Session log — FCP Part 1 Refresher Course landing page on medistage

26 May 2026 · Hasmukh with Claude · auto-published from the local journal entry. A polished narrative version can be requested in any future Claude session.

Summary

Following the earlier session that brought the "Register Now" button back on the medistage homepage banner, Hasmukh asked for a proper landing page behind that button. Over the course of this session we built a new page at /fcp-part-1-refresher-2026, repointed the homepage banner button to it, added the official UCT Department of Medicine banner image, attached the two registration PDFs as forced downloads, refined the copy, and renamed the call to action. The course fee on the page now reads R3,500.00 (Hasmukh updated it directly during the session).

Decisions

New landing page URL: /fcp-part-1-refresher-2026. Chosen over the more generic /fcp-refresher slug already referenced on the homepage offerings card, so the page is specific to this cohort and does not lock us into one slug for all future refresher courses.
Page content scope: course information plus a clearly marked placeholder register button. No registration form or external form link on the page yet, per Hasmukh's instruction.
Banner image at the top of the page: the official UCT Department of Medicine FCP Part 1 Refresher Course 2026 artwork supplied by Hasmukh, full width with rounded corners to match the visual language of the rest of the site.
PDF downloads: the application form and the terms and conditions are served from /user-content/uploads/ with clean, dash-cased filenames. Nginx forces them to download rather than render in the browser by setting Content-Disposition: attachment for those two exact paths only, so unrelated PDFs on the site are not affected.
Cache busting: PDF links on the page carry a ?v=1 query string so any browser that cached the original inline-render response picks up the new download header on next click.
Register button copy: from "Register now (link pending)" to "Register Now by downloading forms", reflecting that downloading and returning the application form is the actual registration mechanism for now.

Changes made

Built the new landing page row in the medistage database (pm_content id 16, slug fcp-part-1-refresher-2026, status live) with sections for: hero with dates, course overview, what is included, who it is for, the green Course Fee block with the Register button, and a Forms to download block.
Repointed the "Register Now" button on the medistage homepage banner from the in-page anchor #register-form to /fcp-part-1-refresher-2026. Backed up the homepage content row to /root/medistage-backups/home-content-20260526-pre-link-button.html first.
Uploaded the UCT banner artwork to /var/www/medistage/user-content/uploads/fcp-part-1-refresher-2026-banner.png and inserted it as the first section on the landing page. Backed up the landing page content first to /root/medistage-backups/fcp-page-20260526-pre-banner.html.
Uploaded the application form PDF and the terms and conditions PDF to the uploads folder with the filenames fcp-2026-part-1-application-form.pdf and fcp-2026-part-1-refresher-terms-and-conditions.pdf. Set ownership to the medistage system user and permissions to 644.
Added a "Forms to download" section to the landing page with two outlined buttons linking to the PDFs. Backed up the landing page content first to /root/medistage-backups/fcp-page-20260526-pre-downloads.html.
Added a targeted location block to the medistage nginx config that matches only those two PDFs and sets Content-Disposition: attachment plus the standard security headers. Tested with nginx -t, reloaded nginx, and confirmed both files now return content-disposition: attachment. Backed up the original nginx site config to /root/medistage-backups/medistage-nginx-20260526.conf.
Appended ?v=1 to both PDF links on the landing page after Hasmukh reported the application form was still opening inline in his browser from cache.
Appended the sentence "Submission address and contact information is detailed in the application form." after the existing line that asks doctors to download, complete and return the forms.
Changed the green Course Fee block button text from "Register now (link pending)" to "Register Now by downloading forms".

Follow-ups

The button at /fcp-part-1-refresher-2026 is still a placeholder anchor (href="#") with the new "Register Now by downloading forms" label. If we later add a real registration URL (Google Form, payment link, or similar), wire it in and remove the data-placeholder="true" marker on the anchor.
The homepage "Find Out More & Enrol" card in the offerings grid still links to /fcp-refresher, which 404s. Consider either repointing that card to /fcp-part-1-refresher-2026 as well, or creating a separate page for the wider FCP Refresher Course offering.
The hero eyebrow on the homepage still reads "Next free session: Register now". The FCP Refresher is a paid course, so revisit the eyebrow copy now that this specific session is confirmed.
When the actual registration mechanism is in place, the targeted nginx force-download location block can stay as is — it only matches the two existing FCP PDFs. New PDFs uploaded under different filenames will behave normally.