 KiB
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# Continuity Log
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Development log for tracking changes, decisions, and next steps.
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## Entry Template
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```markdown
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## YYYY-MM-DD - Brief Description
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### Changes
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- What changed
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- Why it changed
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### Decisions
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- Key decisions made
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- Trade-offs considered
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### Next Steps
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- [ ] Follow-up items
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```
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## 2025-12-27 - Hero, Services, and Footer Design Revamp
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### Changes
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- **Hero Section Redesign**:
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- Replaced mountain background with a dark green (`#3A4D39`) color and a custom tileable pattern texture (`tileablepattern.png`).
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- Added a new hero visual on the right featuring a paintbrush and color swatches image (`brushandswatchestransparent.png`).
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- Implemented floating decorative service cards ("Deck Restoration" and "Ext. Paint") overlaid on the hero image with hover animations.
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- Updated typography to match the "Craftsmanship For Your Home" editorial style.
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- **Services Section Redesign**:
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- Renamed and restructured the section to "Our Expertise".
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- Replaced the vertical list with a horizontal grid of three cards: "Interior & Exterior Painting", "Wood Restoration", and "Skilled Handyman".
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- Each card features a distinct background color (Sage or Forest green), unique service images, and "Learn More" call-to-action buttons.
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- **Footer Redesign**:
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- Restructured the footer into two main sections.
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- Added a branding top section with a large logo, company mission statement, and a dark green background.
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- Updated the bottom section with a black background, maintaining the "Ready to Transform Your Home?" CTA and navigation links.
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- **Lucide Icon Fixes**:
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- Updated all Lucide icon components in `src/pages/index.astro` to use `className` instead of `class` to resolve React linter errors.
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### Decisions
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- **Visual Consistency**: Chose to layer the tileable pattern at low opacity (20%) to add texture without distracting from the main hero content.
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- **Card Styling**: Used varying shades of green (`#3A4D39` and `#739072`) for the services cards to create visual interest while staying within the brand's palette.
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- **Layout Adjustments**: Shifted the hero content to a split-screen layout to accommodate the large paintbrush image while maintaining readability on all devices.
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### Next Steps
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- [ ] Verify responsive behavior across various mobile screen sizes.
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- [ ] Replace placeholder "Map" component with a real interactive map or high-quality image.
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- [ ] Connect the "Learn More" buttons and "Get a Quote" CTAs to their respective destinations.
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---
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## 2025-12-27 - Logo Integration & Favicon Generation
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### Changes
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- **Generated Complete Favicon Set**: Used ffmpeg to convert logo-black.png into all standard favicon sizes
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- 16x16 favicon.ico (classic browser favicon)
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- 32x32 favicon-32.png (standard size)
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- 192x192 favicon-192.png (Android/PWA)
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- 180x180 apple-touch-icon.png (iOS)
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- 512x512 favicon-512.png (high-res/PWA)
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- **WebP Optimization**: Converted all three logo variants to WebP format for modern browsers with transparency support
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- logo-col.png (2.7MB) → logo-col.webp (513KB) - 81% reduction
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- logo-black.png (781KB) → logo-black.webp (423KB) - 46% reduction
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- logo-white.png (1.5MB) → logo-white.webp (578KB) - 61% reduction
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- Initial attempt with AVIF failed due to libaom-av1 codec not supporting alpha channel transparency
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- **Navigation Logo**: Replaced placeholder "S" badge with colored logo (logo-col.webp/png) in src/pages/index.astro:40-55
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- Used `<picture>` element with WebP + PNG fallback
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- Set to 48x48px size for optimal navigation display
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- **Footer Logo**: Replaced placeholder "S" badge with white logo (logo-white.webp/png) in src/pages/index.astro:681-696
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- Provides clean contrast against dark footer background
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- Maintains brand consistency across page sections
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- **HTML Head Updates**: Added complete favicon references in src/layouts/Layout.astro:19-24
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- SVG favicon (primary, with dark mode support)
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- ICO fallback for legacy browsers
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- Multiple PNG sizes for different contexts
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- Apple touch icon for iOS home screen
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### Decisions
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- **Logo Placement Strategy**:
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- Navigation: Colored logo for maximum brand presence on light background
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- Footer: White logo for contrast on dark background (#1c1917)
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- Favicons: Black logo as base for simple, recognizable appearance
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- **Image Format Strategy**: Used `<picture>` element with WebP as primary format and PNG fallback for maximum compatibility and performance
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- Chose WebP over AVIF due to better transparency (alpha channel) support with current ffmpeg/libaom-av1 build
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- **Favicon Approach**: Generated multiple sizes to support all platforms (web browsers, Android, iOS, PWA) from single source
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- **Compression**: Leveraged WebP format for 46-81% file size reduction while maintaining quality and transparency
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### Technical Details
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- Used ffmpeg with lanczos scaling filter for high-quality favicon resizing
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- Used libwebp encoder for WebP compression with alpha channel (bgra format) to preserve transparency
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- All images maintain RGBA/BGRA color space for transparency support
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- Progressive encoding for optimal loading experience
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- AVIF attempted first but libaom-av1 codec incompatible with yuva420p pixel format, falling back to yuv420p which strips alpha channel
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### Next Steps
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- [ ] Test favicon display across different browsers and devices
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- [ ] Consider creating a PWA manifest file to complement the favicon set
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- [ ] Monitor AVIF adoption and adjust fallback strategy if needed
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- [ ] Potentially create additional logo sizes for different marketing contexts
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## 2025-12-27 - Hybrid "Eden" Design Implementation
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### Changes
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- **Aesthetic Overhaul**: Transformed the template into "Eden Style" (Editorial + Organic).
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- Adopted `Playfair Display` (Serif) for headings.
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- Updated color palette to Earth Tones: Deep Forest (`#3A4D39`), Sage (`#739072`), Cream (`#ECE3CE`), and Stone Black (`#1c1917`).
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- **Structure Refinement (Hybrid)**:
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- Rebuilt "More Than Just Painting" section with a split "List + Floating Cards" layout.
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- **Restored** the unified "Rounded Dark Footer" to anchor the page.
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- **Cleaned** Hero background shapes (Geometric vs. Blurry) for a crisp look.
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- Updated `design.json` with new identity and tokens.
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### Decisions
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- **Hybrid Approach**: We combined the trustworthy/sturdy feel of the original template (Rounded Footer, Clean Shapes) with the premium/editorial feel of the new reference (Serif fonts, Floating UI cards).
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- **Typography**: Paired `Playfair Display` with `Plus Jakarta Sans` to balance elegance with modern readability.
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### Next Steps
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- [ ] Visual QA of all service pages (if expanding beyond single page).
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- [ ] Connect Contact Form to backend/service.
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- [ ] Replace placeholder "Map" with actual embed or image.
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---
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## 2024-12-27 - Minimal Template Setup
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### Changes
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- Created minimal Astro development template
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- Single example blog post showing MDX structure
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- Minimal section examples (hero, experience, skills, featured-project)
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- Simple contact page example
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- Utility scripts: AVIF conversion, AI commit messages
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- Design system documentation in `dev/design.json`
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### Stack
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- Astro 5 + React 19 + Tailwind CSS 4
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- TypeScript
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- MDX content collections
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- Cloudflare Pages deployment
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- pnpm package manager
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### Structure
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- Content-driven architecture with type-safe schemas
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- Example content showing data structures
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- Utility scripts for common tasks
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- Clean development environment
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### Next Steps
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- [ ] Replace example content with your own
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- [ ] Customize design system as needed
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- [ ] Configure deployment
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---
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