Initial ASP.NET Core MVC site scaffold, views, assets, and CI/CD workflows

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Motivation

• Provide a first-pass implementation of the public-facing ASP.NET Core MVC site for Manpreet Singh with basic pages, content models, and accessible layout.
• Add a simple design system and client-side behavior for theme toggling and reveal animations to establish the UI baseline.
• Enable CI builds and a tag-based release artifact pipeline so the project can be automatically built and published.

Description

• Add project scaffolding including manpreetsingh.pro.csproj, Program.cs, HomeController, model classes (ModelItem, WritingItem, ToolItem, MediaItem), and viewmodels to back the pages.
• Implement Razor views and shared partials (_Layout, _Header, _Footer, _Hero, previews, page views) under Views/ and set up _ViewImports.cshtml and _ViewStart.cshtml.
• Add static assets under wwwroot/ including css/site.css, js/site.js, and several placeholder SVG images and a logo; include a README.md that documents local run instructions and the CI/CD behavior.
• Add repository housekeeping files: .gitignore and GitHub Actions workflows ci.yml (push/PR to main) and release.yml (tagged v* releases) to restore, build, test (if present), publish, and upload artifacts.

Testing

• CI is configured to run dotnet restore manpreetsingh.pro.csproj and dotnet build manpreetsingh.pro.csproj on pushes and PRs to main via the added ci workflow.
• Test discovery in the ci workflow looks for *.Tests.csproj files and will run dotnet test for any discovered test projects, but no test projects were found so the test execution step is skipped in this change.
• The release workflow is configured to build and dotnet publish the web project and upload the artifacts/publish directory as an artifact for tagged releases.

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