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title: Personal website
description: A standalone personal website generated from your Sifa profile, styled like academicpages.github.io. Self-hostable.
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Sifa ID's profile data doubles as a standalone personal website. This page covers the features built for that.

## Personal website

Every Sifa profile has a second, standalone view at `sifa.id/p/{handle}/site`, styled after [academicpages.github.io](https://academicpages.github.io/): a top masthead, a left sidebar with your identity and links, a print-friendly layout, and a dark mode toggle. It looks like your own personal site, not a social profile.

The content comes from the same profile sections you already fill in on Sifa: About, Positions, Education, Publications, and so on. There's no separate data entry for the personal website. Update your profile once, and both views reflect it.

### Self-hosting your own copy

The renderer that generates this page is a standalone open-source package, [`@singi-labs/academicpages-renderer`](https://github.com/singi-labs/academicpages-renderer). If you want your personal website on your own domain instead of `sifa.id`, with your own branding, clone [sifa-academicpages](https://github.com/singi-labs/sifa-academicpages): a small static-site scaffold that pulls your profile from Sifa's public API and builds the same layout, deployable to GitHub Pages or any static host.

Your profile data still lives on your PDS either way. Self-hosting the page changes where the HTML is served from, not who owns the underlying records.

## Want to go deeper

- [External accounts](/docs/external-accounts): link GitHub, LinkedIn, and other platforms to your profile.
- [Your data on a provider](/docs/your-data-on-a-provider): what a profile record looks like on your PDS.