Behind the scenes
Sarajevo — Colophon
How this site is made — words, pictures, type, tech.
A small editorial bench, one person on the byline, public source and public licences underneath.
- Editor & author
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Nedim Hadzimahmutovic — one person on one byline. Every source credited, every photograph attributed, every fact checked against the original.
- Display type
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Fraunces — variable serif by Phaedra Charles & Undercase Type. Optical sizing 9 → 144, weights 300–700. Used for headlines, ledes, quotable copy.
- Body type
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Inter — humanist sans by Rasmus Andersson. Weights 400, 500, 600. Used for body copy, microcopy, kickers, navigation.
- Print companion
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The PDF booklets are set in Pagella (serif) and Heros (sans) — close cousins of Fraunces / Inter, chosen so the print companion reads with the same voice as the website.
- Palette
- Ink #0E0E14 Paper #FDFAF2 Cream #F0EADC Copper #AD5320 Teal #1B5757 Ochre #C89C5A
- Photographs
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Real photographs from Wikimedia Commons, Unsplash, Flickr Creative Commons, Pixabay, or venue-supplied “Used with permission” sets. Every image carries a verifiable licence and a named photographer. No stock photo is ever presented as a venue it does not depict.
- Illustrations
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Original SVG illustrations on the postcards page and in the postcards PDF only. Each carries
<title>/<desc>/<metadata>blocks asserting © ExploreSarajevo.com. - Tech
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Jekyll static site generator. Sass with a hand-written design system in
_sass/. Vanilla JavaScript — no framework, no bundler. Leaflet + OpenStreetMap tiles for the maps. Installable as a PWA via/manifest.jsonand a small service worker at/sw.js. - PDF booklets
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Eight downloadable PDFs — main booklet, postcards, destinations, hidden gems, stories, guides, about, plus one per pocket guide. Edited and laid out by Nedim. Available on
/downloads/. - Hosting
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Static files served from a CDN. No tracker. No cookie wall. No popup. No third-party JavaScript except Leaflet (loaded only on map pages, from CDN) and Instagram’s embed script (loaded only on pages with an Instagram embed).
- Source
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Open. Corrections welcome at h.nedim@gmail.com with a working subject line.
- SEO / GEO
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Semantic HTML, structured JSON-LD for
WebSite,Person,TouristAttraction, andArticle. Search and generative-engine crawlers allowed in/robots.txt./llms.txtpublished for generative engines. - Edition
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2026 · Series I. The site began in 2025 and is maintained continuously. Last build: 15 October 2026.
- Editorial methodology
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Every factual claim is checked against primary sources: academic dissertations, peer-reviewed journal articles, census records, and operator websites (zicara.ba, zfbh.ba, sarajevo-airport.ba). When the site paraphrases or quotes from another writer’s work, the writer is named and the original source is linked. A “Sources” block appears at the bottom of any page that draws materially on outside reporting.
- Corrections
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Spotted an error? Email h.nedim@gmail.com with the page URL and what looks wrong. Corrections are made within 48 hours and noted in the page’s update timestamp. The site does not silently edit published claims — when a fact changes, the correction is visible.
- Update cadence
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Venue pages (hours, prices, seasonal info) are verified every six months. Historical and architectural content is reviewed every twelve months. Prices in BAM are re-checked on every edit. A page’s
last_updateddate reflects the most recent verification, not a cosmetic refresh. - Photography policy
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Only photographs with a verifiable licence are published: CC-licensed from Wikimedia Commons, Unsplash, Flickr CC, Pixabay, or museum public-domain releases. Venue-supplied photographs are used only with written permission, documented internally. Every photograph is credited with the photographer’s name, source, and licence. No uncredited image appears on the site.
- Who writes this
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Nedim Hadzimahmutovic, editor and sole author. Lives in Sarajevo. Lived here for about twenty years, left for five, came back in late 2025 with his wife and son. Correspondence: h.nedim@gmail.com.