2RE03-Design/memory-bank/progress.md
2RE 177943588d Add TODO.md as the project backlog
TODO.md is the single human-facing list of open work (now/assets/content/polish). The memory bank keeps only current priorities and points at it, so the two cannot drift. Also corrected stale counts in progress.md (10 case studies, 46 images, 6 client sites) and replaced the stale portrait known-issue with the Urban Moto low-res hero.
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Progress - 2RE03 Portfolio Site

What works, what's left, current status, known issues, and decision evolution. Last updated: 2026-09-10.

What Works

  • Memory bank initialized in the standard multi-file form.
  • Source material surveyed and inventoried (see reference-materials.md).
  • Six linked pages built: index, case-studies, work, about, services, contact - plus 10 case study detail pages in case-studies/.
  • Bootstrap 5.3.3 + Inter/Space Grotesk vendored locally (css/, js/, fonts/).
  • 46 images in img/ (project art, client-site screenshots, 10 case-study hero backgrounds, 8 homepage collage tiles).
  • Web3Forms contact form with required-field + email validation, accessible labels, and AJAX submit with a live status region.
  • Collins-style Case Studies feature: a typographic index with cursor-following hover previews (with a touch/no-JS thumbnail fallback) and per-project detail pages.
  • 6 real client websites added as case studies - Teach Each Other AI, Jensen's Red Barn, Mask Aid Project, 1 Woman's Art and Magic, Sam's Rules, and Victoria Fuller - each with a screenshot and a link to the live site. (Cool Crap From China lives in the portfolio gallery instead.)
  • work.html now has six galleries, including a new App Design category (Mehavior + the "(10+2) x 5" productivity timer app).
  • Verified locally: all pages/assets HTTP 200, HTML tags balance, js/main.js passes node --check, no links into refrence/.

Current Status

Stage: v0 scaffold complete and verified. Awaiting user review of copy/design and the deployment decision.

What's Left To Build

The full, current backlog lives in TODO.md at the repo root; this section keeps only the headline items.

  • User review/refinement of copy + visual design.
  • Deployment target/host/domain.
  • Optional real assets: favicon, Open Graph/social image, logo.
  • More/real portfolio items and per-image captions.

Known Issues / Risks

  • Copy is drafted in company voice but not yet approved by the user.
  • Case study hero backgrounds are generated JPEGs; Urban Moto's is low resolution (450px native at its widest).
  • Web3Forms posts to an external endpoint with a public access key in contact.html; live submissions depend on that key/account remaining active.
  • Galleries reuse the reference image set; captions are category-level only.
  • Some case studies use names drawn from the source image filenames with generic copy; others (the client sites, plus Urban Moto, Cart, and 1 Woman's Art and Magic) are based on the user's factual notes.

Evolution of Decisions

  • 2026-09-10 - Initialized a single-file memory bank draft.
  • 2026-09-10 - Replaced by the standard multi-file memory bank (this folder); content ported over.
  • Tone anchored on refrence/index.html; no individual attributions; refrence/ marked temporary.
  • 2026-09-10 - Locked the stack (static HTML + vendored Bootstrap), styling (Bootstrap + custom CSS), and brand (2RE03 only, no 2RE Factory), then built the v0 scaffold.

