What's changed

Change log.

A dated record of updates to the preview site — what changed, where to find it, and why. Newest entries appear first.

Each entry covers the full set of changes deployed at one time. The change-log bulletin on the preview site overview highlights the most recent entry; this page carries the full history. Use the links inside each entry to jump straight to the page that changed.
2026-05-11 · Session 02 update

Between meetings — what we built.

Between our 2026-05-01 mockup-feedback meeting and the 2026-05-13 follow-up, the preview site received a substantial expansion. Below: what changed, organized by category, with links to each affected page.

Live-site fixes

Three things you noticed at the meeting, fixed.

  • 01

    Glossary color rendering

    The Mock 2 glossary page (/GraphicArtMock2/glossary-custom-work) was reading as monochrome despite the paper / jewel-green palette being correctly defined. The cause was sparse at-rest accent-color density — the green appeared only on small h2 emphasis and the "+" expander glyphs. Fix: added a jewel-green left-edge border on each glossary entry's accordion summary plus a kicker tag above each cluster head. The page now reads in color at-rest.

  • 02

    Jacket hero photo restored on Mock 2

    The Mock 2 home page (/GraphicArtMock2) was showing an SVG illustration of a jacket-with-tiger where Mock 1 had used the actual elvis-jacket photo — the one you approved at the 2026-05-01 meeting. The illustration was a graphic-novel-grammar interpretation that drifted from your approval. Fix: restored the literal Mock 1 pattern with the photo as a CSS background-image. The SVG illustration is preserved in backups for reference.

  • 03

    Mock 2 internal nav — Glossary + Questionnaire links across all pages

    Before this update, the in-tour Glossary and the Questionnaire were only linked from a few of the 13 Mock 2 sub-tree pages. Added both to the top nav of every page. (Also added a Reference dropdown to all 13 pages — see the next section.)

Questions & To Do — now a dropdown

Four partner-permission letter templates added as sub-items.

The "Questions & To Do" nav-item on the preview site overview has been converted from a single link to a dropdown. Sub-items:

These are the four partner-permission letter templates we discussed for the badge-permission outreach — you can read them as drafts before deciding which to send.

Reference materials — three new pages

Curated content for use during consultations and proposals.

Three new comprehensive reference pages have been added under /reference/, with a "Reference" dropdown nav-item appearing on the preview site overview and on all 13 Mock 2 sub-tree pages:

  • Glossary — comprehensive 110-entry custom-work vocabulary, organised by semantic cluster. A more substantial sibling to the in-tour Mock 2 glossary; appropriate for sharing during consultations or excerpting into proposals.
  • Market Intelligence — multi-metro × segment analysis with per-region market-feature matrices. The substrate for the funnel-strategy decisions in Brief 2.
  • Research-pass Narrative — the per-pass research narrative (Intent / What we found / How applied / How applicable) for the substrate work behind your project.

These materials live in Mock 2 register so they feel like part of the curated content space.

Brief 2 — read-back of the 2026-05-01 meeting

A counterpart to Brief 1, covering what we landed on.

Brief 2 has been added as a counterpart to Brief 1, reading back what we landed on during the 2026-05-01 mockup-feedback meeting. Sections cover:

  • Design-direction marriage (graphic-novel + Simplicity pattern-book + Austin-vintage)
  • The font conversation (humanistic sans-serif body + serif-header contrast)
  • The portfolio strategy (5–7 starter cadence + pattern-book-card layout + art-day cadence)
  • The team page direction (no titles; bios in skills + interests, not resume)
  • Services and process — reshape (process-over-categories framing + AI-anxiety acknowledgment)
  • The funnel strategy (two-tier high-end + alterations; 5-metro geographic targets; cosplay segment)
  • Partner badges & legal (work-staged-at framing + permission-letter approach)
  • What we've built since 05-01 (this expansion)
  • What's still on the list (features for later)
  • What I'd love you to correct

The "03 Brief" nav-item on the preview site overview is now "03 Briefs" with sub-items 03a Brief 1 + 03b Brief 2.

Brief 2 — design-iteration ledger (first instance)

A visible record of how the project has evolved.

Brief 2 contains an in-page "design-iteration ledger" section showing the visible progression from the 2026-04-17 consultation through the 2026-05-13 meeting:

  • 2026-04-17 — initial consultation
  • 2026-04-23 — Brief 1 written + Mock 1 design register
  • 2026-04-24 — Session 01 meeting
  • 2026-04-26 — Mock 1 deploy
  • 2026-05-01 — mockup-feedback meeting
  • 2026-05-08 — Mock 2 build
  • 2026-05-11 — Phase I packet (Glossary + Market Intelligence + Research-pass Narrative) + Brief 2
  • 2026-05-13 — Session 02 meeting

This is a first-instance of a design-iteration-ledger pattern: a single visible record of how the project has evolved across sessions, anchored where you can find it.