Internal changelog
Every update to the Bon Sentiment website, date-stamped and reverse-chronological. Includes content, design, brand, tracking, and infrastructure work. Hidden from search engines.
- Total entries
- 37
- Public
- 27
- Internal-only
- 10
May 2026
6 entries
05 MAY
QA pass — mobile illustration fallbacks, nav breakpoint, hero polish
Mobile-only fallbacks for the illustrated process + impact diagrams (clearer at phone widths). Nav breakpoint pinned to Felix's 880px so the desktop nav doesn't appear too early on tablets. Hero spacing tightened.
05 MAY
Phase B — /retreats, /scouting, /about ported to the 2026-05 system
Three inner pages rebuilt in the 2026-05 system: shared SubHero, ImageBreak, illustrated diagrams, statement bands, two-tier gold. /travel route dropped (replaced by the new ThreeWays + ProofGrid blocks on the homepage).
05 MAY
Phase A — Felix's 2026-05 homepage redesign ported
Brand-new homepage from Felix's handoff: HeroV2, Context, ThreeWays, ProofGrid, illustrated process + impact sections, StatementBand, FinalCta. New two-tier gold + tightened typography across the system.
02 MAY
Microsoft Clarity (qlgxrr9j72) added alongside GA4
Same consent gate as GA4 — Clarity loads only after a visitor accepts analytics cookies. Gives session replay + heatmaps to complement GA4's quantitative view.
02 MAY
Google Analytics 4 (G-D1FL2XS33M) wired in behind cookie consent
Loads only after a visitor accepts analytics cookies. Tracks page views and CTA clicks (enquiry drawer, journal CTAs, social links, leadership programme PDF download).
01 MAY
Partners hidden from the primary nav — kept in footer
B2B prospects should land on Retreats / Scouting / Journal first. Partners stays discoverable from the footer for direct visits.
April 2026
31 entries
30 APR
Mobile a11y — journal back-links, legal-prose inline links, cookie button
Journal back-link, legal-page inline links, and cookie-banner buttons now hit a 44px tap-target floor. Cookie-banner action carries a data-track attribute for analytics.
30 APR
Mobile responsiveness sweep — touch targets, legibility, cookie banner
Site-wide audit of touch target sizes, body-text legibility on small screens, cookie banner layout under 480px.
30 APR
internalRemoved the standalone /gallery route from the studio site
The gallery experiment didn't add enough over the imagery already woven through Retreats, Scouting, and the homepage — pulled to keep the surface area focused.
29 APR
internalReverted cross-brand footer experiment + /brand microsite
Tried a Bislac footer bridge with a palm seal, plus a /brand and /brand/voice microsite. Both rolled back — Felix preferred the cleaner edition footer and a smaller surface area for now.
29 APR
internalApex domain — site moved to bon-sentiment.com (no www)
SITE constant updated; sitemap, schema, and OG metadata now use the apex.
29 APR
internalCONTRIBUTING.md added — house rules for the codebase
29 APR
Scouting + About — team URLs, 5-image grid, '20 years' refinement
Cherry-picked from staging: team member portrait URLs replace placeholders; Scouting hero now a 5-image grid; About copy updated to '20 years' of experience.
29 APR
Leadership Programme — 1-page summary instead of full deck (5.7 MB → 1.4 MB)
Replaced the full programme PDF with a focused 1-page summary. Faster download, less to wade through for a first-pass enquiry.
29 APR
About — Felix portrait swapped to Felix's preferred shot
29 APR
internalTravel page — Felix's new photography (Kilena yacht, Es Vicenç, Valldemossa)
Replaced placeholder Travel imagery with Felix's own photography. Page later retired in Phase B.
29 APR
internal/gallery feature + nav additions cherry-picked from staging
Later rolled back — see entry below.
29 APR
Sitewide legibility audit — small body text up ~20%, scouting bio fix
Bumped small body sizes across the site to improve legibility, fixed the scouting bio formatting.
29 APR
Inline CTA components for MDX journal posts
JournalCTA + JournalFigure components — inline cards inside long-form articles that link back to retreats / scouting / enquire.
29 APR
Journal — 3 articles + 9 hero images imported from Felix's handoff
Three new MDX posts (Shift in Conditions, The Room and Its Light, Set & Setting in Film Production, Kill the Process) with hero photography from Felix's handoff zip.
29 APR
Felix's corrections — bio, retreats, scouting team, journal copy
29 APR
Leadership Programme PDF download added to the retreats page
26 APR
internalAll CTAs + schema email switched to felix@bon-sentiment.com
Default From and reply-to address aligned to the verified Resend sender.
26 APR
Legal pages, cookie consent, real photography, social links
Privacy / Terms / Legal Notice / Cookies live; bs_consent_v1 banner gates analytics; real Mallorca imagery replaces stock; IG/LinkedIn/FB links wired in the footer.
26 APR
EnquireDrawer wired to bon-sentiment-ops /api/leads
Every enquiry submission now POSTs to the back-office API and lands in Felix's leads inbox with source = bon_sentiment_studio + sub_source identifying which form.
26 APR
BS favicon + typography-led partner cards
Replaced placeholder favicon with the BS mark; rebuilt the partner cards as a typography-driven layout instead of logo-led.
26 APR
Polish pass — hero zoom-in, philosophy stagger, partner card refinements
26 APR
Medium-priority motion — drawer fade, pillar accent slide, image-break parallax
26 APR
framer-motion micro-interactions added across the site
26 APR
internalRemoved EN/DE language toggle and German from schema
Single-language site for v1 — the toggle was creating confusion and the German copy wasn't ready.
26 APR
Schema.org LocalBusiness JSON-LD added
Structured data so search engines and AI answer engines understand Bon Sentiment as a Mallorca-based studio.
26 APR
Phase 8 polish — sitemap, robots, OG metadata, next/image migration
Sitemap + robots.txt shipped, Open Graph + Twitter Card metadata on every page, all images migrated to next/image with explicit sizes.
26 APR
Phase 7 — Legibility audit + WCAG AA contrast fixes
Audited every text/background pair for WCAG AA contrast, bumped small body sizes for better legibility.
26 APR
Real Mallorca imagery, real partners, MDX journal
Stock photography replaced with curated Mallorca imagery from Felix; real partner roster; MDX-based journal pipeline.
26 APR
internal.planning multi-manus structure added (task_plan, findings, progress)
26 APR
internalMobile menu, responsive variants, curated Unsplash images
Mobile menu sheet, responsive layout variants for the v11 components, placeholder imagery from Unsplash before Felix's photography arrived.
26 APR
Bon Sentiment studio site v1 launched (v11 design port)
Initial commit — Felix's v11 mockups ported to Next.js 16 + Tailwind 4 + framer-motion.