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-size px values to rem
• Fixed some broken links across the site
• Converted all modals to the new <dialog> element
• Changed the primary branch from master to main

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 a 60 (94 on desktop) on the homepage. Embarrassing.~ Edit: That was actually some adblocking scripts getting picked up. All good with 100 now!