What is academicpages.github.io?

Academic Pages is a ready-made website template designed for researchers, academics, and anyone who wants a professional portfolio-style personal website hosted for free on GitHub Pages. GitHub Pages is a free service from GitHub that publishes a website directly from your repository, no separate hosting needed. The template is built on Jekyll (a tool that converts Markdown files, simple text files with basic formatting, into full HTML web pages) and styled with SCSS. To use it, you click "Use this template" to copy it into your own GitHub account, rename the repository to [your username].github.io, and your site is live at that URL. You then customize it by editing a configuration file and writing your content pages in Markdown, which is much easier than writing HTML by hand. The template is specifically geared toward academic portfolios: it has built-in sections for publications, talks, teaching, and CV information. There are even included scripts to generate publication and talk pages automatically from a spreadsheet-style TSV file (a simple data format). You can also preview changes on your own computer before publishing by running Jekyll locally, or avoid installing anything by using Docker (a containerization tool that packages all the dependencies for you). The template also supports development inside a code editor's built-in container environment. You would use Academic Pages if you are a researcher, PhD student, professor, or professional who wants a clean, organized personal website without having to build one from scratch or pay for hosting.