Change log
What changed on this site, and when. Newest first. It is written by hand, one line per change, so a line only appears here because somebody put it here.
The site was built, in one day
These pages. The About menu and the four links at the foot of every page now lead somewhere. Seven pages: how we choose, why it works that way, how we make money, the terms, privacy, this log, and the method page again under the name the menu gives it.
The look was settled. The row of category names, and the four ways in on the home page, became underlined tabs sharing the colour of the section above them. Each heading in the catalogue panel is now centred, drawn in that section's own colour, with the line of description under it taken away.
Three more rooms were drawn, in the same hand as the first one, so a category screen leads with a picture rather than a list.
Two of the four stages of the build were deferred, not dropped. The three verdict cards filling themselves, and the design rules becoming checks that refuse a bad page, both wait until the picks are final.
Six pictures of the site on a phone were taken and kept, so a change that breaks a narrow screen is caught by comparison rather than by somebody noticing.
A search with nothing typed in it goes home instead of showing an empty results screen, which was a dead end.
Light or dark is remembered. Choose one and every page after it matches, including after a reload and on the next visit.
Every page now says what we earn, at the foot, along with the one line this whole site is built on. There was no footer at all before.
The faintest labels became readable. They sat at roughly 2.2 to 1 against the paper behind them; they now sit at 4.5 to 1, which is the line below which text cannot be read by everybody. Nothing else moved by a dot.
Anyone moving through a page with the Tab key can see where they are. There was no visible outline on the selected thing at all, which left a reader who cannot use a mouse lost.
On a phone, the catalogue slides in, the cards stack one under another, and nothing runs off the side. Below 860 pixels of screen width the product list used to disappear entirely.
Every screen got its own address. The site was one large file that swapped what was on the screen, so no page could be found by a search engine, sent to a friend, or bookmarked. It is now 579 separate pages, each with an address of its own.