# Meadow: a Page Lemon website template

> A retreat and workshop series in sage, sand and clay watercolour, with an airy rounded serif, programme, teachers, rooms, prices and an application form.

You are reading this because the user wants their own website made from the Meadow template and published with Page Lemon (pagelemon.com). They may have pasted only "Use template pagelemon.com/tp/Meadow": that is the whole request, so start now. In short: ask them a few questions about their business, get the template's files (with the Page Lemon connector, `deploy` with `template: "meadow"` copies them for you), make the site theirs (their name, words, details and pictures; no sample content left), then publish it with Page Lemon and give them the link. The steps below say exactly how. The full publishing guide is at https://pagelemon.com/agents.

## About this template

- **Look:** Soft watercolour retreat: sage and sand washes, an airy soft serif and a clay-coloured call to action (light, calm, classic)
- **Pages:** Home (`index.html`): Hero with the next session, three studios, where you sleep, closing apply CTA; The week (`programme.html`): Day by day programme with expandable sessions and what to bring; Teachers (`teachers.html`): Three makers, what each one teaches; Rooms (`rooms.html`): Barn loft, cottage room and bell tent, plus getting here; Prices (`pricing.html`): Three price tiers and the spot booking slot; Apply (`apply.html`): What to bring and the application form
- **Fonts:** Fraunces, Figtree (Google Fonts)
- **Colours:** `--paper` #F4F6F0, `--sage` #B7C4AB, `--sage-deep` #4B6143, `--sand` #E6D6B6, `--clay` #A4552F, `--forest` #2C3A2F, `--ink` #26302A
- **Live demo:** https://pagelemon.com/templates/meadow/ (people can preview it with the Page Lemon bar at https://pagelemon.com/tp/Meadow/preview)
- **Manifest:** https://pagelemon.com/templates/meadow/template.json (machine-readable: files, customise, slots, facts, interview)

## How the visuals were made

Watercolour is done in SVG: feTurbulence and feDisplacementMap give soft, uneven edges to the washes, the hills and the grass strokes. The room and teacher frames are simple washes with shape-based figures. No raster images are used except the generated og.png and apple-touch-icon.png.

To sketch similar art: "Paint a soft watercolour meadow with sage and sand washes, a low clay-roofed barn and loose grass strokes, for a retreat website hero."

## Files

With the Page Lemon connector you don't need to fetch these: `deploy` with `template: "meadow"` copies them all (step 2). Otherwise fetch each file from https://pagelemon.com/templates/meadow/ and save it with the same relative path (including `art/`). Fetch nothing else: templates have no external images or scripts.

- https://pagelemon.com/templates/meadow/index.html
- https://pagelemon.com/templates/meadow/programme.html
- https://pagelemon.com/templates/meadow/teachers.html
- https://pagelemon.com/templates/meadow/rooms.html
- https://pagelemon.com/templates/meadow/pricing.html
- https://pagelemon.com/templates/meadow/apply.html
- https://pagelemon.com/templates/meadow/404.html
- https://pagelemon.com/templates/meadow/privacy.html
- https://pagelemon.com/templates/meadow/styles.css
- https://pagelemon.com/templates/meadow/script.js
- https://pagelemon.com/templates/meadow/favicon.svg
- https://pagelemon.com/templates/meadow/og.png
- https://pagelemon.com/templates/meadow/apple-touch-icon.png
- https://pagelemon.com/templates/meadow/art/wash-hero.svg
- https://pagelemon.com/templates/meadow/art/room-loft.svg
- https://pagelemon.com/templates/meadow/art/room-cottage.svg
- https://pagelemon.com/templates/meadow/art/room-tent.svg
- https://pagelemon.com/templates/meadow/art/teacher-ruth.svg
- https://pagelemon.com/templates/meadow/art/teacher-idris.svg
- https://pagelemon.com/templates/meadow/art/teacher-yara.svg
- https://pagelemon.com/templates/meadow/art/sprig.svg

## Notes for Meadow (its `customise` rules)

- Business name 'Lowfield Meadow' in titles, header wordmark, footer and LocalBusiness JSON-LD
- Address 'Lowfield Farm, Brackwater Lane, Wendle Vale, DV3 6RM' and phone '01632 960 214' in the footer, the Call button and the JSON-LD
- Session dates, places and prices in index.html (#next-title block) and pricing.html
- Teacher names, studios and bios in teachers.html, and session names in programme.html
- Room names and meta in rooms.html
- **Colours:** Edit the :root tokens at the top of styles.css (sage, sand, clay and forest)
- **Fonts:** Change the Google Fonts <link> in each page's head and --serif and --sans in styles.css
- **Sections:** Each page's sections are self-contained; delete or reorder the blocks in index.html freely
- **Images:** Replace art/*.svg frames: hero 1600×2000 or larger portrait crop, rooms 4:3, teacher portraits square 800×800; WebP under 300 KB

