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Community library website template
Wattlebrook Library & Commons, built by Lodestar - our creative, property and civic team
Answers hours, storytime and card signup questions before a parent has to phone the front desk.
US$249
One payment. One licence covers one live production website. You download the source and own it.
What it is
A finished community library site, not a blank canvas
Answers hours, storytime and card signup questions before a parent has to phone the front desk. It is a working website you can open, scroll and click before you decide - the preview runs the real build, not a picture of one.
- Pages
- 4 pages
- Words you can change
- 238 editable fields
- Licence
- One live site, yours to keep
The 4 pages it ships with:
- Home
/ - Join
/join - Programs
/programs - Your library
/your-library
The home page runs in this order, and the order is a setting you can change: hero, tasks, week, programs, rooms, picks, join, visit.
What you get
The whole source, in a zip
Not a hosted account you rent. The download contains the complete Next.js source, and you can host it anywhere that serves static files.
app/,components/,lib/- every page and component, unminifiedpublic/- every image and asset used in the buildcontent/content.json- all 238 strings in one file, so changing the words never means touching a componentBRAND.mdandbrand-pairs.json- the type and colour system, written downdemo-manifest.json- every invented name, price and review in the demo, listed, so you know exactly what must be replaced with your own before you publish
Built by Lodestar
Creative, property and civic
Portfolio work for studios and estates, where the job is to present a small body of work with enough confidence that the enquiry arrives already qualified.
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Questions
Before you buy
Do I actually own it?
Yes. You pay once, you download the source, and there is no subscription attached to it. One licence covers one live production website; if you need it on more than one site, the preview has 2 and 3 licence options.
Can I change the words and the colours?
All 238 strings live in content/content.json, so the copy is one file. The type and colour system is written down in BRAND.md and brand-pairs.json, and you can try the alternates in the preview before you pay.
The demo has a business name and prices in it. Are they real?
No, and that is deliberate. Wattlebrook Library & Commons is an invented business so the build can be shown finished rather than half empty. Every invented name, price and review is listed in demo-manifest.json in your download, so nothing fictional reaches your live site by accident.
Where do I host it?
Anywhere that serves a static site. It is a standard Next.js project, so it deploys to Cloudflare Pages, Vercel, Netlify or your own server without changes.
What if I want it changed for me?
That is the other lane. A custom build starts from your business rather than a template - tell us what you need.
Open it before you pay
The preview runs the real community library build - scroll it, click it, switch the typeface and the colourway, then decide.