01 • Design reset
Less black, more archive paper.
Instead of a dark wall with gold outline buttons, the site moves to a museum-paper palette with strong contrast, calmer reading flow, and better room for product storytelling.
Archive-Based Selling • Formalized Collector Front Door
Unlock the Archive.
Capps Attic Archive is a living collectible ecosystem built around sports memorabilia, print culture, comics, vinyl, sheet music, and archive-driven releases with physical history at the center.
The site is shifting away from the darker, heavier presentation and into a warmer archival system that feels preserved, credible, and easier to browse. The page architecture is built in a sandwich-style PHP layout so the header and footer remain consistent as the site grows.
Weekly release cadence
Collector-facing QR landing page
Formalized header and footer includes
Mirror-ready PHP structure
What changes from the current gateway page.
The new presentation keeps the formal tone but removes some of the visual heaviness. The gold stays as an accent, not the dominant weight. The typography stays authoritative while becoming easier to read and more usable across pages.
02 • Structural reset
PHP sandwich architecture.
Each content page sits between header.php and footer.php, which mirrors the structure you are already using on the Ancestor Media System side.
03 • Editorial reset
Dispatch instead of generic newsletter.
The collector mailing list should feel like a release bulletin. That language aligns with the insert card, QR page, and long-term collectible ecosystem.
Mirror the working AMS file logic.
Use the same habit of separated concerns: assets in folders, content pages at root, and reusable includes for navigation, header, footer, and data-driven sections.
- css/ for shared styling
- images/ for logos, inserts, and release graphics
- header.php and footer.php as reusable shell files
- config.php for navigation, liaisons, and reusable site variables
- Root-level pages such as archive-access.php, liaisons.php, and dispatch.php