May was a foundation month. Before patients and providers can trust ElderberryMD with their health information, the site needs to earn that trust through its content, its structure, and its design. Here is everything that shipped.
Trust & Privacy pages
The cornerstone work of the month was a complete trust documentation layer. ElderberryMD handles protected health information on behalf of patients and their care teams. Visitors deserve a clear, jargon-free explanation of exactly how that information is treated.
- Trust overview — a hub page linking every trust commitment in one place.
- No patient advertising — a formal commitment that patient health data is never used for ad targeting.
- Consent and control — step-by-step explanation of what is collected, why, and how to request deletion.
- HIPAA Business Associate Agreement — plain-language explanation of how the BAA protects patients when working with ElderberryMD.
- Zero third-party trackers — an attestation page with scan results showing no tracking pixels or advertising scripts run on the site.
- Your data rights — HIPAA access rights explained, with a clear path to submitting a data request.
Every page is built without third-party comment systems, without advertising trackers, and without calling home to external analytics platforms. A CI scanner checks every deploy.
Design system
Consistent brand presentation requires a shared foundation. A design token file (assets/css/tokens.css) now defines the complete color palette, spacing scale, and type scale for the site. Every page imports these tokens, so a single change propagates everywhere.
Key additions: the brand purple (#9B7BA6), a full spacing scale from 4px to 64px, focus-visible keyboard navigation rings, and a styleguide page that documents every component in the system.
Navigation overhaul
The site navigation was unified across all pages — a recurring source of drift that caused different pages to show different menu items. Every page now renders the same header and footer from a consistent template. The mobile hamburger menu was also fixed to work correctly across all page contexts.
Contact scrub
Raw email addresses and phone numbers were removed from all public-facing pages. ElderberryMD routes all contact through a structured form — this keeps the communication channel clean and prevents spam harvesting.
This blog and changelog
The page you are reading right now. The blog scaffold gives ElderberryMD a credible place to document what ships, when it ships, and why. The RSS feed at /feed.xml lets anyone subscribe without handing over an email address.
What is next
June work focuses on SEO foundation (structured data, canonical URLs, sitemap completeness) and the first wave of actual content posts in M-10b. The trust layer is in place; now the site needs enough substance to rank for the searches that matter to patients and providers.