My Alternate Portfolio Website is a Jekyll-based portfolio template that generates a personal homepage with a Particle.js animated background to showcase your web presence, résumé, story, and featured projects.
What is My Alternate Portfolio Website?
This template is a static personal portfolio website generated with Jekyll, styled with Sass, and built with Gulp.js. It takes your personal content — biography, résumé, project links — and produces a single-page site with an interactive particle network background. The template was created by Aditya Vikram Singh and is available on GitHub with a live demo hosted at people.umass.edu/avsingh.
Key Features
- Particle.js theme — an interactive, animated particle background that aligns with the site's visual design.
- Jekyll static generation — the site compiles to plain HTML/CSS/JS, so it can be hosted on any static file server or GitHub Pages.
- Sass styling — stylesheets are authored in Sass, enabling variables, mixins, and modular CSS organization.
- Gulp.js build pipeline — automates asset minification, prefixing, and other build steps during development.
- Portfolio sections — includes dedicated areas for web presence, résumé, personal story, and featured projects.
- Open source repository — the source is publicly available on GitHub and is actively maintained, with a latest release dated 13 June 2021.
Who is it for?
- Students and early-career professionals — publish a personal portfolio to accompany internship and job applications without hand-coding a site.
- Developers — showcase open-source projects and technical résumé with a modern animated layout.
- Personal branding — individuals who want a one-page website telling their story and linking to their online profiles.
What can you do with it?
- Create a personal homepage: Add your bio, résumé, and story to produce a clean online presence.
- Showcase featured projects: Highlight selected work with links and descriptions in a dedicated projects section.
- Host for free: Since the output is static, you can deploy it to GitHub Pages, Netlify, or any static host with a Jekyll build step.
FAQ
Is My Alternate Portfolio Website free?
Yes, the template's source code is publicly available on GitHub under a repository maintained by Aditya Vikram Singh. You can fork, modify, and use it for personal or commercial projects without payment.
What technology does this portfolio template use?
The template is built with Jekyll as the static site generator, Sass for styling, and Gulp.js for build automation. The animated background uses Particle.js, a JavaScript library for creating particle systems.
Where can I see a live demo?
A live demo of the template in action is hosted at people.umass.edu/avsingh. The repository itself is linked from the GitHub page, where you can also see the latest release and repository status badges.
