Mark's BackyardTimeline
Continued Improving the Site's Features and Experience
Recent work brought together the Lab, movies, games, comments, and image experience into one focused round of refinement, making the site easier to explore and browse.
HDR, Life Notes, and Article Components Reached a New Stage
This week brought photographed life back to the site more faithfully: HDR keeps more of the light and atmosphere, while Life Notes now feels much more like browsing an album on a phone. At the same time, frequently used cards, asides, floated images, and travel routes became reusable article components, leaving less scaffolding to rebuild and more room for the stories themselves.
Applied to Join Travellings!
Prepared the site for joining Travellings by tightening external entry points, contact information, and blog-reading metadata so visitors can understand the site, reach the maintainer, and estimate reading effort more easily.
Blog Index, Archives, and Friends Page Polish
Continued tightening the blog content entry points by shipping the friends page, simplifying archives, and adding lightweight staggered motion to list-heavy views.
Blog Reading and Homepage Experience Upgrade
Completed the simplified blog mode replacement and the second-pass homepage polish, making reading, search, and content entry points calmer and clearer.
Movie Page Polished and Repaired in a New Pass
The movie page received another focused round of cleanup across information density, visual hierarchy, and responsive behavior, resulting in a calmer structure and more reliable layout scaling.
Homepage Content Locked for This Phase
The homepage now settles into a four-part structure: hero cover, blog rail, widget stack, and inspiration radar, with the interaction rhythm tuned for this stage.
Website v1.0 Completed
Shipped website v1.0 and published the first post.
Games Page Polish Completed
Completed UI and interaction refinements for the Steam games page, including search, sorting, stats, and bilingual localization polish.
Movie Page Completed and Visual Style Unified
From March 13 to March 18, the movie page was completed step by step across features, interaction structure, and site-wide visual alignment.
Life Page Completed
Launched the Life waterfall feed with multi-image modal, comments, and filtering/sorting.
Website Performance & SEO Optimization
Comprehensive optimization of website loading speed, search engine friendliness, and deployment configuration.
Feature Updates & UX Improvements
Improved About page, integrated Lightbox, and optimized SEO & mobile experience.
Infrastructure Upgrade
Major update: Introduced image hosting, upgraded comment system, and optimized architecture.
First Release
Mark's House is officially online, including basic features and blog module.
Project Kickoff
Project goals established and tech stack selected.