Description
- Margin: A Personal Blog Website Template
- Margin is a clean, modern blog template built around a simple idea: a writer’s notebook, complete with notes in the margins. Calm typography, generous white space and a month-by-month journal make reading feel unhurried and personal. It suits passionate bloggers who care about their words and want readers to stay a while.
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Who it’s for
- Personal bloggers and essayists
- Designers, writers and creatives sharing ideas and reflections
- Newsletter writers who want a home for their archive
- Anyone starting a thoughtful personal blog
Features
- Margin notes (sidenotes) beside the text, which open inline on mobile
- Reader settings: choose serif or sans typeface, text size, line width, and show or hide margin notes
- Reader settings are remembered between visits
- Circular reading progress indicator on posts
- Journal timeline grouped by month, with the current month highlighted while scrolling
- Short notes mixed into the journal between longer posts
- Series pages with progress bars and upcoming titles
- “Part of a series” navigation inside posts
- All-writing page with topic filters, post counts and live search
- Key takeaways box, pull quotes and image captions in posts
- Copy-link sharing
- Newsletter sign-up and contact form with confirmation messages
- FAQ section on the About page
- Responsive layout with a mobile menu
Pages included
- Journal (Home): intro headline with inline photos, “currently writing” status, month-by-month journal of posts and short notes, series cards, newsletter sign-up
- Writing: page title, topic filters, search, full list of posts with date, topic, series and reading time
- Series: each series with description, progress bar, numbered published posts and upcoming titles
- Post: topic, series and reading time, title and standfirst, author and date, reader settings, cover image, article with margin notes, pull quote, image, numbered list, key takeaways, tags, series navigation, author bio, next post
- About: portrait, bio, short timeline, FAQ, contact form