Personalized Retro Birthday Newspaper Website
Today’s headline: someone extraordinary was born.
Envelo Gazette – turn family stories, photos and gentle jokes into a vintage-style birthday newspaper: a little website to open on any screen, and a two-page paper to print.
Today’s headline: Someone extraordinary was born.
$3.49$4.99−30%
Website you make in your browserInstant downloadWorks offline
Try it here
A live demo with a made-up example. Nothing you type here is saved or sent anywhere.
What it does
- A front page with the paper’s name, the date of the edition, your headline, the front-page story and a photo. The age, the “70th Birthday Edition” line and “Est. 1956” are worked out from the dates you enter, and so is the day of the week they were born.
- The Chronicle: up to 12 milestones, sorted by year, in newspaper columns.
- A photo chronicle with captions. Photos get a sepia, black-and-white or faded look with newsprint dots – readers can tap “Show in colour”.
- Quotes of the day, a playful interview and small “In other news” corners such as a weather report – all written by you.
- A message at the end.
- Print edition: two pages for US Letter, A4, A3 and Tabloid (11×17). The type size adjusts so your text fits on two pages.
- An optional second language with a switch, including right-to-left languages such as Hebrew and Arabic. Two colour themes, each with a dark mode.
How it works
- Download and unzip. Open editor.html in your web browser on a computer. No internet, no account.
- Look at the made-up example, press Start my own and write your news. Add photos: they are made smaller and their location data is removed.
- Press Download my site. You get a ZIP with the finished paper (index.html + assets + the print pages) that opens with a double-click.
What you receive
- START-HERE.pdf (0.21 MB)
- Envelo-Gazette-v1.0.zip (1.89 MB)
Inside the ZIP:
- editor.html: the builder, opens in your browser and works offline
- example-site/: a finished 70th birthday edition for made-up Maggie, with its print pages (26 files)
- HOW-TO-PUBLISH.md: free ways to put your paper online and how to print it
- LICENSES.txt and WHAT_YOU_GET.txt
Good to know
- This is a do-it-yourself builder. You write the news and add the photos; we do not make the paper for you.
- There is no real news from the birth year: everything in the paper is family news written by you.
- Hosting, a domain name and a public link are not included. To share the paper as a link, upload the folder to a web host. HOW-TO-PUBLISH shows free options; they are run by other companies and their terms can change.
- You print it yourself. A3 and Tabloid need a print shop or a large printer. Nothing is shipped.
- A QR code is made only after you paste the real address of your published paper.
- The builder is in English; you write the text of the paper in your own words and languages.
- For your own birthday gift or party. Please don't resell or share the files.
- Preview images were made with AI image tools and show made-up people. Your paper uses your own photos and words. The builder and the paper screens are the real product.
A closer look
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