Replace the flat minimal sections with a bento layout (ui-ux-pro-max "Bento
Box Grid" style) while keeping the light theme and single blue accent.
- Bento grid system in CSS: 4-col -> 2-col -> 1-col, varied spans (span-2,
row-2), 22px tiles, hover lift, dark/accent/tint tile variants
- Hero is now a bento: dark name/anchor tile + value-prop tile + accent
availability tile + social tile
- Services: bento tiles with a tinted featured tile and a dark AI tile
- Stack: four category tiles (AI/ML tinted)
- Portfolio: featured 2x2 tile + colored covers per project
- Pipeline / expertise / blog / contact kept as different layouts for rhythm
Verified: 4-col desktop, clean 1-col mobile with no horizontal overflow,
no console errors. Tailwind bundle rebuilt.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Audited the site with the ui-ux-pro-max skill. It validated the brand blue
(#2563EB == its SaaS primary) but flagged real high-severity gaps:
- Contrast: muted grays were zinc-400 (~2.8:1, fails WCAG AA). Bumped the
muted token + all text-zinc-400 to zinc-500 (#71717a, ~4.6:1).
- Touch targets: social buttons 38px -> 44x44 (meets 44pt minimum).
- Cursor + disabled: cursor-pointer on buttons; disabled state dims + blocks.
- Form a11y: required-field asterisks (name/service/budget/message),
autocomplete on name/company, and role=status aria-live=polite on the
submit status so screen readers announce success/error.
Kept Syne + system fonts and the blue accent (skill suggested Inter + an
AI-purple palette its own anti-patterns reject). Rebuilt Tailwind bundles.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Redesign-preserve pass on the light editorial theme (dials 7/5/3):
- Hero: live availability status, accent value-prop, role line, social row,
staggered entrance
- Motion (all motivated, reduced-motion safe): CSS scroll-driven reading
progress bar, scrollspy nav with animated underline, CTA/blog arrow nudges,
service hover accent rule, portfolio cover scale, card lift
- Shared multi-column footer across home + blog (brand, nav, contact, social)
- Fix anchor scroll offset under the fixed navbar (scroll-margin-top)
- Wire real social: LinkedIn, Instagram, email (code.soroush@gmail.com)
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Full rewrite of the portfolio site from Next.js 14 to .NET 10:
- ASP.NET Core 10 Razor Pages, no Node.js dependency
- EF Core 10 + SQLite (same schema as before — data survives upgrade)
- Cookie authentication (same single-password model)
- Resend contact form via HttpClient
- Bilingual FA/EN via locale cookie + BasePageModel
- All UI ported to Razor Pages with Tailwind CDN + custom CSS
- Vanilla JS: particles, typewriter, cursor, animations, portfolio modal
- Dockerfile: SDK 10.0-alpine → aspnet 10.0-alpine (no npm/Node needed)
- CI/CD: dropped NPM_TOKEN, ADMIN_SESSION_SECRET — pure dotnet publish
Co-Authored-By: Claude Sonnet 4.6 <noreply@anthropic.com>