While paid or custom HTML templates are always the best, you can still get a decent looking HTML template which is free, if you know where to look. So here are some Free HTML Portfolio Website Templates that will help you to showcase your work and sell your services in a creative way.

Pofo Ad

It is a highly creative, modern, visually stunning and Bootstrap responsive multipurpose corporate and portfolio HTML5 template with 26 ready home page demos. Pofo is a graphically polished, interactive, easily customizable, highly modern, fast loading, search engine optimized, efficiently coded, well documented, vibrant and fully responsive HTML5 and CSS3 multi-purpose website template for corporate, agencies, freelancers, individuals as well as any type of businesses to showcase their company history, services, work portfolio and projects, team, blog in most creative and professional looking manner.

Free Bootstrap 4 Portfolio Theme for Developers

Developer is a free Bootstrap theme designed to help developers promote their work. It can be used as a professional portal to your other online portfolios or websites (eg. Linkedin, CoderWall, Blog, GitHub etc) in a modular fashion. The theme comes with all of the source SCSS files included so the styling/colour can easily be customised to your taste.

Gorgo Portfolio

Gorgo is a very simple yet creative Kirby CMS theme ( HTML include ) for freelancers, photographers, agencies, designers and other creative fields. It has some features which will help you make your project stand out from the crowd. It has been optimized to facilitate your time and money.

Kaunos Portfolio

Kaunos Theme is perfect for creative professionals to show their work in the best way possible. Design Theme is made in a beautiful style. It is suitable for Personal Portfolio, Creative Agency, Designer Portfolio, Illustrator Portfolio, Photographer Portfolio and more. If you search a theme which is clean code, easy to use, minimalist and fast, then this is for you.

Personal

Today we have for you a developer friendly HTML template with an organized structure that will make a great choice for a portfolio website. Personal is a grid based, ready to use template packed with animations and transitions for a smooth scrolling.

Snow

Minimalistic, clean and modern template specially designed for all kinds of creators. Made with attention to details, it’s an excellent choice for the presentation of your beautiful portfolio.

Pixfly

Pixfly is a free portfolio website template that lets you showcase your portfolio in style. This responsive html5 template is made free for designers, creative studios, agencies who want to look the best in their business.

OAK

OAK is a free HTML portfolio template designed by EliteFingers, a web development & branding studio specialised in the development of WordPress themes. This template is a great solution for designers, architectures, photographers and any kind of creative people who need a website for showcasing their own works.

Magnet

Magnet is a new portfolio HTML template with a beautiful, minimalistic design created to show your work in the best way possible. Easy to use and customize, it’s perfect for digital professionals. Keeping the focus on your works, Magnet would be the right fit whenever you need a website for a single designer or a big agency. Simple and minimalistic design leaves so much space for online self-expression. Your personality definitely won’t be lost!

Hola

This is a modern and stylish vCard website template. Designed to be a resume, vCard, portfolio template, it’s the perfect template for creative designers, developers, freelancers, photographer or any creative profession. It is fully responsive and retina/hi-dpi ready. It will look great on any devices from desktop to mobile phones. It has blog page templates, working contact form, stylish portfolio section and other features you will only find on premium templates. Built with clean and organized code, this template is also very easy to customize.

Focus

This is a free, simple and clean one page photography portfolio HTML template. It is built based on Bootstrap framework and features a responsive layout, filterable portfolio and working contact form.

One-Page

A free one page portfolio template built with Bootstrap.

Personal

Today we have for you a developer friendly HTML template with an organized structure that will make a great choice for a portfolio website. Personal is a grid based, ready to use template packed with animations and transitions for a smooth scrolling.

Typefolio

Creative minimalist portfolio website template perfect for creative folks.

Lens

Lens is a surprising free template aimed at photographers in need for a solution that focuses on what matters most to them: your work.

Dribbble Folio

Updated with the new Dribbble API, you have to create an API token for the same from dribbble.com/account/applications

Design portfolio

If you’re a designer and that’s up your alley, you can use this as a starting point for your own portfolio.

THOMSOON – Free responsive Portfolio Theme

Free responsive modern and clean HTML5, CSS3 and Jquery. Multipurpose Page minimalist website with content about us, portfolio and contact. Full screen portfolio view and home page with Parallax sidebar. Navigation is sticky to top – header. Ideal for your portfolio and photography showcase.

Free One Page Website

One Page minimalist website with content about us, portfolio and contact form. Full screen intro with Parallax. Navigation is sticky to top – header. Additionally Behance API with your portfolio.

You might want to check the demo here.

Picku

Awesome HTML template to showcase photographer or fashion related works.

Mocha

Mocha is an awesome html templates which brings clean, flat & bold design. It’s ideal for any portfolio. It’s very flexible and powered with Bootstrap framework.

Treviso HTML Template|

A complete and sweet HTML template for showcasing your work… All the files are included in the download including the layered PSD file that started the design off!

helios

A free responsive site template by HTML5 UP. Built on skelJS and released under the CCA license.

prologue

Prologue is a free unique and creative site template perfect for a creative agency, graphic designer, photographer, artist or anything in between. Its stunning design, carefully thought typography, patchwork grid based portfolio along with fine touches of design elements.

Fertile

Clean, pixel perfect, HTML5/CSS3 portfolio template, fertile is an amazing HTML5 template, great for portfolio and creative websites, you are free to use for your personal or client projects.

Brushed Templates

Brushed is Free One Page Responsive HTML Template based on Twitter Bootstrap Framework. It is optimized for Retina Displays. Best for studio, digital agency or creative people. Brushed is provides a powerful way to showcase your work. It is built with the HTML5 and CSS3 latest technologies, but at the same time make it compatible with older browser versions. You may use this template for both commercial and personal projects and customize this any way you like.

Type & Grids

Type & Grids, a free responsive HTML5 template by Jeremiah Shoaf. It looks great on all devices, including desktops, laptops, tablets and phones. All of the content resides in a single HTML file, so setting it up is super-simple.

Memento

Memento is a responsive theme, completely customizable, with a fresh and powerful design, corporate style, clear color, clean taste.

Effe

free HTML theme with a lot of cool features and a clean cut an minimalistic design!

Free xHTML/CSS website template

Rafi at Graphics Fuel designs a sleek minimal website and has made the XHTML/CSS template available for all. The template is available for personal or commercial use. As an added bonus, he has included the PSD file.

Minifolio

Minifolio is a minimal portfolio template, easy to customize, it contains 8 xhtml/css pages, including a portfolio page, blog page and a contact page!

ThinkSimple

ThinkSimple is a classy, corporate HTML5 and CSS3 template with a simple but eye-catching color scheme. Includes an attractive jquery image gallery.