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Replace navbar/footer social links with icons and clean up footer layout - #322

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Summary

  • Add YouTube, Twitch, GitHub, and RSS as icon buttons (Simple Icons, CC0) in place of plain text links in the navbar and footer
  • Group the navbar's utility icons (search, theme, YouTube, GitHub) behind a divider, separated from the page nav links, and make all four a consistent size with a shared hover state
  • Restyle the footer as a two-section layout: link/icon row on top, copyright below, with muted link colors and quieter icon buttons
  • Add CREDITS.md documenting the source and license of every icon and the self-hosted font

Sourced from Simple Icons (CC0 1.0) to match the existing brand icons
already in src/icons/ (bluesky, reddit, hackernews). These back the
upcoming navbar/footer icon links.
The plain "YouTube" nav link and the text-only Forums/Recommendations/
Archive/RSS/YouTube/Twitch/GitHub/Privacy/Refunds/Terms footer row were
hard to scan. Social/platform links (YouTube, GitHub in the nav; RSS,
YouTube, Twitch, GitHub in the footer) now render as icon buttons using
the new SVG assets, keeping the remaining footer text links as-is.
The YouTube/GitHub nav icons used the generic icon-button padding,
sizing them differently from the fixed 2.25rem search/theme-toggle
buttons next to them. Added them to the same fixed-size rule and gave
all icon buttons a shared border/color hover effect, since buttons and
icon links previously had no hover feedback in common.
With six text nav links plus four icon buttons all in one row, the
nav read as too busy. Wrapping search/theme/YouTube/GitHub in their
own group with a divider separates page navigation from utility
icons visually, without removing anything. Also fixes a mobile-only
bug the wrapper exposed: a padding rule for the collapsed menu was
overriding the icon buttons' fixed square size.
Split the footer into a link/icon row (site links left, social icons
right) with the copyright line below, instead of one stacked block.
Footer links are now muted with color+underline only on hover rather
than permanently underlined accent-blue text, and the social icons are
transparent by default, filling in on hover, for a quieter look.
A repo-only reference (not a website page) so anyone checking where
the brand icons, generic UI icons, and self-hosted PT Sans font came
from, and under what license, can find it without asking.
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  • New Features

    • Added YouTube and GitHub icon buttons to the header.
    • Added RSS, YouTube, Twitch, and GitHub icon buttons to the footer.
    • Added quick-access footer links for forums, recommendations, archive, privacy, refunds, and terms.
    • Improved responsive organization of header utilities and footer content.
    • Added hover states and consistent styling for icon buttons.
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    • Added credits for third-party icons and the PT Sans font, including their licenses.

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The update documents third-party asset licenses, replaces selected text social links with SVG icon buttons, restructures the header and footer with responsive styling, pins a transitive dependency, and makes a browser timing test deterministic.

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Site presentation and validation

Layer / File(s) Summary
Icon assets and attribution
CREDITS.md, src/layouts/BaseLayout.astro
The project documents licenses for third-party icons and fonts. The layout imports YouTube, Twitch, GitHub, and RSS SVG icons.
Navigation and footer layout
src/layouts/BaseLayout.astro, src/styles/global.css
The header groups utility controls and social links. The footer separates standard links, social icon buttons, and copyright text. Styles define spacing, hover states, button sizing, and mobile stacking.
Validation and dependency updates
tests/browser/site.spec.ts, package.json
The browser search test uses explicit clock control. npm pins smol-toml to version 1.8.0 for markdownlint-cli2.

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Description check ✅ Passed The description accurately covers the icon replacements, navbar utility grouping, footer redesign, asset credits, and related changes.
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In `@src/styles/global.css`:
- Around line 1058-1063: Update the .footer-social .icon-button rule to set its
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Comment thread src/styles/global.css
seanh1995 and others added 2 commits September 6, 2026 11:59
The base .icon-button rule sets color: var(--text), so the footer's
icon buttons stayed at full text brightness even though the footer
links around them are muted. Scoped the muted color to
.footer-social so the navbar's icon buttons (which should match the
bold nav links) are unaffected, and added an explicit hover override
since the muted rule would otherwise tie with and cancel the shared
icon-button hover color at equal specificity.
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ChrisTitusTech merged commit d3c823b into ChrisTitusTech:master Sep 13, 2026
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seanh1995 deleted the navbar-footer-cleanup branch September 14, 2026 04:47
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