Developer Portfolio Website (Dark) Template
A dark, code-forward portfolio for software developers and engineers. A terminal window types out who you are while the headline and buttons sit beside it, a tech stack grid says what you work with, project cards show screenshots with technology tags and links to the demo and the code, and a vertical timeline walks through your experience. An about section, kind words from colleagues and a contact form finish the page.
One page keeps everything on a single scrolling page. The 5-page website opens all its pages in the editor: Home, Projects, About, Contact, Privacy.
Developer Portfolio Website (Dark) Template — Free, Editable, Export HTML
Software · One page or 5 pages · 9 sections · Space Grotesk + Inter · Responsive · GSAP animation
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Give this prompt to an AI assistant to generate your own version of the Developer Portfolio Website (Dark) template: swap in your business name, services and tone, add or remove sections, translate it, or turn the page into a Next.js project or a WordPress theme. Use the template above as the visual reference, so you and the AI start from a design that already works.
Prompt to recreate it
Copy this into your AI assistant of choice to build the effect from scratch, or as a jumping-off point for your own variant:
Build a complete developer portfolio website (dark) website for “arjun.dev” as clean HTML, CSS and a little JavaScript.
Page structure, top to bottom:
1. Simple Sticky Navbar
2. Terminal Hero: “I build fast, reliable web apps”
3. Icon Grid Features: “A stack I know well”
4. Project Cards: “Projects I am proud of”
5. Vertical Timeline: “Where I have worked”
6. About Us & Our Story: “Developer, teacher and tinkerer”
7. Testimonial Wall: “What people say”
8. Contact Form With Details: “Let’s build something good”
9. Minimal Footer
Look and feel:
- Colours as CSS custom properties: brand #5eead4, page background #0a0f1c, cards #131b2e, text #e8edf7, muted text #97a6c0. Corner radius 14px, content width 1200px.
- Headings in Space Grotesk, body text in Inter (load both from Google Fonts with display=swap).
- Mobile first. Sections use CSS grid or flexbox and stack cleanly below 700px.
Content:
- Write real, believable software copy for every section instead of lorem ipsum: specific offers, numbers, names and calls to action.
- One clear primary action in the hero and again near the end.
Quality:
- Semantic HTML (header, main, section, footer) with exactly one h1, the hero headline, and one h2 per section.
- Accessible: alt text on every image, visible focus states, labelled form fields, buttons and links with clear text, and prefers-reduced-motion respected.
- SEO: title “Arjun Mehta: Full-Stack Developer in Berlin, React and Node”, a meta description of 150 to 160 characters, Open Graph tags and JSON-LD that suits a software business.
- Optional: a subtle GSAP ScrollTrigger fade-up on section headings, with content visible without JavaScript.
Also create these pages with the same navbar, footer and theme, and link them from the menu:
- Projects (projects.html)
- About (about.html)
- Contact (contact.html)
- Privacy (privacy.html)Want to tighten it up first? Run this prompt through the AI Prompt Studio to score it across 8 quality dimensions, catch anti-patterns, and tune the wording for Claude, ChatGPT, or Gemini before you paste it in.
Multi-page version
Pages in the 5-Page Developer Portfolio Website (Dark) Template
What's included
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About this template
A Free Developer Portfolio Website (Dark) Template You Can Edit Online
A dark, code-forward portfolio for software developers and engineers. A terminal window types out who you are while the headline and buttons sit beside it, a tech stack grid says what you work with, project cards show screenshots with technology tags and links to the demo and the code, and a vertical timeline walks through your experience. An about section, kind words from colleagues and a contact form finish the page.
Use it as one scrolling page, or as a 5-page website (Home, Projects, About, Contact, Privacy) sharing one navbar, footer and theme. The one-page version is built from 9 sections of the Website Section Templates library and opens in the free Website Builder, where you can change every word and image, swap sections, set your own colours and fonts and export the finished site as clean HTML pages. The page is responsive, accessible and animated with GSAP, with content that stays visible without JavaScript.
The template ships with a Space Grotesk and Inter font pairing and a colour theme suited to developer portfolio website (dark) websites; switch to any Google Font, upload your own, or apply your brand kit in one click.
