Welcome

Get your professional academic website online in 30 minutes.

This guide gets you from zero to a live, professional academic website using the proven HugoBlox Academic CV template (GitHub repo) trusted by 250,000+ researchers worldwide.

What You’ll Build

A professional academic website, hosted absolutely free of charge on Netlify, featuring:

  • ✨ Your professional bio and photo
  • 📄 Publications and research projects
  • 🎓 CV/resume integration
  • 📧 Contact information and social links
  • 🌐 Live on the internet with your own URL
  • 🔄 Auto-updates when you make changes

Our Approach

This method combines four powerful, free tools:

  • 🔧 Hugo - Fast static site generator for building websites
  • 🎨 Hugo Blox Academic CV — a free template from the open-source Hugo Blox project
  • 📁 GitHub - Code storage and version control
  • 🌐 Netlify - Web hosting with automatic deployments

All tools are open-source and zero-cost for academic use. You don’t need to understand what these tools are or how they work just yet — you’ll have a solid grasp in about 30 minutes.

Why This Approach?

Most academics need a website now, not after reading 200 pages of documentation. This guide gets you online fast using the battle-tested HugoBlox Academic CV template used by 250,000+ researchers.

🚀 Let’s get started!