finished the upgrade to filament 4. completely revamped the frontend with codex, now it looks great!

config/app.php

@@ -15,7 +15,7 @@ return [
     |
     */
 
-    'name' => env('APP_NAME', 'Laravel'),
+    'name' => env('APP_NAME', 'AI Stylegallery'),
 
     /*
     |--------------------------------------------------------------------------

config/settings.php

@@ -0,0 +1,94 @@
+<?php
+
+return [
+
+    /*
+     * Each settings class used in your application must be registered, you can
+     * put them (manually) here.
+     */
+    'settings' => [
+
+    ],
+
+    /*
+     * The path where the settings classes will be created.
+     */
+    'setting_class_path' => app_path('Settings'),
+
+    /*
+     * In these directories settings migrations will be stored and ran when migrating. A settings
+     * migration created via the make:settings-migration command will be stored in the first path or
+     * a custom defined path when running the command.
+     */
+    'migrations_paths' => [
+        database_path('settings'),
+    ],
+
+    /*
+     * When no repository was set for a settings class the following repository
+     * will be used for loading and saving settings.
+     */
+    'default_repository' => 'database',
+
+    /*
+     * Settings will be stored and loaded from these repositories.
+     */
+    'repositories' => [
+        'database' => [
+            'type' => Spatie\LaravelSettings\SettingsRepositories\DatabaseSettingsRepository::class,
+            'model' => null,
+            'table' => null,
+            'connection' => null,
+        ],
+        'redis' => [
+            'type' => Spatie\LaravelSettings\SettingsRepositories\RedisSettingsRepository::class,
+            'connection' => null,
+            'prefix' => null,
+        ],
+    ],
+
+    /*
+     * The encoder and decoder will determine how settings are stored and
+     * retrieved in the database. By default, `json_encode` and `json_decode`
+     * are used.
+     */
+    'encoder' => null,
+    'decoder' => null,
+
+    /*
+     * The contents of settings classes can be cached through your application,
+     * settings will be stored within a provided Laravel store and can have an
+     * additional prefix.
+     */
+    'cache' => [
+        'enabled' => env('SETTINGS_CACHE_ENABLED', false),
+        'store' => null,
+        'prefix' => null,
+        'ttl' => null,
+    ],
+
+    /*
+     * These global casts will be automatically used whenever a property within
+     * your settings class isn't a default PHP type.
+     */
+    'global_casts' => [
+        DateTimeInterface::class => Spatie\LaravelSettings\SettingsCasts\DateTimeInterfaceCast::class,
+        DateTimeZone::class => Spatie\LaravelSettings\SettingsCasts\DateTimeZoneCast::class,
+        //        Spatie\DataTransferObject\DataTransferObject::class => Spatie\LaravelSettings\SettingsCasts\DtoCast::class,
+        Spatie\LaravelData\Data::class => Spatie\LaravelSettings\SettingsCasts\DataCast::class,
+    ],
+
+    /*
+     * The package will look for settings in these paths and automatically
+     * register them.
+     */
+    'auto_discover_settings' => [
+        app_path('Settings'),
+    ],
+
+    /*
+     * Automatically discovered settings classes can be cached, so they don't
+     * need to be searched each time the application boots up.
+     */
+    'discovered_settings_cache_path' => base_path('bootstrap/cache'),
+];