Correctly rejected: the last pass was the old page in new paint. It kept the
skeleton — eight numbered sections, a split hero, a twelve-row comparison
matrix — and changed only the palette. A palette is not a design.
What is actually different now:
- The § numbering is gone. Numbered sections with a drawn rule are a document
convention, and the document voice is exactly what the product's design
system dropped.
- The hero shows the product instead of describing it: centred type, then a
wide panel built from the real console's own tokens, cropped by the section
below. The old hero put a table of facts beside the headline, so a visitor
read two columns before seeing anything.
- Six identical cards, then six more, then six more became one asymmetric
grid — a large panel, a dark tile, an accent tile, a wide module row — so
the important thing is allowed to be bigger than the rest.
- The industries are one dense two-column list instead of six cards repeating
each other's shape.
- The page has one dark hinge in the middle (the deployment) rather than a
dark section among seven light ones.
- The evidence table became rows that pair the measure with the piece of
paper you can hand somebody, which is what it is for.
- Prices are cards, with the full matrix folded away underneath. The matrix
used to be the first thing a visitor met: twelve rows of ticks before a
single price was legible.
- The FAQ heading sits still while the questions scroll past it.
- The footer is a real footer.
The header is a floating bar rather than a full-width band, and opaque in
both states — translucency plus backdrop-blur reads as a rendering fault over
the dark panels that scroll under it.
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Reported plainly: the site is still in the old style. It was — it was the
last of the three surfaces the token file describes that had never been
converted. landing.blade.php carried its own complete design system inside a
<style> block: warm paper, IBM Plex Serif headlines, 3px corners, its own
scale of greys, written before the tokens existed. Somebody who clicked
"Anmelden" left one company and arrived at another.
The page now draws from resources/css/portal-tokens.css like the portal and
the console: same surfaces, same radii, same button hierarchy, same
small-caps label, one family at weight 700 instead of a serif. What still
differs is rhythm, which is what a marketing page is allowed to differ in.
Content is unchanged. New: components/layouts/site.blade.php holds the header
and footer for every public page, and legal.blade.php uses it too — the
imprint used to be a stranded card in a third style again.
Two things found on the way:
- .lbl set `color: var(--muted)`, which is not a token. An undefined var() in
`color` computes to `unset`, so every small-caps label on every surface was
whatever colour its container happened to be.
- The big figures were set in mono. Mono gives the decimal comma a full glyph
cell, so "99,95" read as three separate numbers.
coming-soon and the status page stay self-contained on purpose — both are
served when the application may not have a built stylesheet at all.
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The panel had been built by reading the template and believing the result.
Every round of review found the same class of defect, so this round the
template was rendered in a browser and measured with getComputedStyle, and the
implementation measured the same way — two number columns instead of an
opinion.
That immediately settled a disagreement: a review of the template's SOURCE said
the metric grid used a 20px gap. Rendered, it is 14px. The measurement wins.
Brought to the template's figures: label 11.5px (it was 11px in three separate
places, which is how it drifted — it is now one .lbl rule), value tracking
-0.02em, unit weight 450, metric row 6px above and 14px between, page head
centred with a 14px gap, grid gap 14px, columns switching at 1101/561px and the
h1 at 901px to match the template's own breakpoints, ring 62px, bar 5px.
The shared button now takes its height from min-height (40px) rather than
vertical padding, at 14px/600 with 0 18px padding and a 10px radius — a button
keeps its height whatever sits inside it, icon, spinner or bare text.
Also here, from the same round of review:
- The chart's blue border was Tailwind's own `ring` utility colliding with a
component class of the same name. Renamed to `.metric-ring`. This was
dismissed once as a screenshot artefact; it was real.
- Page titles lost the `sm:text-3xl` (40px) an earlier bulk edit had appended
to 23 of them. The template's h1 is 30px.
- The users table has its actions back — edit, suspend, lock and delete — for
every seat that is not the owner, with the owner refused in the action itself
and not merely hidden in the markup.
DemoCustomerSeeder writes one complete customer as real rows: instance,
subscription, six seats across four roles, a backup, current-period traffic and
thirty days of samples with a deliberate wobble and one day at 286/288 checks.
Nothing in the panel is drawn from a fixture any more, so anything missing
shows up as missing. Removing the demo is one deletion.
Verified: 607 tests, and a Codex comparison of the two measurement sets —
"a person would call them the same design", the only difference a 1px gap.
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The dashboard was built to my own idea of the layout rather than to the
template that was signed off: a coloured pill where the template has a stamped
mono line, bare figures where it has a label with a chevron, a unit on its own
line instead of beside the number, and no ring at all. There is no point
agreeing a design and then building something adjacent to it. The metric card
is now a component that draws the template's form, and the pages use it.
