What you get
- One HTML file with fonts and photos embedded, or a Next.js, React, Vue or Astro port
- Home, stories, article pages, topics with a print archive and a designed 404
- Shop with issue covers and framed prints, bag, demo checkout and subscription plans
- About, contact, newsletter, FAQ, delivery and legal pages
- A validator for links, structure, offline safety and leftover sample names
Good for
- Independent magazines, quarterlies and newsletters
- Studio or maker journals with a small shop
- Travel, city guide and food brands that publish stories
Not for
- News sites that publish many times a day
- Blogs that need a content management system from the start
- Dark, loud or heavily animated brand identities
How to use it
In Claude or ChatGPT
Use the PopNow skill "Magazine Website Template" (magazine-website) for this: Build a site for Tidelines, a twice-yearly print journal about small harbour towns, with five stories, a shop for back issues and a yearly subscription.
In a coding agent
/popnow-magazine-website Build a site for Tidelines, a twice-yearly print journal about small harbour towns, with five stories, a shop for back issues and a yearly subscription.
Then try
Plan the story photos in a cool northern light instead, and quote me before generating.
Move the site into my Astro project and keep the articles as Markdown.
What to have ready
- Publication name, audience and around seven topics
- At least three stories with titles, summaries and text
- Products, plans and delivery rates if you sell anything
- Your photos, or a PopNow API key to generate them
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Questions
Can I run it without a backend?
Yes. The default output is a single HTML file. Search, filters, saved stories and the bag work in the browser; checkout, subscriptions and forms show clear demo confirmations until you connect real services.
What does PopNow generate here?
Story photographs, cover still lifes and stand-in masthead portraits, all in one art direction. Covers and prints are assembled in HTML, so images never need text. Each run is quoted first and starts only after you agree.
Does it suit a business that is not a magazine?
Often. Stories can become journal entries, guides or origin reports, topics become techniques, neighbourhoods or regions, and the subscription becomes a membership or delivery plan.
What happens to the sample magazine content?
It is replaced. The validator fails if any sample name, person, stockist, place or story title is still in the page, and anything the skill had to invent is listed for you.