Why become a member
- Rebuild the benefits grid as a 3x3 bento: 7 icon cards + 2 real event photos
(with captions), fixes the orphan card, adds hover motion. Swap the blank
fa-house-heart (Pro) for fa-house-user (Free) on "Feel at home".
Join form
- Merge the duplicate "There is a place for you here" section into the form's
path step (student / supporter cards now carry the descriptions); drop the
separate section. New heading "There is a place for you here"; centred layout.
- Redesign the choice cards: colour-coded (student orange / supporter teal)
icon circles, descriptions, hover lift + "Choose this" reveal.
- Fix the stray "Support MSOS" submit button showing on the path step.
Conversion + polish
- Floating "Become a member" CTA that appears after the hero and hides near the
form/final CTA, so the ask stays reachable without scrolling to the bottom.
- More space between section titles and their cards (numbers, reals, tests,
showcase, benefits).
- Testimonials: Elena -> Katerina (Koper); un-swap Ana (Maribor) and Marko
(Ljubljana); remove the "sample quotes" placeholder note.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
- Hero gradient now spans edge to edge (full-viewport ::before band behind the
centred content) and is more colourful/on-brand (warm peach to soft teal).
- Both hero CTAs (Become a member / See what we do) share one size so they align.
- Add hover (lift + shadow + colour shift) and active (press) states to the
reusable .btn classes, so all buttons site-wide get consistent feedback; plus
a focus-visible outline for keyboard users.
- Remove the confusing Community/Events/Support/... tag pills (they duplicated
the hero lead sentence). member.js updated + now emits main.js on the member
pages so regeneration keeps the nav working.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
The "Get Involved" dropdown (Become a member / Support MSOS) had dead href="#"
links and only duplicated the two top-right buttons (Become a member, Donate).
Removed it site-wide (desktop + mobile, en/si/mk) - 390 blocks across 195 pages,
including the privacy-policy header the generators slice from, so regeneration
stays clean. Nav is now Who We Are / What We Do / For Students / News + the two
pill buttons.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
- Update the residence-permit "sufficient means" figure to 507,43 EUR/month
(Slovenian basic minimum income from 1 April 2026, source gov.si) across the
guide, FAQ, budget note, sample parent statement and my-route tip; replaces
the old 484,88 everywhere.
- New standalone news announcement page /<lang>/news/proof-of-means-updated-2026/
(trilingual), published 1 August 2026, with a clickable gov.si source box and a
hero image (Pixabay, credited). news.js now supports announcement items
(slug + body) and shows them newest-first on the homepage and News hub; the
image doubles as the card thumbnail. Optimised 6.98MB to 255KB.
- Switch English EUR amounts to European format (comma decimal, dot thousands):
507,43 / 9.600 / 1.000 etc. Only euro-prefixed amounts are touched, so SI/MK
(which use a euro suffix) are unaffected. New generator eurofmt.js.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
Mobile fixes (article, guide, get-to-know, projects pages):
- Remove duplicate main.js include site-wide. footer.js emitted a
<script src=main.js> inside the footer block while pages also load one
before </body>, so DOMContentLoaded ran twice and every tap toggled the
mobile menu / article TOC twice (net no-op). Menu and TOC only worked on
the homepage. Now exactly one main.js per page, before </body>.
- Kill horizontal overflow: add overflow-x: clip to html/body (clips the
off-canvas mobile nav panel without breaking position: sticky, unlike
overflow-x: hidden).
- Reset align-items to stretch in the mobile .article-layout-container
rule; the desktop flex-start made .article-container size to max-content
width in a column flexbox and overflow the viewport.
Membership form hardening (Become a Member):
- Honeypot field + localStorage cooldown (30s gap, max 3/24h) + stronger
email regex; trilingual cooldown alert message.
- Apps Script (setup doc): per-email auto-reply dedupe + daily send cap;
applicant reply is a plain thank-you that never echoes submitted answers.
