improved header background colour and navbar icons

[nitinmohan18]

Pull Request

Summary

This PR focuses on highly-detailed visual polish and micro-interactions for the Navbar component. It refines icon shapes, sizes, and active states to create a cohesive, premium aesthetic. It also significantly improves the frosted glassmorphism effect when the navbar is in its scrolled state.

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Related Issue

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Type of Change

• Feature
• Bug Fix
• Documentation
• Refactor
• Performance Improvement (UI Polish)
• CI / Build
• Other

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What Changed?

• Active State Overhaul: Replaced the previous yellow/gold active icon styling with a crisp, pure white color and a minimalist, razor-thin white indicator line for a more premium look.
• Glassmorphism Scrolled Background: Replaced the flat, black-ish scrolled background (#091A40) with a vibrant, translucent royal blue (#0D33A6). Finely tuned the opacities for both Light Mode (70% blur) and Dark Mode (50% blur) to ensure perfect contrast and an airy glass effect.
• Icon Silhouettes & Shapes:
  • Swapped the Info icon for BookOpen (About section) to better represent the educational platform and remove the distracting circular boundary.
  • Swapped the MessageSquare icon for Mail (Contact section) so it has a distinct visual silhouette from the BookOpen icon next to it.
  • Reduced the size of the Contact icon slightly (to 19px) to perfectly balance its visual weight with the other 22px icons.
• Button Shaping: Converted the Theme Toggle buttons from perfectly round (rounded-full) to modern squircles (rounded-xl) to match the rest of the UI elements (like the Sign In button).
• Navigation Order: Swapped the positions of the "Contact" and "About" links for a better logical flow.
• Micro-interactions: Added a subtle scale bump (group-hover:scale-110) to inactive icons when hovered.

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Screenshots (UI Changes Only)

(Please attach screenshots demonstrating the new icon states, the updated Theme toggle, and the beautiful blue scrolled background)

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Testing

• Toggled between Light and Dark modes to ensure the new scrolled background opacities look great in both environments.
• Scrolled down the page to trigger the glassmorphism effect and verified readability.
• Hovered over navigation links to test the new scaling micro-interactions.
• Verified the active state cleanly highlights the current section in white without any distracting glow.

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Checklist

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• I have formatted the modified files (npx prettier --write <file>).
• npm run format:check passes.
• npm run lint passes.
• npm run typecheck passes.
• npm run build passes.
• I have updated documentation if required.
• I have tested my changes locally.
• This Pull Request focuses on a single feature or fix.

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Additional Notes

The updates were isolated entirely to components/navbar.tsx to refine the user's primary navigation experience.

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• PR: improved header background colour and navbar icons #60 - improved header background colour and navbar icons
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