Kitefolio Studio original · Free · MIT
Seminar
A clear academic homepage: who you are, what you work on, papers, students and teaching, all easy to scan.
Designed by Kitefolio Studio
Added 2 October 2026 · 2 downloads

The idea
A clear academic homepage: who you are, what you work on, papers, students and teaching, all easy to scan.
Inspired by
Good academic homepages: plain, fast and easy to cite.
What to notice
Papers, students and teaching are one scan away, which is what visitors come for.
How it was made
Drawn and built by the Kitefolio studio as a React component, then tested in the editor, on phones and with reduced motion. Every section reads from one shared content model, so the same words fill any design.
Who it’s for
Professors, Postdocs, Research leads.
Scroll through it
The real template, running live with sample content.
Two ways to use it
Free · you edit the code
Download and set it up
- Install Node.js (the LTS version) if you don’t have it.
- Unzip the download and open the folder in a terminal.
- Run
npm install, thennpm run dev. It opens in your browser. - Put your own words in
src/content.jsonand your photos inpublic/. Colours and fonts are in the README. - Run
npm run buildand upload thedistfolder to any static host (Netlify, Cloudflare Pages, GitHub Pages).
No code · free to start
Let Kitefolio handle it
- Click any text or photo to change it, no code at all
- A free address, or your own domain with Pro
- Hosting, speed and security looked after
- A blog, and the Investigator to keep it up to date
- Switch to another design any time, keeping your words
Made for these jobs
Open Seminar with sample content written for your job title.
Questions about Seminar
- Is the Seminar template free?
- Yes. You can download Seminar free (MIT licence) and host it yourself, or customise it in Kitefolio and publish it free at a Kitefolio address. Your own domain comes with Pro, from AED 35 a month.
- Who is Seminar for?
- Professors, Postdocs, Research leads.
- Can I use Seminar without coding?
- Yes. In the Kitefolio editor you click any text or photo on Seminar to change it, import your CV or LinkedIn, and publish in a few minutes. No code is needed.
- Does Seminar work on phones?
- Yes. Seminar adapts to any screen size and was tested on phones, tablets and desktops, and with reduced motion.
- Can I change the colours and fonts of Seminar?
- It comes with 3 colour schemes (College, Quad, Plum). Font pairings: Literata + Public Sans, Newsreader + Public Sans. You switch them in the editor's Design panel.
- Can I switch from Seminar to another template later?
- Yes. Your content is kept separately from the design, so you can move to any other Kitefolio template without retyping anything.


