A multipurpose Jekyll theme with ready-made block designs for agencies, portfolios, studios, startups, and SaaS teams.
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Fast, responsive, SEO-minded themes for developers, creatives, bloggers, and growing businesses.
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A creative business and startup theme for building a bold, flexible digital presence.
A sleek ReactJS template built for digital agencies, SEO teams, web studios, and dev firms.
Deneb Jekyll Theme
A creative business and startup theme for teams that want a strong visual opening.
A fast, warm website theme for nutritionists, dietitians and wellness coaches, with programs, recipes, a journal and a link-in-bio page.
A fast single-page portfolio with a built-in blog for developers and designers, with light and dark modes and a 100-score build.
A fast Hugo theme for startups, SaaS products and agencies, with an animated rocket hero, pricing page, blog and light and dark modes.
A portfolio ReactJS template for personal brands, creators, and developers who want a fast, focused presentation.
Livvic Jekyll Theme
$49.99Creative agency and portfolio theme for makers who want a polished, flexible home on the web.
A creative agency theme for portfolios that need structure, confidence, and room to show the work.
A creative portfolio and agency theme for presenting projects with a little more momentum.
A clean one-page business theme for agencies, freelancers, and small studios.
A minimal, flexible Jekyll blog theme for writing, publishing, and content-led personal sites.
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Why Tortoiz
Good foundations
stay out of the way.
A theme should make the next step feel obvious — not add another system to manage.
Built with care
Thoughtful layouts, clean code, and documentation that respects your time.
Fast by default
Responsive assets and focused front ends that keep your content moving.
Ready to become yours
Strong starting points with enough room for your voice, brand, and ideas.
✦ Founder · designer · developer
Meet the maker
Hi, I’m Shail.
Tortoiz Themes is my one-person studio. I design, build, document, and support every theme here myself, so when you email with a question, you are talking to the person who wrote the code.
I have been making themes and templates for the independent web since 2014, first on ThemeForest and other marketplaces, and now directly through Tortoiz Themes, with a tighter focus on Jekyll, Hugo, ReactJS, and Astro.
- Making themes since
- 2014
- Total sales
- 7,000+
- Author ratings
- 4.8–5.0
From the people using them
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A few words from customers who have taken a Tortoiz theme into the real world.
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“I purchased the Snowlake Jekyll theme and everything met or exceeded my expectations. … Being a first time Jekyll user I had lots of questions and Shail was very helpful and responsive … I would buy from Tortoiz again without hesitation.”
★★★★★
“Tortoiz Themes’ Sandbox Jekyll Theme is clean, fast, and incredibly easy to customize—perfect for developers and bloggers alike. … Support is fast, friendly, and goes above and beyond to help with any issues.”
★★★★★
“This theme is super flexible and has a ton of features that are worth the cost. … The support from the theme developer is amazing as well. … Would highly recommend this theme.”
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Vega: A Hugo Theme for Startups and SaaS That Scores 100 on PageSpeed
Vega is a Hugo theme for startups and SaaS products, with an animated rocket hero, a pricing page and a blog. It scores 100 on mobile PageSpeed.
Design & development · 2 min read
How to Build a Developer Portfolio That Scores 100 on PageSpeed
A slow portfolio is a bad first impression. Here's what actually moves your PageSpeed score, and a single-page Astro theme that gets you there out of the box.
Guides · 3 min read
What Every Nutritionist Website Needs to Turn Instagram Followers into Clients
Your followers already trust you. Here's how to build a nutritionist or dietitian website that turns that trust into booked calls, from link-in-bio to recipes.
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