When the website went live on 8 November, there were three projects. Two days later there are six. The projects page handled that about as well as a shelf you keep cramming one more folder into: everything was technically there, but it wasn't pretty. So tonight I tidied up, once again entirely by chatting with Claude.
The new overview
Until now every project sat as a wide card in a long list, with four tiny images on the left and a lot of empty space around them. Now the projects lie side by side in two columns as proof sheets, like loose pages on a light table. Each sheet has one large image at the top in a film strip and three small frames below it, just like a contact sheet. Underneath are the title, a short description and the current status.
The two new projects also got their own marker colours: rust for JENSEITS DES SYSTEMS and pink for “Alarm im Darm”. Pink suits a song about an extra-spicy döner kebab, if you ask me.
A header image that grows along
At the very top of the projects page there's a contact sheet with 24 images. Until now it was a fixed picture with nothing but stills from “Warum machst du das?” and NCC screenshots. The new header image assembles itself every time the website is updated, using images from all projects. The slots are shared out evenly, and two images from the same project never sit next to each other.
It holds six projects at most. When a seventh arrives, the oldest drops out. Halle 77 Drive is missing, by the way, because it has no images of its own yet, only text plates.
Legal notice and privacy policy
Since launch, the footer of every page had a placeholder. Now there's a proper legal notice and a privacy policy, both in German and English. The privacy policy turned out pleasantly short: no cookies, no tracking, no analytics, nothing loaded from third-party servers. Normal page views aren't logged. I double-checked that on the server before it went into the text.
A changelog for everything
From now on every change to the website gets a line in the changelog on the brunzel.info project page. Only bigger changes like this one also get a post of their own. We filled in the start of the changelog from the version history, all the way back to day one.