- Draft HTML welcome email (email-welcome-preview.html) for later use.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
New trilingual /<lang>/become-a-member/ conversion page: hero with real-photo collage, why-join benefits, animated MSOS-in-numbers, ways to participate, membership-in-real-life and projects showcase (real project photos), testimonials, who-can-join, an adaptive multi-step form (student + supporter flows, conditional fields, progress, personalised messages, validation, success screen), FAQ and final CTA. Site-wide 'Become a member' buttons now link here. Form posts to a Google Form once wired; metrics/testimonials are placeholders to confirm.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
Client-side paginator (9 per page) reusing the site's pagination styling; page numbers with dots for long lists, Previous/Next with disabled states, resets to page 1 on filter change and hides when a single page.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
New /<lang>/news/ hub aggregates real projects (title+image read from their pages), placeholder news announcements, and blog items, newest-first with type badges and a type filter. Homepage Latest news now shows the newest dated items as badged cards with a working See all to the hub; the News menu link points there too. Dates in news.js are placeholders to replace with real publish dates.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
Remove 'Mentorship Programme' and 'Open calls' from the menus, rename 'Announcements' to 'News and Announcements', and wire the Blog link. Add a trilingual /<lang>/blog/ page with a distinct look: featured strip, client-side topic filters, and a masonry card wall with colour-coded tags (placeholder posts for now).
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
Replace em/en dashes with commas (or 'to' for number ranges, keeping the euro sign) across the FAQ, home, timeline and project pages; hyphens in compound words are left intact. Increase .faq-hero top padding so the eyebrow/title clear the fixed 80px header.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
Replace the ad-hoc FAQ questions with the curated P1 + strong-P2 set from research/faq-questions-and-rating.md: 33 questions across 9 sections, priority-ordered, including the MSOS third-country questions and concrete facts (free bachelor+master, B2 only for specific programmes, no entrance exam except art/architecture/sport/dental-prosthetics, 30 Sept renewal, 8-day address registration, non-EU quotas).
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
New /<lang>/faq/ page (en/si/mk) with categorised accordion Q&A that link into the Student Welcome Guide, plus a contact/Viber block. Nav 'FAQs' links and 'See all FAQs' buttons across the site now point to it.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
Add the auto-scrolling partners marquee to all three home pages (en/si/mk) with the six official partner logos (Embassy of Slovenia in Skopje, NLB, CTK, DSMP, Kampus, Povezani), trimmed to their artwork so they size consistently.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
Flags: replace flag-icons CDN with local SVGs (images/flags/{gb,si,mk}.svg) referenced as CSS backgrounds, so no external dependency and no per-page path issues. Partners: replace the static home-page logo row with a seamless auto-scrolling, hover-pausing marquee (CSS-only, reduced-motion aware, edge fade).
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
Desktop dropdown and mobile modal now show circular country flags (flag-icons) with clean language names and an active-language highlight, driven by the page lang via main.js.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
Add legal name, real social links (FB/IG/LinkedIn/YouTube), clickable email, guide and section navigation, and 2026 copyright. All links depth-correct per page and translated per language.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
Adds role, faculty (typed), and budget fields; the configurator now navigates to a new per-language results page (my-route/) carrying the answers in the URL. The results page renders a branded, printable report: profile chips, tailored ordered steps, city/budget/role/level focus tips, key page links, a disclaimer, and a Save-as-PDF/print button (print CSS shows only the report). my-route.js also has a Google Form hook to collect the profile for demographics once configured.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
Adds a 5-card featured row (journey, deadlines, eVS apply, residence permit, accommodation) above the stages, and converts the six stage cards into native details/summary accordions (first open by default, chevron rotates). Links inside open into a compact grid. Cuts the empty white space and visual noise.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
Replaces the flat crowded quicklink wall with six numbered stage cards (Start here, Apply to study, Residence and healthcare, Move and settle in, Everyday student life, After your first year), each with an icon, a one-line description, and its topic links. New guide-cats/guide-cat styles; section retitled to Find your way through the guide.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
Adds a reusable {video} block (responsive 16:9 youtube-nocookie embed) rendered as a prominent orange callout with title and caption, placed right after the warning box on evs-application-guide so students see it first. Trilingual title/caption.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
Voting now locks the widget for the page view (buttons disabled, chosen one highlighted, thank-you shown); reload to vote again. Fixes the CSS bug where display:flex overrode the hidden attribute so buttons stayed clickable. On No, an optional comment box posts to a separate Comment field. Adds a guarded [hidden] rule and selected/disabled/comment styles.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
Every guide page and the landing now end with a help section: an Email us contact, a prominent Viber community join button, and a Was this page helpful Yes/No widget. guide-feedback.js records the vote in localStorage and on No invites emailing MSOS or asking in Viber; it exposes a sendVote hook for later central collection.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
student-budget gains an illustrative monthly budget table (per-category ranges, ~EUR455-850
total) tied to the EUR484.88 means minimum. academic-life gains a section on what student
status grants and how long the rights last (one programme per level, n+1+1 extensions).
