al-folio

al-folio is a Jekyll theme aimed at academics — a ready-made design for personal and professional websites that researchers, students, and labs can adopt without building one from scratch. Jekyll is a tool that turns a folder of plain Markdown files and configuration into a static website that can be hosted for free on GitHub Pages, and a "theme" gives that site a consistent layout, styling, and set of page templates. The README describes the design itself as simple, clean, and responsive, meaning the layout adapts well to phones, tablets, and desktops.

The way you would use it is to copy or fork the repository, fill in your content (an about page, publications, blog posts, project pages, and so on), and let GitHub Pages or another Jekyll-friendly host build and serve it. The repository also offers a Docker image for people who would rather run the site locally without installing a Ruby and Jekyll stack themselves.

You would reach for al-folio if you are a researcher, professor, or graduate student who needs a personal homepage, a lab page, or a course or workshop site that looks tidy and professional out of the box. The README highlights a large community of academics already using it for exactly these purposes, and it points to many such live sites as examples. The full README is longer than what was provided.