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The neighborhood nav, a hero unmasked, and the flyout set free

Highconvention-astro 2 min readBy Christopher W
TL;DR: Christopher's second feedback round of the day, all shipped: marquees become full carousels with arrows, page dots and a counter; a scroll cue bows at the bottom of every hero and fades on scroll; the progress line moved to the navbar's bottom edge; "click me 1st" became "Neighborhood Nav"; the left-offset hero was unmasked (A.L.E.X. had claimed .hero as a two-column grid); the kit's More-panel flyouts were invisible because the panel's own overflow clipped them; the Convention gallery gained clickable albums and a david-amaringo-style lightbox; and every pill row centers.
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🧭 The hero was never off-center by accident

A CSSOM autopsy finally named the culprit: A.L.E.X. styles .hero as its own two-column grid — so every Convention hero text sat in a narrow left column while the right column held stars. The fix is one line in the new convention-extras.css: the hero is a plain centered block again. The extras layer exists so this round’s overrides cascade cleanly after chrome instead of rewriting a 13KB stylesheet by hand (transcribing large files by eye is how placeholder pushes happen; the layer also makes the next fix a one-liner).

🖱️ Marquees grow controls

All marquees on the gallery suite and the Convention site now carry arrows, page dots, and a counter — draggable, wheel-scrubbable, dots jump, arrows page, and the little counter always knows where you are.

🕯️ The flyout that wasn’t there

The kit’s More panel gained category flyouts yesterday; today the children were invisible. Cause found: the panel’s own overflow-y: auto (added when the desks landed) clipped anything positioned outside its box — which is exactly where the flyouts live by design. The inner scroll wrapper already owned list scrolling, so the panel let go (overflow: visible) and the fly rose above the sticky header. Fixed in the hub’s arrival/more-tree.css.

🖼️ Choose an album, open the lightbox

The Convention gallery page restructured: the marquee lives inside the hero, every tile opens the lightbox (large image, arrows, caption, download, Escape closes) in the david-amaringo style, and a new Choose-an-album band reads the fellowship’s own photos.json — albums with photos open the lightbox; albums still gathering point to Pixieset or the walkthrough.

📸 The two large gallery pages

The gallery index and walkthrough (44KB and 27KB) got the same round — Neighborhood Nav, progress-in-header, cues, carousel controls, centered pills — but went out as download links for Christopher’s terminal instead of a chat-transcribed push, after yesterday’s placeholder lesson. Real content, handed over whole.

One line of CSS unmasked a day of misalignment. The record keeps it so the next hero starts honest.