Starting point
A publication site where every issue gets its own page
This is a publication, not a blog with a date on it. The website builder gives an editor six sample issues whose standfirst and byline are already structured fields, and an archive that is a page rather than an infinite scroll.
Shown in the Sumi design style — one of 15 you can switch between; your business content carries over.
A standfirst is a field, not a first paragraph in bold
The issues collection defines eight fields — headline, number, published date, standfirst, byline, beat, read time and body — and each of the six samples resolves to its own URL. That is the difference between a publication and a text box: a standfirst you can restyle everywhere at once, and a byline the site knows is a person. The home page leads with the latest, the archive lists the rest, and the masthead sits on its own page.
What the sample site comes with
An issues collection with eight defined fields and six sample issues, each with its own page, a lead layout on the home page, an archive listing, a masthead page, a letters page with a four-question FAQ, and an editorial desk in the back office.
Anything on that list that takes something from a visitor or reads from a live schedule — a form, a booking, a coupon code, a subscribe box, a class timetable, a listing fed by a collection — goes online with Storefront Pro. Storefront publishes the rest of the page exactly as you built it; where this template gives one of those a page of its own, that page is the one that waits for the upgrade.
What the site covers
- Issues
- Archive
- Masthead
4 pages included
- Home
- Archive
- About
- Letters
What is in scope, and what stays in your own systems
No paid subscriptions, no paywall, no member accounts, no email delivery of issues. It publishes; it does not bill, and comments are not part of this starting point.
Every count and price on this page was read out of the template itself rather than written by hand, which is why the numbers match the site you actually get.
What you get when you publish it
- Your own domain, hosting and HTTPS on the published site — not a subdomain of ours.
- Card payments run through your own Stripe account. Naratake takes 0% commission on the sale; only Stripe’s own card fee applies.
- Storefront Pro downloads the whole project as a standard Next.js app, so the site can be self-hosted with Naratake switched off.
- Building and previewing is free with no card. Storefront is $49 a month or $468 a year; Storefront Pro — which is where ordering and bookings go live — is $79 a month or $758 a year. The first payment is refundable in full within 7 days.
Questions people actually ask
The archive lists six issues, but the sample ships no blog posts. Where do the issues live?
They are entries in an Issues content type, not posts. Each one holds a headline, the issue number readers cite, the date it was sent, a standfirst, a byline, a beat chosen from Pricing, Dispatch, Hiring and The money, a length line, and the issue itself as rich text. Six ship, numbered 209 to 214 and dated a week apart. The home page runs the newest four in a lead layout; the Archive page lists every one, ordered by the sent-on date.