Extras included
Extras Built Into the Developer Portfolio Website (Dark) Template
Beyond the standard sections, the Developer Portfolio Website (Dark) template includes one extra that you can edit, move or remove in the builder.
About Us & Our Story: an About us section with the story, facts and values.
Each extra has its own page in the free Website Section Templates library, where you can try its settings on their own before you use it here.
Make it yours
How to Get the Most From the Developer Portfolio Website (Dark) Template
A developer portfolio has to answer three questions fast: who is this, what can they build, and how do I reach them. This template answers them in that order. The home page opens with a terminal window that types out who you are, with the headline, an availability badge, two buttons and social icons beside it, then a tech stack grid, a grid of project cards, a vertical experience timeline, an about section, kind words from colleagues and a contact form.
Three sections were made for this template. The Terminal Hero types your lines one at a time, with commands, output, success lines and comments in their own colours, and shows the finished terminal at once to visitors who prefer reduced motion. Project Cards show a screenshot, a year, a one-sentence description, technology tags and links to the live demo and the source code. The Vertical Timeline lists your experience and education from top to bottom, with a period, a title, a company, a description and tags for each entry.
As separate pages, the portfolio becomes easier to share: Projects lists every piece of work with a call to action, About holds your story, the timeline and a short section about your tools, and Contact pairs the form with straight answers about availability, pricing and how you work.
Messages from the contact form go to a form service, so the site is nothing but static files that GitHub Pages or Netlify can host for free. What you will not find is a blog engine, a CMS or analytics, and the screenshots are images you swap for your own. If you write articles, keep them on a platform you already use and link to them from here.
Your name and role are written as Person data, project screenshots carry descriptions, and each page has a single main heading, so a recruiter who searches your name finds a page that reads cleanly.
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Step by step
How to Use This Template
- 1Open the templateClick “Use as one page” or “Use as 5-page website” to load it in the Website Builder. Your current website is kept in Saved.
- 2Make it yoursClick any section to change its text, images and links; upload your logo and photos.
- 3Set your brandPick colours and fonts in the Theme tab, or apply your saved brand kit.
- 4Adjust the pageAdd sections from the library, drag to reorder, duplicate or remove what you don’t need.
- 5Export and publishDownload the ZIP (one HTML file per page for the multi-page version) and upload it to Netlify, Vercel or any host.
Got questions?
Frequently Asked Questions
Yes. The Personal Portfolio is a warm, light freelancer page. This one is a dark, code-forward developer portfolio with a typing terminal hero, a tech stack grid, project cards with tags and an experience timeline.
The lines type themselves out, but visitors who prefer reduced motion see the finished terminal at once. The text is real HTML, so search engines and screen readers can read it.
Edit the Project Cards list: a screenshot, a name, a description, tags typed one per line and links to the demo and the source. Leave a link empty to hide it, which suits private client work.
Yes. The multi-page version gives Projects, About and Contact their own pages beside Home, so you can share projects.html directly. The navigation and footer are shared.
No. Arjun Mehta, his employers, the reviews and the project names are invented, and the screenshots show other templates from this site. Put your own work in before anyone sees the page.
Yes. The Developer Portfolio Website (Dark) template is free for personal and commercial use, with no sign-up, no watermark and no attribution required.
Click “Use this template” to open it in the free Website Builder. Click any section to change its text, images and links, change colours and fonts for the whole page in the Theme tab, and add, remove or drag sections to reorder them.
Both. Use it as one scrolling page, or as a 5-page website (Home, Projects, About, Contact, Privacy) that opens with every page in the editor. The pages share one navbar, footer and theme, and the menu links to every page automatically. Add more pages (About, Pricing, Contact, Blog and others) or remove any you don’t need in the builder’s Pages tab.
Yes. As one page you get a ZIP with index.html and an assets folder. As a 5-page website you get one HTML file per page (index.html, projects.html, about.html, contact.html, privacy.html), a shared styles.css and script.js, and an assets folder with your images, then upload it to any web host. Links between pages also work when you open the files from your computer.