Author: the hotel theme with a host behind it
Author is a template for independent hotels, inns and guesthouses that are shaped by the people who run them rather than by a chain.
A white page, a strict grid and large, quiet photographs keep every page about the stay: the rooms, the table, the place around it and the host who welcomes you.
Why Author
- Rooms with their size, beds, view, price and amenities shown as icons
- Seasonal offers with their dates, nights, price and what each one includes
- A restaurant page with the kitchen, sample menus, opening hours and a table reservation form
- Surroundings with distance, duration, season and what the house packs for each outing
- Events with dates, times and prices, from long summer tables to winter dinners
- A booking enquiry form ready for your own booking engine, practical info with an FAQ, and gift vouchers with an order form
- The house: the story, the host and the team, plus contact details and directions
- A floating drawer menu with the island’s local time, view transitions between pages and Lenis smooth scroll
- SEO-ready with Astro SEO and Sitemap
Layout & Structure
A twelve column grid with a four column rail for section titles and facts, one thin line running down its edge, and full-bleed photo grounds for the hero and footer.
Rooms, offers, surroundings, events and legal pages are Markdown collections, and every page is built from section components you can rearrange.
Colour, your way
Four colour tokens in one file and no accent: the photographs supply the rest.
Change a token and the whole site follows.
Author is also available with Sanity CMS (Sanity Studio + monorepo) or EmDash CMS (built-in admin, Cloudflare deploy) for hotels that need a visual editor without giving up Astro performance.
One-time license: every hotel site you build
Buy once. Use forever.
No subscriptions. No renewals.
Launch a site that feels like the place itself.