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
choose-a-programme gains concrete info-day timing (mid-Feb Fri/Sat, visit 2-3), a
question checklist, and the aptitude-test faculty list + timing. admission-and-enrolment
gains the national three-round system, omejitev vpisa (end-April), basic/additional
criteria, and July-October enrolment timing.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
Adds the hard fact that self-funded foreign degree students cannot get a subsidised
Studentski dom place, the faculty-brokered non-subsidised route (Dijaski dom Vic), and
the free m2 room-brokerage contact (Studentska hisa SRCe, 080 98 67, svetovalnica.com/sobe).
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
Adds student e-bike pricing (EUR30 / EUR25 ISIC, 30-min free, NAZAJVSOLO coupon),
BicikeLJ/MBajk parity, LPP 2025/26 renewal and pre-sale dates, Potniski center address,
the Slovenija intercity option, and the Urbana+IJPP unlock note.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
Splits the health-insurance pathway into the Macedonia side (getting the bilingual
RM/SI 3 from the FZOM branch) and the Slovenia side (converting it into the Potrdilo
MedZZ certificate at ZZZS), and names the actual certificate issued.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
where-to-apply now includes the full portal appointment walkthrough (steps, Slovenian
labels, 120-minute confirmation) and an appointment-day warning. means/address gains a
sample parent support statement and the concrete EUR484.88 monthly figure.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
Rewrites the residence permit page from vague signposting into a full walkthrough:
per-document explanations, exact fees, EUR484.88 means rule, 8-day address
registration, 30 September renewal deadline, sub-90-day rule, and the confirmation
that permits border crossing. Corrects photo size to 33x45mm.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
Rewrites the ten application/admission pages to the deeper v3 English
master, trilingual: complete-student-journey (9-stage timeline),
choose-a-programme, bachelor-application, master-application,
application-deadlines (2026/2027 tables), evs-application-guide,
recognition-of-education, document-preparation, admission-and-enrolment,
tuition-and-scholarships. Adds hero placeholders, Sources sections, and
warning/macedonia/msos boxes. Tuition notes bilateral tuition-free
treatment; deadlines shown per university with verify-latest guidance.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
Rewrites the six living/arrival/benefits pages (student-accommodation,
prepare-to-move, arrival-checklist, administrative-basics, student-meals,
student-transport) to the deeper v3 English master, trilingual, with
hero placeholders and Sources sections. Transport states subsidy applies
regardless of distance (old 2 km rule explicitly retired); meals keep the
current €5.19; dorm eligibility distinction and scam/lease checklists added.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
Rewrites the six residence/health pages (visa-and-residence-explained,
student-residence-permit, where-to-apply-for-residence,
means-accommodation-address, rm-si-3-health-insurance,
healthcare-in-slovenia) to the deeper v3 English master, trilingual.
Adds backward-compatible generator support for per-page hero-image
placeholders and a "Sources and further information" section, plus
.guide-last-checked styling. Owner decisions applied (student work on
the study permit vs employment permit; sufficient means shown as
"check current"). SI/MK bodies are MSOS working translations pending
native proofread.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
Completes the 30-page guide: adds programme choice, recognition,
documents, admission, tuition, residence, health, accommodation,
arrival, admin basics, meals, transport, student work, academic
life, study cities, budget, wellbeing, renewal, and official
sources, each in EN/SI/MK. Landing quicklinks now list all 29
topics; adds guide-linklist styling and a links block renderer.
SI/MK bodies of dense administrative content still need a native
proofread before publishing.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
Complete the three remaining Macedonia stories with sourced photos, so
both country sections are now fully illustrated.
Articles (EN/SI/MK each), placeholders replaced with real images:
- A Table Full of Macedonia (shared table, tavče gravče, ajvar,
pastrmajlija).
- Music, Dance and the Moments That Bring Us Together (oro celebration,
tapan and zurla, kopachkata, an MSOS event).
- History You Can Still Walk Through (Stobi, Heraclea Lyncestis, Kokino,
Makedonium).
Each image is center-cropped to a uniform 3:2, downscaled, and given an
attribution caption with place, photographer where known, and source
link.
Captions:
- Replace bare one-word labels with a short descriptive phrase in all
three languages, so a caption reads "Kokino, a prehistoric megalithic
observatory" rather than just "Kokino". Applies across the food,
culture, and heritage stories.
