Sawad Freelance developer portfolio template
Sawad is for software engineers, design engineers and freelance developers. A profile card stays pinned while your projects, experience, tools and writing scroll past, so visitors always know whose work they are looking at.
Who Sawad is for
Built for these, and tested against them.
- Senior software engineers shipping client work alongside a day job
- Solo product designers running a small consulting practice
- Freelance creative directors with a long project list and recent writing
- Design engineers who want a portfolio that reads like a personal site
- Engineers leaving a company and putting up a single page to ship
What’s included
Everything below ships with the template, already filled in.
- Pages
- 5 pages, written and laid out
- Grows with you
- 3 project entries at /projects/, 3 blog entries at /blog/ — add one and its index and detail page both update
- Enquiries
- A working form — messages land in your Sitelas inbox
- Fonts
- Poppins and Manrope · dark theme
- Everywhere
- Built and checked at phone, tablet and desktop widths
- Yours to change
- Every colour, word and photograph — in the editor or by asking an AI agent
Build Sawad by asking your AI agent
No editor required. The agent writes your copy, swaps the photos and publishes the site.
- 1Connect Sitelas to Claude, ChatGPT or another AI agent that supports MCP. How to connect
- 2Ask for it in plain words: “Build a website for a senior software engineer using the Sawad template.”
- 3Open the preview link it sends back, ask for changes, and publish when it reads right.
Then keep changing it from the same chat
- Rewrite the copy“Rewrite every page in a warmer, friendlier voice.”
- Change the design“Make the colours earthier and use a serif for headings.”
- Add or remove pages“Add a Pricing page and remove the Blog.”
- Rearrange sections“Move the testimonials higher and add an FAQ.”
- Swap the photos“Replace the photos with ones that fit my business.”
- Run the site“Show me this week's form messages, then publish.”
Everything here can also be done by hand in the visual editor.
About the Sawad template
Built for freelance developers
Sawad is a personal site for developers who freelance or want to be found. Your photo and links stay beside every page, while projects, experience, tools and writing each get room of their own.
What's on the site
- Home with your bio, stats and a contact form with a budget field
- Projects, with a page for each
- Experience and Tools
- Thoughts, a blog with a page per post
Keeping it current
Projects and posts are collections: publish once and the home preview, the list and the detail page all update. The budget field helps you sort enquiries before a call.
When to pick something else
Sawad is the wrong template for these. Where there is a better one, it is linked.
- Agency with multiple practitioners
- Academic CV
- Ecommerce
- Service-business with pricing tiers
- Image-only photography portfolio
Free to use · No credit card required
- 1Opens in the editor with the starter content in place
- 2Change the words and pictures to yours
- 3Publish to a sitelas.com address, or your own domain
Key Highlights
Questions about Sawad
Can I write posts as well as show projects?
Yes. Projects and posts are both collections, each with a home preview, an index and a page per entry.
Can freelance clients share a budget?
Yes. The contact form has a budget field so you can qualify enquiries before a call.
Who is Sawad for?
Sawad is built for a senior software engineer, a design engineer and a freelance frontend developer. Not built for agency with multiple practitioners.
What pages come with Sawad?
5 pages, already written and laid out: Home, Projects, Experience, Tools and Thoughts. Add, rename or remove pages whenever you like.
Can Claude or ChatGPT build my site from Sawad?
Yes. Connect Sitelas to your AI agent and ask for a site that uses Sawad. It fills in your details, sends you a preview link, and publishes when you approve. The same chat can keep running the site afterwards.
Can I change Sawad without code?
Yes. Click any text, photo or colour to change it in the visual editor, or ask your AI agent to make the change. Nothing is locked.
What does it cost?
Nothing to start, with no trial clock. A free site runs on a sitelas.com address; Pro is $16 a month per site ($160 a year) for your own domain, analytics and more room.
Can I use my own domain?
Yes, on Pro. Point your domain at the site and the SSL certificate is issued and renewed for you.
Make Sawad yours
It opens in the editor with every page already written. Change what you want, publish when it reads like you.
Free to use · No credit card required
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