Scholar
A website template for a phD student homepage
Scholar is a single-page homepage for a working researcher: a flat navy banner with your name, an identity rail, your publication record, your awards, and a way to reach you. Anchor navigation moves between them; there is no second page to maintain.
Who Scholar is for
Built for these, and tested against them.
- PhD students and postdocs
- Research scientists
- Tenure-track faculty
- Academic job-market candidates
- Anyone who wants one page, kept current
What’s included
Everything below ships with the template, already filled in.
- Pages
- 1 page, written and laid out
- Grows with you
- 6 publication entries at /publications/, 4 award entries at /awards/ — add one and its index and detail page both update
- Enquiries
- A working form — messages land in your Sitelas inbox
- Type
- Newsreader and IBM Plex Sans · light 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
About This Template
Everything on one page
Publications are a collection, not page content
Every paper is a row you edit — title, author list, venue, year, status, and links. Adding next year's paper is a content edit, not a layout edit. Entries group themselves under Submitted and Published from their status field, and the Paper and Code links only appear on the entries that have them.
Set like a document
Newsreader for what you read, IBM Plex Sans for what you scan, and a claret accent kept to links and one button. Your name is the only display type on the page.
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 Scholar
Can I change how Scholar looks?
All of it. Colours, type, spacing, photographs and every word are yours to edit — in the visual editor, or by asking an AI agent to do it for you. Nothing is locked.
Do I need to know how to code to use Scholar?
No. You edit the page by clicking the thing you want to change. There is no code to write and nothing to install.
Can I add more publication entries later?
Yes — that is what the publication collection is for. Adding one from the editor creates its own page at /publications/ and updates the index automatically. You are not editing a list by hand.
What does Scholar cost?
Nothing to start, and there is no trial clock. A free site runs on a sitelas.com address; Pro is $9 a month per site when you want your own domain, analytics and more room.
Can I use my own domain?
Yes, on Pro. Point your domain at the site and SSL is issued automatically — there is no certificate to buy or renew.
Make Scholar 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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