- Support an author-only credit with no external link, used for the
photo from the MSOS archive.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
Complete the two country sections with the place, food, culture, and
heritage stories, so every hub card now leads to a full article instead
of a pending page.
Articles (EN/SI/MK each):
- Slovenia: Lake Bled Beyond the Famous View, A First Taste of Slovenian
Food, Slovenian Habits That May Surprise You, and Slovenia's Stories in
Stone and Tradition.
- Macedonia: Ohrid, More Than a Postcard, plus the earlier Skopje and
Ljubljana stories that were still untracked.
- Table, Music and Dance, and History articles for Macedonia are in place
and still use image placeholders until their photos are sourced.
Images:
- Real, sourced photos wired into every finished article, each with an
attribution caption (place, photographer where known, source link).
Images are center-cropped to a uniform 3:2 and downscaled; webp and
jfif sources converted to jpg.
- Each article's hero image is reused on its hub card.
- Welcome to Macedonia now opens with Macedonia Square in Skopje; the
Church of St. John at Kaneo photo moves to the Ohrid story.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
Launch the two country sections as a cultural bridge, following the
approved Phase A spec and reusing the Events & Projects structure.
Hubs (6 pages, EN/SI/MK each):
- get-to-know-slovenia and get-to-know-macedonia
- Section header + newsletter form, 6-category filter (Places & Nature,
Culture & Traditions, Food & Flavours, History & Heritage,
People & Identity), 6 launch cards, empty state, client-side pagination.
- Five cards per hub link to articles that arrive in later batches.
Articles (6 pages, EN/SI/MK each):
- Welcome to Slovenia and Welcome to Macedonia, full text with the
auto-generated table of contents and sticky mobile header.
- Real, sourced images with attribution captions (place, photographer,
source link). Wikimedia photos also link the CC BY-SA licence and note
that the image was cropped. Images center-cropped to a uniform 3:2 and
downscaled. Each article's hero image is reused on its hub card.
Site-wide:
- Wire the For Students menu links (desktop and mobile) to the new hubs on
every page and in the header templates; rename the menu label from
North Macedonia to Macedonia (formal name kept in body content).
- Placeholder styles for images and cards still awaiting a sourced photo.
- Add caption styling for the hero image and give the article table of
contents clear separation from the footer.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
Add the 2025 events batch to the Events & Projects section, each as a
full article page in all three languages following the established
template (auto-generated TOC, sticky mobile header, inline figures):
- Humanitarian sports tournament in Maribor (05 Apr 2025)
- Public gathering for the Kocani victims (21 Mar 2025)
- Paint & Wine at Sunset in Gorizia (08 Mar 2025, with aftermovie embed)
- Public gathering for Frosina Kulakova (08 Feb 2025)
- Watching handball together in Slovenia (25 Jan 2025)
Also:
- Add 33 event images to images/ (oversized JPGs downscaled to <=1600px).
- Add localized cards for the five events to the EN/SI/MK listing pages.
- Remove the two placeholder cards (Bill Walsh, PM mental models) and
delete the testproject article folders they linked to.
- Convert punctuation dashes in the new copy to commas or sentence
breaks for a more human tone; keep compound-word hyphens.
- Add docs handover brief for the future Get to know Slovenia and
North Macedonia sections.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
Add a Proxify-style category filter and real client-side pagination to
the Events & Projects listing across all three languages (EN/SI/MK).
- Filter: a pill nav (All / Events / Student Life / Projects / Webinars)
plus a contextual sub-chip row for Events (Sports / Cultural /
Entertainment / Educational). Buttons carry stable data-filter /
data-subfilter keys and cards carry data-category / data-subcategory,
so a single language-agnostic handler drives all three locales.
- Pagination: replaces the hardcoded dead 1..10 links with real
client-side paging (9 per page). Shows a single page today and grows
automatically as content is added, with windowed page numbers,
enabled/disabled Prev/Next, and smooth scroll-to-top. Integrates with
the filter (resets to page 1, repaginates, hides when no matches).
- Show a localized empty-state message when a filter has no results.
- Nudge the filter block up and add space below it for even spacing.
- Drop the duplicate News pill (News has its own top-nav section) and
retag the placeholder card from announcements to projects so it stays
reachable.
Verified with jsdom across EN/SI/MK: filtering, sub-filtering, empty
state, single/multi-page navigation, and filter/pagination interaction.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
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