Online Magazine Website Template
Demo brand: Out of Season · Travel magazine / editorial quarterly · 25 routes · Astro 7 + Tailwind 4
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About this online magazine website template
A complete editorial publication, not a blog theme: twenty-five built routes covering six long-form features, three hotel reviews, an eight-answer FAQ section, an about page for the masthead, and the legal routes a publication actually needs.
It is set as a printed quarterly on warm ivory stock — one terracotta ink, cocoa for a single dark rubric, Instrument Serif running from 122px display down to italic standfirsts, and Work Sans confined to 11px apparatus. The type is the loud channel and it is doing everything.
The signature move is the calendar. Because the subject of this magazine is when to travel, the year is fixed to the right edge as twelve ticks, and each section inks only the months it covers — changing rubric by rubric on the home page, holding for the whole read on an article. March and June through August never light, because a magazine that reports only on the off-season has nothing to say about July. One piece, The Last Copper Merchant, carries no season at all: the rail goes fully dark, and the reader is told by the drawing that this article is not an argument about when to go.
The 25 pages you get
- Home
/ - The issue: the year rail, the features, the reviews and the subscribe close.
- All articles
/blog/ - The full archive index — a wired content collection, so a new .mdx file appears here and in the sitemap.
- Six feature articles
/<article>/ - Hokkaido before the snow, the Faroes in November, Puglia after the season, the Atacama under storm light, a harbour town in the off months, notes from a wet road. Top-level URLs, as a magazine publishes them.
- Three hotel reviews
/<review>/ - Pensão Maré Alta, Sarnıç Konak, The Fenwick Rooms — a second content type with its own treatment, which is what separates a publication from a blog.
- Frequently asked
/faq/ - The index of eight reader questions.
- Eight answer pages
/faq/… - Each question is its own route — what "out of season" means, whether the weather is a problem, what a trip costs, how hotels are chosen, whether free stays are accepted. Eight pages that each answer one real search.
- About the magazine
/about/ - The masthead and the editorial position — the page that establishes why the reviews can be trusted.
- Contact
/contact/ - A working enquiry form plus editorial and general mailto: paths.
- Privacy
/privacy/ - A real legal route, written.
- 404
/404 - Designed in the same language, carrying the navigation.
What is in the build
- A fixed twelve-tick year rail that inks only the months each piece covers, changing section by section on the home page and holding for a whole article
- Two distinct content types — features and hotel reviews — with separate treatments, which is the structural difference between a magazine and a blog
- Eight individually routed FAQ answers, each targeting one real reader question
- Instrument Serif driven from 122px display to italic standfirsts, with Work Sans held to 11px apparatus only
- One warm underexposed grade applied across all twenty-three photographs, so a mixed image set reads as one commission
- A working contact form and an editorial masthead page
- Vitest and Playwright suites included in the repository
The design decision
Every template in this catalog is loud in exactly one channel and deliberately quiet in the other three. That single rule is what stops 62 different worlds reading as one design system in different paint.
- The world
- A printed quarterly on warm ivory stock about visiting remarkable places at the wrong time of year. One ink of terracotta, cocoa for the single dark rubric, Instrument Serif from 122px display down to italic standfirsts and Work Sans confined to 11px apparatus.
- The mechanic
- "The Year Runs Down the Margin": the subject of this magazine is a calendar, so the year is fixed to the right edge as twelve ticks and each section inks the months it covers — the set changing rubric by rubric on the home page and holding for the whole read on an article. March and June through August never light, because a magazine that only reports out of season has nothing to say about July.
- Loud channel
- Display type
- Imagery. One warm underexposed grade
- Type & palette
- Instrument Serif · Work Sans
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#f2ece1#1a1410#b8572f - The control case
- The Last Copper Merchant carries no season at all; it is the one piece where the rail goes fully dark, and the reader is told by the drawing that the article is not an argument about when to go.
Who it is for
Built for travel magazines, editorial quarterlies, independent publications and content-led brands that publish long-form with real photography. It suits a publisher who wants a page that reads like paper. If you want a personal writing site rather than a masthead, the blog-first build is smaller and quicker to fill.
Under the hood
- Astro 7 · static output, zero client framework
- Tailwind 4 · one @theme block holds the palette
- MDX content collections for the blog
- GSAP + Lenis for the scroll work, reduced-motion aware
- Self-hosted woff2 — no Google Fonts request
- Sitemap, canonicals and per-route meta wired
- Vitest + Playwright suites in the repository
- Zero third-party requests · strict CSP-ready
How to get started
- 01 Accept the repository invite and clone it.
- 02 Run
npm install, thennpm run dev. - 03 Replace the content in
src/data/with your own — that is where the brand, the copy and every list live. - 04 Swap the images in
public/images/and the palette in the@themeblock. - 05 Run
npm run buildand deploydist/anywhere static.
Questions
Do I have to keep the calendar rail?
It is the signature, and removing it leaves you with a good but ordinary editorial theme. That said, it is driven by a per-article season field — if a piece has no season the rail stays dark, which is exactly what one article in the demo does. So you can run the whole magazine with it dark if the calendar is not your subject.
How do I add an article?
Write an .mdx file with front-matter, including which months it covers. It appears in the archive, in the sitemap, and the year rail inks itself from the months you named. No layout edit.
Are the twenty-three photographs licensed for my use?
The images in the demo are placeholders for your own photography — a magazine’s pictures are the product, and they should be yours. The grading treatment is in the build, so your images inherit the same look.
What exactly do I get for $49?
Access to a private GitHub repository holding the complete Astro source of this template — every route you see in the preview, the content model, the images and the tests. Updates arrive in that same repository.
How many sites can I build with one licence?
As many as you like, for yourself or for clients. The licence is per buyer, not per project. The one thing you may not do is resell or redistribute the source as a template, theme or starter kit.
Do I need to know Astro?
It helps, but the common case is editing content and colour. Content lives in typed objects under src/data, colour lives in one @theme block, and npm run dev shows the result. Deploying is a static folder — Cloudflare Pages, Netlify and Vercel all take it as-is.
Is anything loaded from a third party?
No. Fonts are self-hosted woff2, there is no analytics, no tag manager, no CDN script and no external CSS. The build ships static HTML under a strict Content-Security-Policy.
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