CipherCell homepage relaunch

Static site for www.ciphercell.de, built with Astro. Design foundation: CLAUDE.md (European deep-tech minimalism: warm paper, one neo-grotesque, hairlines, no accent colour).

Run

npm install
npm run dev       # http://localhost:4321
npm run build     # static output in dist/
npm run preview   # serve dist/
npm run check     # Astro + TypeScript check

Where things live

Path	Purpose
src/styles/tokens.css	Every colour, type step, spacing, radius and duration. Components use only these.
src/styles/base.css	Font faces, reset, focus ring, primitives (.container, .grid, .section, .prose, .link, .button).
src/i18n/ui.ts	All interface copy, English and German, one object per language with the same shape.
src/data/team.ts	Team members, roles, portraits, links.
src/content/insights/*.md	Insights posts (content collection). Front matter: title, date, lang, category, readingTime, author, cover.
src/components/home/*	One file per home section, in page order: Hero, Manifesto, Method (with MethodDiagram), Stages (with GridObject), Sectors, Proof, Quote, Insights, Contact.
src/components/home/GridObject.astro	The four wireframe objects on the stage cards (sphere, cube, plane, wave). Geometry is computed at build time; single stroke in --ink.
src/components/home/MethodDiagram.astro	The four-stage loop, wide and tall compositions. Labels come from ui.method.stages.
scripts/*.mjs	Review tooling: shot.mjs (full page), scroll-shots.mjs (viewport by viewport), tabs-test.mjs (keyboard test for the sectors tabs), contact-sheet.mjs. Need npx astro preview --port 4322.
src/pages/_*.astro	Shared page bodies. index.astro and de/index.astro render _Home.astro with a lang prop, and so on.
src/assets/images/	Source images. Astro emits AVIF with a WebP fallback and explicit dimensions.
public/fonts/	Self-hosted Inter Tight variable (latin, latin-ext).

Routes

/, /team, /insights, /insights/<slug>, /imprint, /privacy, /404 and the same under /de. hreflang alternates and a sitemap are generated. The language switch sits in the footer.

Things the host has to provide

• Contact form. The form posts first_name, last_name, email, message and a honeypot field website to POST /contact, as the current site does. The handler is server-side and not part of this static build.
• Matomo. The privacy page links to the existing opt-out on cipher.uber.space. The tracking snippet itself is not included; add it in src/layouts/Base.astro if analytics should continue.

Adding a post

Create src/content/insights/<slug>.md with the front matter used in xg-aloe-user-forum.md. Put the cover image in src/assets/images/ and reference it with a relative path. The three newest posts appear on the home page automatically.

Imagery

The mast at dusk (mast-at-dusk.jpg) is the one documentary photograph from the old site; it remains the cover of the first post. The five other scene images were generated with Magnific (Seedream 5 Pro) on 18 September 2026 in a desaturated documentary style, because no real photography existed:

File	Used in	Magnific creation
plant-at-dusk.jpg	Hero	https://www.magnific.com/app/creation/DoQZmiipcl
engineer-glass.jpg	Method section	https://www.magnific.com/app/creation/3zdScUIREY
sector-5g.jpg	Sectors, tab 1	https://www.magnific.com/app/creation/s7ZQP52l8e
sector-substation.jpg	Sectors, tab 2	https://www.magnific.com/app/creation/yi0r27vPW9
sector-datacentre.jpg	Sectors, tab 3	https://www.magnific.com/app/creation/eIHAvetdqL

They are placeholders in the sense of the brief: swap them for the company's own documentary photography when it exists, keeping the same file names and the img-doc treatment. The grid objects on the stage cards were prototyped as a Magnific sheet (https://www.magnific.com/app/creation/aFsD5crfSh) and then rebuilt as procedural SVG so the stroke matches the rest of the site.

Interaction

Two islands of script: the mobile navigation toggle in Header.astro and the sectors tabs in Sectors.astro (ARIA tablist, arrow keys, Home and End). Without JavaScript every sector panel and its image is shown in full; the html.js class set in Base.astro switches to one at a time.