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Restore the earlier look without removed sections, AI art or the founder - #110

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Restores the earlier look, keeps the removed sections out, removes the AI art and the founder, and uses the new graphics where they fit. Don't merge yet.

This includes the commit from #109 (founder removal), so #109 can be closed once this is approved.

1. Earlier look

2. Sections kept out

  • Gone:
    • Price Is Right preview (home), and the game and six-week build timeline (projects)
    • the floating hero cards
    • "Founder's three strikes"
    • the sources strip and "Vindicated from what?"
    • the flip cards (fraud "after you buy" is a numbered list again)
    • the PPI drive animation
    • the phone notifications
  • Moved as on Oct 5: the stats are on home, AI scams is on About.
  • Still there: the "Project Price Is Right" card in the projects list, because it's a real project. Say if it should go too.

3. AI art removed

Gaps are closed:

  • CTA bands are one column.
  • The three "You shouldn't pay more" stats are now three cards.
  • The map news cards are text only, and the footnote no longer says "illustrations".

Removed from pages:

Image Where it was
cta-checklist-art (drawn SVG) Research page, purple CTA band
cta-people-art (drawn SVG) About and Team pages, purple CTA band
fraud-cta-shield-art (drawn SVG) Fraud page, purple CTA band
footing-quotes-chart (drawn SVG) Home, "You shouldn't pay more", row 1
footing-listing-art (drawn SVG) Home, "You shouldn't pay more", row 2
footing-clock-art (drawn SVG) Home, "You shouldn't pay more", row 3
news-ai-dealer-scams (drawn SVG) Dealer map, news card 1
news-spoofed-dealer-sites (drawn SVG) Dealer map, news card 2
news-junk-fee-settlement (drawn SVG) Dealer map, news card 3
news-dealer-warning-letters (drawn SVG) Dealer map, news card 4
news-california-sb-766 (drawn SVG) Dealer map, news card 5

Deleted files that weren't shown on any page (public/):


berkeley-mascot.png

engine.png

engine-diagram.png

illus-balance.png

illus-car-maze.png

illus-car-purple.png

illus-contract-icon.png

illus-contracts.png

illus-contracts-flying.png

illus-doc-signing.png

illus-girl-car-cream2.png

illus-girl-car-purple.png

illus-keytags.png

illus-shield-fist.png

illus-shield-wheel.png

illus-speedometer.png

illus-woman-arms-crossed.png

illus-woman-dealership.png

illus-woman-driving.png

illus-woman-keys.png

illus-woman-parking-doc.png

illus-woman-parking-lot.png

illus-woman-sunset.png

illus-woman-two-cars.png

ucla-mascot.png

ucsc-mascot.png

Kept:

  • real photos (team, campus, tabling, cars, engine bay, brochure) and the logos
  • functional icons
  • the pink slip and Carfax tours
  • the interactive explainers: yo-yo scene, four-square, fee receipt, APR calculator, rights phone demo and engine inspector
  • public/preview.webp is untouched. It's the same drawing as the key-handoff graphic and isn't used on any page.

4. Founder removed

5. Graphics from site-graphics

  • Backgrounds are removed (or the image sits on a white rounded card) and the files are converted to webp.
  • Nothing is shown larger than its real size.
Graphic Where it went
key-handoff Fraud page hero, beside the title on a white rounded card. 722px wide, shown at 520px or less. 11 KB webp.
icon-brake-warning Home, "Pre-Purchase Inspection Guide" card icon. Replaces the generic magnifier icon; background removed; 120px webp.
icon-steering-shield Home, "Fraud Prevention" card icon. Replaces the generic shield icon; background removed; 120px webp.
icon-battery Deleted. There's no battery or electrical section to put it in.
automotive-literacy-poster Deleted. It's a Berkeley event flyer with small text, and no section fits it.
car-top-purple Deleted. It would be decoration only.
logo-key-car Deleted. It duplicates the header logo.
logo-key-car-wordmark Deleted. It duplicates the header logo.
logo-fist-key Deleted. It's a second logo next to the header one.

Checks

  • Pages checked at 1440px and 390px, in English and Spanish:
    • home, about, research, team, inspection, fraud, documents, map, join and the footer
    • no sideways scroll on any of them
    • no removed sections, no AI art, no founder text
  • Fixed on the way: Spanish fraud page at 390px. The four-square scrolled sideways because of "25.000 US$"; it now fits. Main also scrolled sideways on the Spanish home page; the cause, the Price Is Right preview, is gone.
  • /board and /board/ucla load, and UCLA sign-in works.
  • pnpm lint: 0 errors, the same 4 existing warnings.
  • tsc --noEmit and pnpm build both pass.
  • Not changed here: the About slideshow and the home campus photos are shown slightly larger than their files (for example 1440px from 1350px). They're the same as on main.

Before / after

Left is main, right is this branch. Full-page screenshots are in the images-only pr-screenshots-site-look-cleanup branch, which can be deleted after review.

EN home: desktop and phone
EN about: desktop and phone
EN research: desktop and phone
EN team: desktop and phone
EN inspection: desktop and phone
EN fraud: desktop and phone
EN documents: desktop and phone
EN map: desktop and phone
EN join: desktop and phone
ES home: desktop and phone
ES fraud: desktop and phone

Generated by Claude Code

getvindicated2day and others added 4 commits October 15, 2026 05:17
Key handoff illustration, fist/key logo, Automotive Literacy poster,
battery and brake warning icons, steering-shield icon, key-car logo
(with and without wordmark), and a top-down purple car.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Removes Rana Darwich's name, photo, video, bio, story, quotes and
"founded by" lines from everything visitors (and search engines) see, in
all 10 languages:

- About: the founder story (strikes, pull quote, "About the Founder") and
  the founder video are gone, with the #story anchor. Meta description is
  now "What VINdicated is, what we do, and how to get involved." (other
  languages keep their existing translated sentence about the mission).
- Home: the "Founder's three strikes" section is removed; the hero's
  "Our story" button now opens /about.
- Header: "From the Founder" is removed from the About menu.
- Footer: just "© 2026 VINdicated. All rights reserved."; the separate
  "Founded by" line and the copyright suffix are gone in every language.
- Team: her entry is removed from lib/team.ts and every dictionary.
- Inspection: the salesperson quote cited to her is removed.
- Join: she's removed from the Berkeley leads line.
- Deleted public/videos/founder-rana.mp4,
  public/images/about/founder-rana-poster.webp, public/team/rana.png and
  the FounderStory, FounderVideo and FounderStrikes components, with
  their CSS and dictionary types. The old copy in
  scripts/migrate-i18n.mjs no longer has the "Founded by" line either.

Unchanged: the volunteer-form email routing that CCs her, and the board
hub.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
- Designed pages from 38feb50 with the flat header from #105, minus the
  sections removed since (Price Is Right preview and game, build
  timeline, hero cards, strikes, sources strip, flip cards, PPI drive).
  Stats stay on home, AI scams on About, as moved on Oct 5.
- Remove drawn and generated art: CTA band art, equal-footing charts,
  map news illustrations, and unused illus-*, mascot and engine images.
  Stat rows become cards; CTA bands are single column.
- Use the site graphics where they fit: key handoff on the fraud hero,
  brake warning and steering shield icons on the home guide cards.
  Converted to webp with backgrounds removed; unused originals deleted.
- Fit long currency formats in the four-square on phones.
- Drop CSS for the deleted sections.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
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getvindicated2day merged commit 45faa34 into main Oct 15, 2026
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