Progress Log

  • 2026-09-10 - Initialized memory bank. Surveyed refrence/ (2 HTML files + 23 images), captured project brief, tone, content model, and open questions. No production files created.
  • 2026-09-10 - Built and verified the v0 static scaffold: five pages, vendored Bootstrap 5.3.3 + Inter/Space Grotesk fonts, css/style.css, js/main.js, and the Web3Forms contact form. All pages/assets return HTTP 200 locally.
  • 2026-09-10 - Rethemed the site to a green palette centered on #2ee666 (crimson/red tokens removed from production CSS/HTML).
  • 2026-09-10 - Deleted the superseded draft .clinerules/memory-bank-oops.md.
  • 2026-09-10 - Added the Case Studies feature (typographic index + 8 detail pages + hover previews), wired into the nav/footer and the homepage.
  • 2026-09-10 - Added 6 real client websites as case studies (5 new detail pages + linked the existing Sam's Rules study to its live site); captured screenshots into img/. Case-study list is now 13 entries.
  • 2026-09-10 - Corrections: renamed the "Kincaid" case study to Urban Moto (print design / art direction for a motorcycle magazine; 4 images: printtiresad, printkincaidad, printmacchiariniad, writtenearplugs) and removed the old page; recast 1 Woman's Art and Magic as a two-book art series for painter Joanna Signer plus the website to sell it.
  • 2026-09-10 - Trimmed the case-study list from 13 to 11: removed Cool Crap From China and Data Vis Art, replaced Coop with Cart (a 3D design proposal), and kept the work in the portfolio (Cool Crap added to the Web gallery; Data Vis Art moved to the Logos gallery).
  • 2026-09-10 - Corrected Mehavior: it was an app, not a website - logo, app interface/button design, and promotional material for an investor pitch. Category updated to "App Design & Identity".
  • 2026-09-10 - work.html: added an App Design category, moved Mehavior into it, and added the "(10+2) x 5" productivity timer app (screenshot from timer.2re.me). Section backgrounds re-alternated.
  • 2026-09-10 - work.html: moved Web Design to the top. Order is now Web Design, Logos, App Design, Print Design, 3D Modeling, Written Work (with the section-background alternation preserved).
  • 2026-09-10 - Renamed the "Written Work" category title to "Editorial" everywhere it appears (work page heading, the homepage/services cards, and the Sam's Rules category label "Editorial & Web").
  • 2026-09-10 - Rebuilt the Selected work (homepage) and all six Work galleries as Collins-style carousels: a native CSS scroll-snap track with rounded, object-fit: cover (cropped) cards, plus js/carousel.js for prev/next buttons, keyboard arrows, and mouse drag-to-scroll (touch swipes work natively).
  • 2026-09-10 - Expanded the Mask Aid Project case study: what we did is now video production, a crowdfunding campaign, copywriting (all the text), and translation from Chinese.
  • 2026-09-10 - work.html Web Design gallery: added snapshots of Jensen's Red Barn and Mask Aid Project. Also re-shot the "(10+2) x 5" timer image as a close-up (composed to fill a 4:3 frame).
  • 2026-09-10 - Homepage copy rewrite: dropped the avocado-hipster tagline for a professional, team-voiced hero; renamed the "What we do" headline to "Web Design Is Only the Beginning". Tone guidance updated in productContext.md.
  • 2026-09-10 - Renamed the "Editorial" category to "Words" (it also covers sales copy and technical writing). Updated work.html heading/caption, the homepage + services cards (now mention sales copy), and the Sam's Rules label ("Words & Web"). Supersedes the earlier "Written Work → Editorial" rename.
  • 2026-09-10 - Homepage: moved Selected work above What we do (and swapped their section backgrounds so the white/soft alternation still holds).
  • 2026-09-10 - Pruned + reordered case studies (now 10): removed Argent; renamed Victoria → Victoria Fuller and Cart → Upscale Food Cart (pages renamed to victoria-fuller.html / upscale-food-cart.html). New order: Mask Aid Project, 1 Woman's Art and Magic, Sam's Rules, Mehavior, Jensen's Red Barn, Upscale Food Cart, Silver Lining, Victoria Fuller, Urban Moto, Teach Each Other AI.
  • 2026-09-10 - Enriched five case studies from the user's notes: Sam's Rules (+ illustrations, downloadable companion content); Jensen's Red Barn (Grandma Dorothy's scrapbook brought online as a slideshow); Silver Lining (the mark helped bring clients to a high-end retreat); Victoria Fuller (a Playboy Bunny - the only one with rights to the Playboy logo); Urban Moto (guest articles; managed photography/editorial/ad submissions; designed custom ads for clients).
  • 2026-09-10 - Jensen's Red Barn: added "Social media setup", removed the "Contact section" bullet. Sam's Rules category changed from "Words & Web" to "Book Design & Web" (both lists + detail page).
  • 2026-09-10 - work.html: moved web50shadesof2048.png from Web Design into App Design (Web Design now 5 items, App Design 3).
  • 2026-09-10 - work.html App Design: replaced site-timer-app.jpg with 2plus5times3.jpg, cropped from 398×820 to a centred 4:3 (398×298) so it fills the card. (site-timer-app.jpg is now unused.)
  • 2026-09-10 - Added the web backend services to the offering: web hosting setup/management, site management & maintenance, and domain/URL sourcing. Covered in services.html (new paragraph + 3 "What's included" bullets) and the homepage Web Design card.
  • 2026-09-10 - Removed all em dashes from the site copy (they read as AI-generated): rewrote ~95 instances across the HTML plus CSS/JS comments and the contact-form success message, using commas, colons, and parentheses. Page titles now use " | ". Cleaned the memory bank too. (Vendored bootstrap.min.css left untouched.)
  • 2026-09-10 - Contact form: made Subject optional (dropped required and its asterisk; the label now reads "Subject (optional)"). Required fields are now Name, Email, and Message.
  • 2026-09-10 - Hero rework (dropped the portrait): the global .hero now uses the green gradient plus a faint dot grid (no photo), and the homepage adds a low-contrast work collage (.hero--collage) of eight thumbnails (img/collage-1..8.jpg, generated at 480x360, ~178KB total). blue_eyes_Torrey.png is now unreferenced in production (still used by refrence/index.html).
  • 2026-09-10 - Each case study hero now uses that project's own image as its background: .hero--image (green overlay, heavier on the left for legibility) with the image set per page via an inline --hero-image custom property. Hero backgrounds generated as optimised JPEGs (img/hero-<slug>.jpg, max 1600px); the transparent logos (Sam's Rules, Silver Lining, Victoria Fuller) were composited onto brand green.
  • 2026-09-10 - Case study hero tweaks: .hero--image gained a --hero-position variable. Mehavior shows the top of its image (the logo) via center top; Victoria Fuller sits at center 10% to show the cursive name near the top; Jensen's Red Barn switched to the wide red-barn-photo.jpg panorama; Urban Moto now uses the middle band of printtiresad.png.
  • 2026-09-10 - Case study images no longer letterbox: .card-work now lets the image define its own frame (width: 100%; height: auto, no fixed 4:3 box and no light-green panel), so there is no space above or below. Added .card-work--frame (4:3 + object-fit: cover) for Urban Moto's mixed-shape grid. Feature-image width/height attributes corrected to real dimensions to avoid layout shift.
  • 2026-09-10 - Repo cleanup before the first commit: removed the temporary refrence/ source folder (19.4 MB) and four superseded images no longer referenced by any page (blue_eyes_Torrey.png; red-barn-photo.jpg, which was the source for hero-jensens-red-barn.jpg; plus site-sams-rules.jpg and site-timer-app.jpg). All five were moved to /home/torrey/2RE03-unused-assets-backup/ rather than hard-deleted. Added a minimal .gitignore (OS/editor cruft only); css/, js/ and fonts/ had no orphans.
  • 2026-09-10 - Version control: git init on branch main, then the first commit (79 files, no refrence/). Remote origin is ssh://git@git.2re.top:22222/2re/2RE03-Design.git (Forgejo, SSH key id_ed25519).