Two more places were still showing data that does not exist:
- Support listed three tickets to every customer, complete with reference
numbers and dates. There is no ticket model; it was fixture text. A request
list also belongs in the console, where an operator can see who filed what.
Removed until there is something real behind it.
- The datacentre name reached the customer through the cloud tab's copy as
well. Customer surfaces name the jurisdiction; the building is operator
information.
And the actions column rendered an empty cell for the owner, who can be neither
re-invited nor revoked. An empty cell reads as a missing feature; it now says
so with a dash and a title.
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The console was a second product. admin-tokens.css held a complete dark set —
its own surfaces, its own orange, its own status triad — so every shared
component had to work in two worlds, and the two halves of the application
drifted apart in ways nobody could see from inside either one. That file now
carries density and nothing else: smaller type, tighter rows, tighter corners.
Colour comes from one place.
The tokens themselves are rebuilt around what the redesign settled on:
- Radii scaled to object size (9/11/16/22) instead of one value everywhere,
which is what made the interface read as a design-system specification
rather than as a product.
- Warm, broad, low shadows. A neutral grey drop shadow belongs to a different
design language and reads as cold on this ground.
- --accent-press, which several rules already referenced and nothing defined.
An undefined var() does not make a browser skip the declaration; it computes
to , and for background-color that is transparent — the accent button
lost its fill on hover and left white text on white.
- No serif. A serif headline is what made every page read as a document, which
is the impression the whole redesign exists to remove. --font-serif now
points at the sans so nothing breaks while call sites are cleaned up.
The two shells are one shell with two configurations, and both finally have a
mobile navigation: the sidebar used to simply disappear below 900px, leaving no
way to move around the application at all on a phone.
The customer dashboard is bound to real records — instance, seats, traffic,
backups, contract — instead of the fixtures it shipped with. Where something is
not measured, storage consumption, it says what was contractually agreed rather
than inventing a figure. This is the sheet a customer forwards to their auditor.
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Safari zooms when a focused input is smaller than 16px, and then leaves the page
zoomed — so on an iPhone every form throws the layout about, and the way back is
a pinch. The usual fix is the meta-viewport switch, which suppresses the zoom by
disabling pinch-zoom entirely: it takes a real accessibility feature away from
everyone to solve a cosmetic problem for some. Sizing the fields at 16px on
touch devices removes the reason instead.
!important on purpose: it has to beat every text-size utility on every field in
the application, and a rule that loses to `text-sm` on one form is worth
nothing. Checkboxes and radios are left alone — no text to inflate, and sizing
them there breaks the box.
Also -webkit-text-size-adjust, so iOS stops inflating body copy in landscape.
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The marketing page was a generic centred hero in the system font stack: it
neither used the design system the console is built on nor looked like the
product it sells. Rebuilt around what CluPilot actually promises — security you
can produce evidence for — so the page reads as a controlled technical
document: a specification plate instead of a hero image, numbered sections, an
audit register with rhythm and proof per measure, and a price sheet rather than
floating cards. IBM Plex Serif joins Sans and Mono as the display voice, self
hosted as static files so the public page renders even without the Vite build.
The prices were written into the page by hand, and the page and the catalogue
had already drifted apart on three of four plans: the site advertised 249 € for
a plan the checkout charges 399 € for. The sheet now reads the catalogue, like
every other caller — including the currency, which is configurable and was also
hard-coded here.
The catalogue fails loudly on purpose; a public website must not. A broken or
overlapping catalogue is caught in the controller alone: the page still
renders, the sheet is replaced by "on request", and nobody is quoted a number
the checkout would not honour.
The sign-in and registration panels shared a copy-pasted orange gradient. They
now share one component and the same ink plate as the site, so the two halves
of the product no longer look like two companies.
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Separate admin console at /admin, gated to is_admin users (EnsureAdmin middleware
+ migration/seed; a plain customer user is seeded to prove the gate). Distinct dark
aesthetic achieved purely by token scoping: .theme-admin overrides every CSS design
token to a dark graphite / signal-orange palette, so ALL shared components (button,
card, badge, table, stat, chart) render dark with zero new markup (R3). Chart island
now reads tokens from its own element, so charts are theme-aware.
Sections (each full-page class-based Livewire, English routes R13, localized DE/EN):
- Overview: fleet KPIs, fleet-growth line, host-load bars, MRR bars, active runs, alerts.
- Customers: table + plan doughnut. Instances: fleet table (vmid/host/storage).
- Hosts: capacity cards (storage/CPU bars). Provisioning: runs table + live stepper.
- Revenue: MRR/ARR/ARPU/churn KPIs, MRR line, plan doughnut, recent payments.
- Locale-aware month labels/currency (Carbon/Number).
18 new Pest tests (guest redirect / non-admin 403 / admin render per section) → 44
green. R12 browser: all six admin pages HTTP 200, ZERO console errors (Chart.js dark).
Codex (R15) — clean.
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