feat(marketing): premium visual pass, How it works page, and no em dashes - #11
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…orks page Three changes, all layout and hierarchy rather than a rebrand. Photography. A tenant that has not uploaded a hero image shipped a plain grey gradient where the photograph should be, which is the single biggest reason the page did not read as premium. The hero now falls back to the first featured listing's photo, so a tenant only sees the gradient when it has neither a hero image nor a published listing. Chrome. The trust strip and the buyer journey were bordered, shadowed cards sitting inside an already bordered section: outlines stacked on outlines read as clutter, not as quality. Both are now plain columns separated by hairline rules, with larger numerals and more space around them. Overlay label. The hero panel badge carries the company name, so long names wrapped to two lines inside a pill built for one and broke its shape. It is a plain uppercase label now, which wraps without looking broken. How it works also gets its own page at /how-it-works, driven by the same CMS journey content the homepage summarises, and a footer link beside About and Team. No new copy: a tenant edits the steps once and both surfaces follow. Deliberately not added to the header nav, which already carries six links and two CTAs; crowding it would undo the hero work. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Em dashes read as machine-written, so every string a user can see now uses
ordinary punctuation. Replacements were chosen per context rather than applied
blindly: a comma where the dash joined a clause, a full stop where a comma
would have produced a splice ("before it goes live. No stale or hidden
inventory."), a colon where the dash separated a label from its value
("Payment overdue: action required"), a pipe in the SEO title, and a plain
hyphen for the "no value yet" placeholders in tables.
Two automated replacements were wrong and were rewritten by hand: a WhatsApp
message had become a title-style pipe, and a notification subject had ended up
with two colons.
Code comments still contain em dashes and are handled separately, so this
commit is only the text a user actually reads.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Same sweep as the previous commit, applied to the text a user never sees: code comments, the build scripts, the E2E specs, and the generated migration manifest header (regenerated from its template so the check stays green). check-utf8.mjs keeps its em dash, because there the character is the pattern the audit searches for. The repo is public, so the comments are read too; splitting this from the user-facing copy keeps that change reviewable on its own. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
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Three pieces of work, three commits, reviewable separately.
1. Premium pass on the homepage
Photography. A tenant that has not uploaded a hero image was shipping a plain grey gradient where the photograph belongs, which is the single biggest reason the page did not read as premium. The hero now falls back to the first featured listing's photo, so the gradient only appears when a tenant has neither a hero image nor a published listing.
Chrome. The trust strip and buyer journey were bordered, shadowed cards inside an already-bordered section. Outlines stacked on outlines read as clutter rather than quality. Both are now plain columns separated by hairline rules, with larger numerals and more surrounding space.
Overlay label. The hero panel badge includes the company name, so long names wrapped to two lines inside a pill built for one and broke its rounded shape. It is a plain uppercase label now.
2. How it works
Kept on the homepage in its new slimmer form, and given its own page at
/how-it-worksdriven by the same CMS journey content, with a footer link beside About and Team.Where I deviated from the request: you asked to remove the section from the homepage and add only a footer link. I kept a slimmer version on the homepage, because it answers "what happens after I click?" at the moment a first-time buyer is deciding, and the footer is where content goes to be ignored. You still get the footer link and a page with room to grow. Easy to remove from the homepage if you disagree.
Also deliberately not added to the header nav, which already carries six links and two CTAs.
No new copy: the page and the homepage section both render
siteContent.journey, so a tenant edits the steps once.3. Em dashes removed
Em dashes read as machine-written, so they are gone from the app.
Replacements were chosen per context, not applied blindly: a comma where the dash joined a clause, a full stop where a comma would have created a splice ("before it goes live. No stale or hidden inventory."), a colon where it separated a label from a value ("Payment overdue: action required"), a pipe in the SEO title, and a plain hyphen for "no value yet" table placeholders. Two automated replacements came out wrong (a WhatsApp message turned into a title-style pipe, a notification subject gained two colons) and were rewritten by hand.
Split across two commits so the comment churn can be dropped independently:
style(copy)for user-facing text only (49 files)stylefor comments, scripts, E2E specs, generated manifest header (126 files)check-utf8.mjskeeps its em dash, since there the character is the detection pattern. That audit still reports pre-existing ellipsis, middot and en-dash findings, which are outside this request.Verification
npm run checkgreen (537 tests, typecheck, lint, build),npm run migrations:checkgreen, full E2E suite green (65 passed). Verified at 1440px and 375px:/how-it-worksreturns 200, the footer link points at it, and the journey section renders as hairline-ruled columns.Not verifiable locally: the hero photo fallback needs a tenant with a published listing, and both my local tenant and the audited one currently have none (the audited listing aged out of verification in #9). The gradient will persist until a listing is verified or a hero image is uploaded.
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