# \[ANN\] - AcademicWebsite.jl
**URL:** https://discourse.julialang.org/t/ann-academicwebsite-jl/132233
**Category:** Package Announcements
**Tags:** announcement, web, website, academia
**Created:** [September 9, 2025, 2:31pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/ann-academicwebsite-jl/132233 "2025-09-09T14:31:17Z")
**Posts on this page:** 6
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### Author:  [@Cavenfish](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/Cavenfish)
#### Post date: [September 9, 2025, 2:31pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/ann-academicwebsite-jl/132233/1 "2025-09-09T14:31:17Z")
I’d like to share my new package [AcademicWebsite.jl](https://github.com/Cavenfish/AcademicWebsite.jl), which started out as an attempt to remake my personal website using `Franklin.jl`. Its a website template heavily inspired by the AcademicPages website template. I considered putting it in `FranklinTemplates.jl`, but I wanted to be able to easily update my personal website as the template developed. So I made it into a package, where it has functions that allow for updating template specific files without changing user specific files.
There is still a lot to improve (even a few bugs that were fixed during the 3-day waiting period), but I would be happy to hear feedback from the Julia community on it. There is already a live-demo linked in the repo to see what is possible with it (was not able to link it here).
I’m also not a web-dev, so suggestions (or PRs) for improving (literally anything on) the site would be greatly appreciated.
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### Author:  [@Boris](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/Boris)
#### Post date: [September 11, 2025, 10:17am UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/ann-academicwebsite-jl/132233/2 "2025-09-11T10:17:41Z")
Nice, I have been using hugo academic (which now is called blox or something like that) and have been getting more and more frustrated by it.
Where can I find the demo? I had a look and couldn’t see a link in the repo (just a check mark). Is your personal website done with it? I had a look through your github and it was a purple website.
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### Author:  [@Cavenfish](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/Cavenfish)
#### Post date: [September 11, 2025, 10:27am UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/ann-academicwebsite-jl/132233/3 "2025-09-11T10:27:04Z")
My website is indeed purple 😄 (I love the color but I’m not fully happy with color scheme for my website yet lol). It is made using the package but I haven’t used the full functionality of the package yet.
I wasn’t able to link it in the original post but maybe now I can. Here is the [demo site](https://cavenfish.github.io/AcademicWebsite.jl/).
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### Author:  [@Boris](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/Boris)
#### Post date: [September 11, 2025, 10:28am UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/ann-academicwebsite-jl/132233/4 "2025-09-11T10:28:59Z")
Thanks!
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### Author:  [@Tamas\_Papp](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/Tamas_Papp)
#### Post date: [September 11, 2025, 10:45am UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/ann-academicwebsite-jl/132233/5 "2025-09-11T10:45:59Z")
> [@Cavenfish](#):
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> started out as an attempt to remake my personal website using `Franklin.jl`
Can you please explain why that did not work out?
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### Author:  [@Cavenfish](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/Cavenfish)
#### Post date: [September 11, 2025, 10:53am UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/ann-academicwebsite-jl/132233/6 "2025-09-11T10:53:10Z")
Its not that it didn’t work out, but rather that I decided to do more than just make my own website. I figured it would be nice to make a template for others to also use. Turning it into a package was just to make it easier to update an existing website.