# Web Publishing Platforms for Scholars

So you're ready to make your academic website. Excellent! This guide provides a quick comparison of some tools you might use to build your site and links to our favorite tutorials for getting started.

## Considerations

When choosing a web publishing platform you might consider...

- price
- portability, i.e. can you take it with you after Harvard
- technical skill required
- customization
- type of content (writing, data viz, personal site, etc.)

## Platforms

### [OpenScholar](https://openscholar.harvard.edu/)

### [Scalar](https://scalar.fas.harvard.edu/)

Scalar is

**Links**
- [Official Guide](https://scalar.usc.edu/works/guide2/index)
- [Example Scalar Books](https://library.brown.edu/create/cds/workshops/workshop-scalar/)

### [Wix](https://www.wix.com/)

### [Squarespace](https://www.squarespace.com/)

### [Wordpress](https://wordpress.com/)

### [Github Pages](https://pages.github.com/)