skatebaseddesign-site

SKATEBASED DESIGN — static mirror

A static copy of www.skatebaseddesign.com (Squarespace site skatebaseddesign.squarespace.com), taken 2026-10-05 before the plan expires.

Folder	What it is
docs/	The published site. Same URL paths as Squarespace (/info is docs/info/index.html). GitHub Pages serves this folder.
originals/	Every image at the full resolution Squarespace stored (52 files; Squarespace caps uploads at 2500 px).
_raw/	The snapshot the site is built from: sitemap.xml, each page’s rendered HTML and its ?format=json content.
src/	mirror.js and mirror.css: small replacements for the Squarespace scripts the pages relied on.
build.py	Rebuilds docs/ from _raw/ and originals/. Run python3 build.py.

How it was made

1. Every page listed in /sitemap.xml (25 URLs, plus the homepage) was fetched twice: as rendered HTML and as ?format=json.
2. Every image referenced in the sitemap, the JSON or the HTML was downloaded at original size, without Squarespace’s ?format= resizing. The site serves copies that are at most 1500 px wide (the size Squarespace served); the untouched originals are in originals/.
3. Squarespace’s own markup and stylesheets were kept, so the layout, fonts and colours match. All of Squarespace’s runtime JavaScript was removed. The few behaviours it provided are rebuilt in src/mirror.js: the “you are loved” / “ARCHIVE ☆” wave marquees, the INFO accordion, the mobile menu, and the product image galleries.
4. Stylesheets, fonts (Archivo and Climate Crisis), the icon sprite and jQuery are saved in docs/assets/. No page loads anything from Squarespace.

The page content comes from the rendered HTML, not from ?format=json. Squarespace’s newer “Fluid Engine” pages leave mainContent empty in the JSON, so the JSON was kept as a record of the content (and the product data), and the HTML was used to build the pages.

Pages

All 26 pages were copied. The three in the navigation are ARCHIVE (/), SHOP (/shop) and INFO (/info). These pages are public but were not linked from the navigation, and they stay unlinked here: /archive (same as the homepage), /sophie-schmidt-map, /contract-clarified, /news-ribbon, /senate, /fashion, /fashion-designer-1 (empty on Squarespace too).

What could not be copied

Store and checkout

• The cart (/cart), checkout and payments. The cart link is still in the header markup but was hidden on Squarespace too; it leads to a 404 here.
• Add to cart, stock levels, variants and “Sold Out” logic. Product pages show the price and the “SOLD OUT” label as static text; the one SHOP item (bubble lighter keychain, €35.00) was sold out, and all 15 ARCHIVE items were €0.00 / out of stock.
• Orders, customers, inventory and the product catalogue as Squarespace data. Export these from the Squarespace dashboard (Commerce → Inventory → Export, and Orders → Download CSV) before the plan ends.

Squarespace features that only ran on Squarespace

• The site-wide fade-in animations (content now appears without animating).
• The product image hover-zoom, and the slide transitions in product galleries (images now switch instantly).
• The wave marquees are rebuilt from their saved settings. They look and move like the originals but are not pixel-identical.
• Cookie banner, Squarespace analytics, and the visitor error reporter.
• Any URL redirects, password-protected pages, drafts, disabled pages, and settings (SEO, social, domain, email) that are not visible on the public site. None of these show up in the sitemap, so they could not be found.
• Forms, newsletter sign-ups, comments, member areas and scheduling: the site had none, so nothing was lost here.

Embedded media: none. The site had no video, audio or PDF embeds; only images.

Things that still depend on outside services

These belong to the site’s own custom code, not to Squarespace, and keep working as long as those services do:

• /contract-clarified, /news-ribbon, /senate and /fashion call your Cloudflare Workers (*.elliottjschwartz.workers.dev). They worked from a local test server, so their CORS settings appear to allow other origins. If a Worker only allows skatebaseddesign.com, add the GitHub Pages address.
• /sophie-schmidt-map loads its data from a Google Sheet and its map from Leaflet (unpkg) and OpenStreetMap.
• Font Awesome (cdnjs) and Google Fonts are loaded by the custom code blocks; /news-ribbon uses picsum.photos placeholder images.

Rebuilding

python3 build.py

build.py needs only Python 3 and macOS sips (for resizing). Remote assets are cached in _raw/cache/, so rebuilding does not need the Squarespace site to be online once the cache exists.