Changelog | Practical Hugo

2024-11-19AddedChanged

Marquee banner

The callout below the curriculum on the homepage wasn’t working for me, so I’ve changed it to a good old marquee.

New feature

Introduced a scrolling marquee above the footer to point out that the curriculum is still a work in progress and season 1 is coming soon.

Improvements

Sign up form now includes a descriptive heading above it on smaller devices.
“Modules” and “lessons” are now “Seasons” and “Episodes”. This, I hope, will manage expectations surrounding launch of content.

2024-11-14Changed

Align styles with cu.css

As I finally find time to get back into working on this course, I’ve spent some time reworking the CSS so it’s inline with cu.css and my current way of working.

This includes:

Updating the CSS spacing system to use Utopia.fyi
Improving the global styles based on cu.css
Introducing .cluster and .repel compositions from cu.css
Introducing exceptions from cu.css / CUBE CSS
Reducing the number of utilities required in the design.

2024-05-13Changed

Improve homepage intro and curriculum

Improved homepage introduction and updated lessons in curriculum.

2024-05-09Added

Privacy

In compliance with UK data and privacy laws (“GDPR”) and in an effort to be more transparent, I have added a privacy page to the site.

2022-12-20Changed

Callout design and wrapper

More adjustments to the callout design
Switched to padding percentage based wrapper like on harrycresswell.com

2022-08-10Changed

Fonts

Times up for Space Mono.

As much as it’s a great font, I wasn’t happy using it for long-form course content. A sans-serif on the other hand feels like a solid choice.

New feature

System defaults now used for headings and body copy.

I’ve introduced Menlo as a secondary font, with monospaced system defaults as fallbacks. Currently Menlo is used for navigation links, badges, code and the footer.

Removing Space Mono also makes the site a little more resilient, as the browsers no longer needs to fetch any font files.

See more of what’s coming in Figma.

2022-02-14Changed

Callout design

A couple of small adjustments to the callout and the curriculum section.

Bug fixes & improvements

Callout now uses dotted outline rather than a background colour, so it doesn’t clash with the sign up form. This was more of an issue for the single column layout, as seen on smaller displays
Dropped the word “The” from “The Curriculum”, feels cleaner

2022-02-09AddedChangedFixed

Curriculum and sticky sign up form

Homepage now includes a course curriculum, well part of one at least. More to come soon. Lot’s of other smaller bits too.

New features

Currculum added to homepage
Scroll margin added to id’s for elements that can be targeted, a nice little trick I leart from Andy Bell
Menu added to sitehead

Changes

Site logo in sitehead moved to left and site title hidden for all but screen readers
Sign up form now sticky on larger devices and includes first name input, also removed button down link

Bug fixes & improvements

Callout now takes an optional icon, also added missing box shadow
Replaced missing paragraph spacing on generic single pages, like thanks, etc

2022-02-02AddedFixed

Links, skip link and `text-size-adjust`

New feature

Added a skip link to improve accessibility, so you can now jump straight to main content using keyboard tabbing, etc
Improved link legibility by adding a hover effect

Bug fixes & improvements

Added text-size-adjust to reset to prevent inflated text on mobile landscape orientation. Props to Kilian for help with this one
Updated changelog permalink structure to include year, month and day

2022-02-01AddedChanged