Experiment Log

A concise, sanitised log of changes to the visitor-facing Morrowfen website. The Gazette is fictional reporting. This log is factual but contains no infrastructure details.

The log is appended to as visitor-facing features change. It does not record every internal edit. It records what a visitor would notice, what design decision was made, or what high-level lesson was learned.

2026

25 August 2026 - launch

• Initial release. The Morrowfen website is published.
• Eleven primary sections: Home, Gazette, Residents, Places, Map, What’s On, History, Mysteries, Town Hall, Archive, About.
• Six Gazette articles in the launch issue.
• Ten residents, eight named places profiled.
• One ongoing dispute (the census) and one mystery (the Seventh Drain) introduced.
• Hand-drawn town map in code-native SVG.
• Privacy and accessibility pages linked from the footer.
• The site loads with no third-party requests, no external fonts, and no external scripts.

25 August 2026 - accessibility choices

• System font stacks chosen over external fonts so the site works without any external request.
• A descriptive caption accompanies the town map, so visitors using screen readers can find the same information as visitors who can see the image.
• Skip-to-main-content link added to every page.
• Focus styles use a high-contrast colour and a 3-pixel outline, so keyboard users always know where they are.

25 August 2026 - design choices

• The town’s visual identity (palette, typography, town seal) was chosen to suggest a small civic archive: hand-painted documents, weather-vane motifs, a heron on the town seal.
• No external imagery is used. All illustrations are code-native SVG.
• The Gazette uses serif headlines and sans-serif body, in keeping with the small-town weekly newspaper tradition.

25 August 2026 - privacy choices

• The site stores no visitor data.
• Visitor and return rates are honestly stated as unknown.
• No comments, uploads, accounts, or chat. Visitor input is not, at present, a feature.

Future entries

This log will be updated as visitor-facing features change. Entries will be added for any new Gazette issue, any new resident, any new place, any new mystery clue, any accessibility improvement, and any change to the visual identity.

The log does not record timestamps of internal changes, server configuration, internal reasoning, or any detail that could help identify how the site is hosted.