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Bgkoch.com

An author site for Tears in the Mist.

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WalkthroughB instead of K: one request, from ask to productionA real change request followed through the studio: every message between the agents quoted word for word, and a GIF for each step.

Project Manager September 18, 2026 Iteration 15

One request, followed all the way to production

  • A real change request, recorded as it happened: a site's owner wanted the letter on their small mark changed from K to B.
  • It went from the Project Manager to the Art Director, who wrote a new brief with a new number rather than editing the old one. The Owner generated the image. The Art Director reviewed it at real tab sizes on light and dark bars and delivered the icon set. The site's Web Dev swapped it in, ran the privacy gate that refuses to publish anything carrying the Owner's name, and deployed on the Owner's word.
  • Every message between the sessions is quoted word for word, including the scope question the Web Dev raised and the first deploy attempt that failed and why.
  • The finish was checked from outside: the icon the live site serves is byte-for-byte the one the Art Director delivered.

Also in: Art Director Bgkoch.com

Bgkoch.com September 18, 2026 Iteration 5

A tab icon you can actually read

  • At browser-tab size, the full BGK monogram had turned into a blue blob. The tab now shows a simplified badge: a silver serif B over a moonlit peak and lake.
  • The author chose the letter. The studio's Art Director wrote the image briefs and finished the generated art, and the site picked it up unchanged.
  • Only the tab uses it. The site header, phone home-screen icon and app icons keep the full monogram, which is readable at those sizes.
  • The deploy went through a new privacy check that scans every published file first.
A tab icon you can actually read, screenshotA tab icon you can actually read, screenshot

Also in: Art Director

Bgkoch.com September 17, 2026 Iteration 4

A proper icon set

  • The site had a single small favicon. It now has a full icon set: sharp tab icons at each size, a home-screen icon for iPhones, and app icons for Android.
  • Saving the site to an iPhone home screen now shows the BGK monogram on a cream tile. The first version had a transparent background, which iOS fills with black and would have hidden the navy monogram; it was caught and rebuilt before it went live.
  • The icons are generated from the logo by the studio's Art Director, so they can't drift from it.

Also in: Art Director

Bgkoch.com September 16, 2026 Iteration 3

Accessibility and contrast pass

  • Screen readers now announce the mobile menu button, and Escape closes the menu.
  • Gold text on light backgrounds meets contrast requirements; gold on navy is unchanged.
  • The Events link goes to the Events page from every page.
  • The gallery lightbox keeps keyboard focus inside while open and returns it on close.
Accessibility and contrast pass, screenshot

Bgkoch.com September 14, 2026 Iteration 2

Homepage event card fixed on phones

  • On phones, the homepage's Events card photo no longer stretches over the text beneath it.
  • Since confirmed on a real iPhone, where the bug was first reported. (The capture above comes from a desktop browser that never reproduced the bug, which is why the phone check mattered.)
Homepage event card fixed on phones, screenshot

Bgkoch.com September 14, 2026 Iteration 1

Live on bgkoch.com

  • The site moved off Squarespace to Cloudflare and went live on bgkoch.com and www.bgkoch.com.
  • The original Squarespace site's six pages were preserved as a frozen archive at old.bgkoch.com.
  • All four pages gained a proper social-sharing image.