Vertically align title page in latex

Question

I want to vertically align document title and names in title page. My current LaTeX looks like this:

\documentclass[a4paper]{article}
\title{ ... }}
\author{ ... }
\date{{ ... }}
\begin{document}
\begin{titlepage}
\maketitle
\end{titlepage}
\end{document}

But this shows the content somewhat in top half part of the doc. I want to center it vertically. This post asks to use \vplace. But I am not able to figure out how to use \vplace in title page.

I tried

\begin{vplace}[1]
\begin{titlepage}
\maketitle
\end{titlepage}
\end{vplace}

and also

\begin{vplace}[1]
\title{ ... }}
\author{ ... }
\date{{ ... }}
\end{vplace}

But it is giving error like Environment vplace undefined. It seems that it requires memoir class. But overleaf does not recognize memoir document class. How can I achieve same in document class?

Answer 1

The titling package has tools to customize the maketitle command. Here is an example:

\documentclass[a4paper]{article}
\usepackage{showframe}
\renewcommand{\ShowFrameLinethickness}{0.3pt}
\usepackage{titling}
\setlength{\droptitle}{-9.5ex}
\renewcommand{\maketitlehooka}{\vfill\bfseries}
\renewcommand{\maketitlehookb}{\normalfont}
\renewcommand{\maketitlehookd}{\vfill\clearpage}
\title{The Quangle-Wangle’s Hat}
\author{Edward Lear}
\date{(1876)}
\begin{document}
\begin{titlingpage}
\maketitle
\end{titlingpage}
\end{document} 

Answer 2

Personally I would for TiKz since there is better control over alignment(my perspective) and calc code is easier to comprehend for me -- for the TiKz option please see the edit

Vertically Center title page : Article

\documentclass[]{article}
\title{Project Title}
\date{2016-31-01}
\author{Author Name}
%\usepackage[showframe]{geometry}
\usepackage{titling}
\renewcommand\maketitlehooka{\null\mbox{}\vfill}
\renewcommand\maketitlehookd{\vfill\null}
\begin{document}
\begin{titlingpage}
    \maketitle
\end{titlingpage}


\end{document} 

EDIT ---title page with tikz

Formatting a title page, using Tikz

\documentclass{article}
\usepackage{tikz}
\usetikzlibrary{calc}
\begin{document}
\begin{titlepage}
\begin{tikzpicture}[remember picture, overlay]
  \draw[line width = 2pt] ($(current page.north west) + (1in,-1in)$) 
  rectangle ($(current page.south east) + (-1in,1in)$);
  \draw[line width = 1pt, blue] ($(current page.center) + (-1in,0in)$) -- 
    ($(current page.center) + (1in,0in)$)nodepos=0.5,above{%
    \textbf{\LARGE Escola Secundária Domingos Sequeira}\[4.5cm]
  };
\end{tikzpicture}
\vfill
% Bottom of the page
\centering{\bf \large \today}
\end{titlepage}
\end{document}