Modern Personal Portfolio Website — HTML/CSS Starter Template

Launch a clean, modern personal website in a single evening.

NovaProfile is a premium one-page portfolio website template built with clean HTML, CSS, and a tiny bit of JavaScript. It’s designed for developers, designers, freelancers, and students who want a professional online presence without messing with frameworks, build tools, or complex setups.

If you’ve been putting off building your portfolio because it’s “too much work” or you don’t know where to start, this template gives you a ready-made structure that already looks like a real, polished personal site.

Just swap in your name, projects, skills and links — and you’re ready to share it with recruiters, clients, and collaborators.

Perfect for:

• Developers who need a clean portfolio for job applications or freelance work
• Designers who want a modern layout to showcase UI, web, or brand projects
• Freelancers & creators who want a simple, professional personal page
• Students & recent grads applying to internships, bootcamps, and junior roles
• Anyone who wants a personal site that looks premium without learning a whole new tech stack

What you get inside

You’re not getting just a barebones HTML file — this is a fully structured one-page site with all the key sections you actually need:

• Hero section
  Name, role, quick intro, and strong call-to-action buttons (view work / contact).
• About section
  Short bio area + “At a glance” card for your role, focus, and availability.
• Selected Work section
  Project cards for your best work with space for tech stack, your role, and outcomes.
  Perfect for linking to live sites, GitHub repos, Figma files, Dribbble shots, case studies, etc.
• Skills section
  Categorized skill blocks (Core skills, Tools & frameworks, Bonus skills) displayed as clean tags.
• Contact section
  Email, GitHub, LinkedIn and a clear CTA button (“Email me”).
  Makes it dead simple for recruiters or clients to reach out.

Plus:

• Sticky header + smooth navigation between sections
• Clean, dark UI with premium gradients and spacing
• Responsive layout that looks great on desktop, tablet, and mobile devices

Tech stack (simple on purpose)

• HTML – for the structure
• CSS – for styling, layout, and responsive behavior
• Vanilla JavaScript – only for the mobile navigation toggle + dynamic year in the footer

No React. No build tools. No bundlers.
Just open index.html and you’re live.

Easy to customize

NovaProfile is built so any beginner can customize it without getting lost, and an experienced dev can tweak it in minutes.

You can quickly:

• Change your name, role, and tagline in the header and hero
• Swap in your own bio, skills, and project descriptions
• Update links to your GitHub, LinkedIn, portfolio, or CV
• Add or remove project cards depending on how much work you’d like to show
• Edit the skills tags to match your stack (React, Vue, Node, Tailwind, etc.)

All the main colors and style tokens live in one place at the top of style.css, so you can quickly:

• Change the accent color to match your personal brand
• Adjust backgrounds, borders, and typography if you want a different vibe
• Swap out the font by updating the Google Fonts import and font-family

How fast can you launch?

Realistically:

• 15–30 minutes to plug in your own text, links, and skill tags
• 30–60 minutes to fully customize projects and polish your copy
• A few more minutes to deploy it to Netlify, Vercel, GitHub Pages, or your own hosting

You can literally go from “no portfolio” to “live professional website” in a single evening.

Where you can host it

Because NovaProfile is a completely static site, you can host it almost anywhere:

• Netlify (drag-and-drop)
• Vercel
• GitHub Pages
• Shared hosting / cPanel / FTP
• Any platform that can serve an index.html file

Beginner-friendly README included

You also get a clear README file that walks you through:

• How to preview the template locally
• Which parts of the HTML to edit (name, sections, links)
• How to add your own projects and skills
• How to change colors and fonts
• How to upload the site to a host and make it live

You don’t need to be a pro to use this. If you know how to open a file and edit text, you can launch this.

Licensing (for buyers)

You can:

• Use this template for unlimited personal or client projects
• Customize it for your own portfolio or brand
• Use it as a starting point for client work you deliver

You cannot:

• Resell this template “as-is” as your own product
• Upload the same template to marketplaces without significant changes and added value