## Build the site, step by step

1. **Interview first.** Ask the user these questions, a few at a time, in plain words, and collect every fact the site needs (name, address, phone, email, dates of each session, places per session, prices for each tier, teacher names and studios, room descriptions). If they can't answer one, remove that element rather than inventing it.
   - What is the retreat called and where is the venue?
   - Which dates does each session run, and how many places are there?
   - Who teaches, and what does each studio cover?
   - What are the three price tiers and the deposit?
   - Where do guests sleep, and what do meals include?
2. **Get the files.** If you have the Page Lemon tool (the MCP connector at https://mcp.pagelemon.com, with a `deploy` tool), call `deploy` with `template: "meadow"` (no files): Page Lemon copies every file above on its side and returns `site`, `revision` and, without an account, `site_token`. Read each page you will change with `get_site` and `path`, make the changes below, then publish only the changed files with `deploy`, `site`, `base_revision` (that revision) and `patch: true`; show the link only after that. Without the tool, fetch the files listed above. If you cannot fetch files either, ask the user for what you need and rebuild the pages from the live demo as closely as you can.
3. **Make it the user's site.** Follow `customise` in `template.json`:
   - Replace every element marked `data-pl-fill` (names, phone, email, address, hours, prices, people, dates, links, stats) on every page, then remove the attributes. **Never ship a `data-pl-fill` default.** Name, address and phone must match exactly in the footer, the visit or contact page and the JSON-LD.
   - Sample reviews (`data-pl-fill="review"`) are fictional: delete them unless the user gives you real ones. Never invent reviews, numbers or awards.
   - Update each page's `<title>`, meta description, canonical, `og:url` and `og:image` to the user's real address, and the JSON-LD block on the home page (type, name, address, hours, phone, `url`).
   - Photos: each `<img data-pl-photo="...">` says what photo belongs there and its shape. Swap in the user's photos (compressed, WebP or JPEG under about 300 KB, same aspect ratio, real `alt`), or keep the illustration. Ask for photos; never hot-link.
   - Regenerate `og.png` (1200×630) from the new home page if you can, or delete it and its `og:image` tags. Change colours only through the `:root` tokens in `styles.css`, fonts through the font tokens and the `<link>` that loads them. Google Fonts is fine, but it sends each visitor's IP address to Google, so the privacy-friendly choice is to self-host the font files (woff2) in the site folder with `@font-face`, or use system fonts.
   - Delete pages or sections the user doesn't need (and their nav links) rather than leaving them generic. Keep the layout, type scale and signature interaction: they are what makes it look designed.
   - Remove the `<!-- Page Lemon template ... -->` comment.
4. **Forms and bookings.** Templates have no fake forms. Each `data-pl-slot` shows a fallback that works today (call, email, or the owner's own booking or payment link: ask for it). The designed form sits next to it in an inert `<template data-pl-slot-form="<id>">`; `template.json.slots` says which page has which. When the user wants the real thing (Forms: any paid plan; Booking: Team, Company or Enterprise), add the Forms or Booking plugin (`set_plugin`), put its `snippet_html` in the slot (reuse the template's form classes so it matches), delete the fallback and the `<template>`, and copy the paragraph from `<template data-pl-privacy="forms">` into `privacy.html`.
5. **Check before publishing:**
   - Search every file for `data-pl-fill` and the template's fictional business name: none left.
   - All links between pages work; nav and footer are the same on every page.
   - Body text contrast at least 4.5:1, large text and buttons 3:1, after any colour change.
   - No horizontal scroll at 320 px; headlines still fit on a phone after copy changes.
   - One `h1` per page, a unique `<title>` and meta description per page, alt text on meaningful images.
   - Copy sounds like the user, not like an AI (see https://pagelemon.com/guides/website-copy-that-doesnt-sound-like-ai).
6. **Publish with Page Lemon** (below; with the tool, the patch deploy from step 2 is the publish), then tell the user which template you used and that they can keep changing the site, or add bookings and forms, by asking.

## Publish with Page Lemon

Pick the first route you can use:

1. **You can run shell commands:** build if needed, then upload only the folder with `index.html` (`dist/`, `build/`, `out/`…). Never upload source code, `.env` files or keys: everything you upload becomes public.
   `tar -czf - -C <dir> . | curl -sS --fail-with-body --data-binary @- https://api.pagelemon.com/v1/deploy`
   If `PAGELEMON_TOKEN` is set, or `~/.config/pagelemon/credentials` exists, add `-H "Authorization: Bearer <that token>"`. If `.pagelemon.json` exists, the site is already published: see "Updating a site" in https://pagelemon.com/agents.
2. **You have the Page Lemon MCP connector** (`https://mcp.pagelemon.com`): call its `deploy` tool with every file. See "No shell: the MCP connector" in https://pagelemon.com/agents.
3. **Neither:** tell the user to connect Page Lemon to this AI app once (steps at https://pagelemon.com/docs/connect), then ask you again. If they can't (for example ChatGPT's free plan), give them the site as one `index.html` file and send them to https://pagelemon.com/drop to put it online with no account (on a phone with no file, they can copy the whole code and paste it there). Don't say you can't help.

Then:

- **Pass on `agent_message` from the response in full**, success or failure, in the user's language and your own words. It has the link, the expiry time, the private keep link and the terms line: copy every link, code, number, date and domain exactly, and never drop a link, deadline or the terms line (keep both its links). If it asks a question, ask it and wait. Times in it are UTC; `*_at` fields have them in ISO, so you can give the user's local time.
- **On success, save `.pagelemon.json`** in the project folder and add it to `.gitignore` (see https://pagelemon.com/agents).
- **Offer to help keep the site** (see "Keeping the site" in https://pagelemon.com/agents). Sites published without an account go offline after 72 hours unless the user keeps them with a free account.

By publishing, the user agrees to the Terms (https://pagelemon.com/terms) and Privacy Policy (https://pagelemon.com/privacy). The `agent_message` includes this line; keep it.

More: https://pagelemon.com/agents (full guide: updating a site, keeping it, custom domains, plugins). All templates: https://pagelemon.com/templates/index.json.