The Web For Actors blog

Announcements, tips and the occasional argument about what an actor website is for.

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From the blog · Dec 21, 2024
Photo Categories for Actor Portfolios

Photos on your actor portfolio website can now be sorted into named categories. Each becomes its own gallery, with its own heading, in the order you choose.

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From the blog · Dec 14, 2024
Notification Preferences You Control

There is now one screen listing every kind of message your actor website can send you, with a switch for email and a switch for the dashboard against each. Set it once.

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From the blog · Dec 7, 2024
Your Website Statistics, Refreshed

The statistics screen has been rebuilt around three questions: how many people came, what did they look at, and how did they find you.

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From the blog · Nov 30, 2024
A Safer Way to Delete a Page

A small change with an outsized effect: deleting a page from your actor website now requires you to mean it, and the admin offers to hide the page instead, because hiding is what people almost always actually want.

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From the blog · Nov 23, 2024
Custom Pages: Write Anything You Like

The standard pages on an actor website cover what every actor needs. Custom pages cover what only you need. Add one, name it, write on it, and it appears in your menu like any other page.

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From the blog · Nov 16, 2024
Upload a Thumbnail for Any Page

Any page on your actor website can now carry its own thumbnail. It shows up wherever that page is listed: card layouts on the home page, image menus on the designs that use them, and the internal previews in your admin.

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From the blog · Nov 9, 2024
Control How Your Site Looks When Shared

Paste a link to your actor website into a message, a post or an email and the platform builds a little preview card: an image, a title, a line of text.

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From the blog · Nov 2, 2024
Per-Page SEO Titles and Descriptions

Until now your whole site shared one search title and one description. Every page of your actor website can now have its own, written by you, in a field on the page itself.

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From the blog · Oct 26, 2024
Drag to Reorder Your Menu

Grab a page in your pages list, drag it, drop it. That is the whole feature.

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From the blog · Oct 19, 2024
Pages and Menu, Now in One Place

Pages and navigation used to be two different ideas in the admin, which meant creating a page and then going somewhere else to make it visible. They are now one screen.

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From the blog · Oct 12, 2024
Rich Text Editing on Every Page

Every text area in the admin now has a real editor attached to it. You can bold a word, add a link, build a list and set a subheading, and what you see while typing is what appears on your actor website.

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From the blog · Oct 5, 2024
Your Profile, Rebuilt

Your profile is the source of almost everything on your actor website. It fills your bio page, your header, your contact details, your email signature and your press kit.