* {
  box-sizing: border-box;
  margin: 0;
  padding: 0;
}

body {
  font-family: -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;
  background-color: #ffffff;
  color: #000000;
  padding: 20px;
  font-size: 14px;
  line-height: 1.4;
}

a {
  color: #000000;
  text-decoration: none;
}

a:hover {
  text-decoration: underline;
}

.top-nav {
  display: grid;
  grid-template-columns: 2fr 1fr 2fr 1fr; /* Retains asymmetric navigation alignment */
  align-items: start;
  margin-bottom: 25px;
}

.nav-item {
  font-weight: 500;
}

.text-right {
  text-align: right;
}

.main-container {
  display: grid;
  grid-template-columns: 2fr 4fr; 
  gap: 20px;
}

.featured-image-box {
  grid-column: 1 / 2;
}

.featured-image {
  width: 100%;
  max-width: 450px;
  height: auto;
  display: block;
}

.caption {
  font-size: 10px;
  color: #666666;
  margin-top: 8px;
}

.links-section {
  grid-column: 1 / -1;
  display: grid;
  grid-template-columns: 1fr 1fr 1fr; 
  margin-top: 100px; 
  gap: 20px;
}

.gallery-masonry {
  grid-column: 1 / -1;
  column-count: 3;          /* Spreads images into 3 fluid vertical columns */
  column-gap: 20px;         /* Spacing between image columns */
  margin-top: 100px;
}

.links-column h3 {
  font-size: 14px;
  font-weight: bold;
  margin-bottom: 15px;
}

.links-column p {
  font-size: 14px;
  line-height: 1.45;
}

.offset-column {
  margin-top: 36px; 
}

.gallery-thumb {
  width: 100%;
  height: auto;
  display: block;           /* Completely kills the baseline typographic white gap */
}

.gallery-row {
  display: inline-block;    /* Essential: Prevents images from splitting across columns */
  width: 100%;              /* Forces block to fill its column track horizontal size */
  margin-bottom: 20px;      /* Controls the fluid vertical gap beneath each image */
}

@media (max-width: 768px) {
  
  body {
    padding: 15px; /* Slight padding reduction to preserve precious screen width */
  }

  /* Stack navigation items in an organized grid pair on small displays */
  .top-nav {
    grid-template-columns: 1fr 1fr;
    row-gap: 12px;
    margin-bottom: 35px;
  }
  
  .text-right {
    text-align: left; /* Pulls links aligned left on mobile so text flows easily */
  }

  /* Forces main container content (the top photo layout block) to stack vertically */
  .main-container {
    grid-template-columns: 1fr;
    gap: 0;
  }

  .featured-image {
    max-width: 100%; /* Allows your header photo to fill mobile screens cleanly */
  }

  /* Stacks text paragraphs (About page / links page layout) */
  .links-section {
    grid-template-columns: 1fr;
    margin-top: 50px; /* Reduces excessive whitespace scrolling on phones */
    gap: 30px;        /* Increases room between separate copy block stacks */
  }

  /* Removes the desktop offset gaps so mobile sentences align neatly flush */
  .offset-column {
    margin-top: 0; 
  }

  /* Adjusts the design showcase gallery into 2 fluid tracks for mobile viewing */
  .gallery-masonry {
    column-count: 2;   
    column-gap: 15px;
    margin-top: 50px;
  }

  .gallery-row {
    margin-bottom: 15px; /* Tighter image track gaps suited for scrolling views */
  }
}

/* Optional further reduction targeting very thin phone displays (under 480px) */
@media (max-width: 480px) {
  .gallery-masonry {
    column-count: 1; /* Drops to a single clean portrait presentation view */
  }
}