The Web For Actors blog

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

Hand tools arranged in a neat flat lay
From the blog · Mar 7, 2026
Faster Stylesheets on Every Design

Two related improvements. Stylesheets are considerably smaller, and a change you make in your design settings shows up immediately rather than whenever your browser decides to look again.

Overlapping sheets of colored paper
From the blog · Mar 4, 2026
How Your Stylesheets Are Assembled

Every design in the catalog carries its own stylesheet, and what reaches a visitor is not the file a theme author wrote.

A red handrail running alongside a staircase
From the blog · Feb 28, 2026
Sticky Navigation on Premium Designs

Premium designs now offer a sticky menu: it stays at the top of the window as the visitor scrolls, instead of disappearing after the first screen.

A hand feeding paper into a typewriter
From the blog · Feb 25, 2026
Custom Pages, Exactly as You Wrote Them

Type a numbered list in the editor and a numbered list appears on your website. Bold text stays bold, a heading stays a heading, and a paragraph break stays a paragraph break.

Close inspection work under a lamp
From the blog · Feb 21, 2026
Custom JavaScript, Safely Reviewed

You can now add custom JavaScript to your actor website. Unlike custom CSS, it does not go live immediately. It is reviewed first, usually within a working day.

A balance scale with brass weights
From the blog · Feb 18, 2026
Smaller Images, Same Quality

Every image on every page of all 97 designs passes through a single place that decides how hard it is compressed. That setting moved one step down.

A developer at monitors showing code
From the blog · Feb 14, 2026
Custom CSS for Advanced Users

There is now a custom stylesheet box in your design settings. What you write there is applied to your site after everything else, so it can override any rule in the design.

A simple latch on a weathered green door
From the blog · Feb 11, 2026
Two Security Headers on Every Customer Site

Two headers now go out with every page of every customer site. nosniff stops a browser from guessing that a response is a web page when the declared type says it is an image.

A yellow folding ruler fanned out
From the blog · Feb 7, 2026
Size Picker: Control Your Layout Width

Every design now offers three content widths: full, which uses the whole window, contained, which is the traditional centered column, and narrow, which is tighter still.

Two road arrows pointing in opposite directions
From the blog · Feb 4, 2026
Caching by Who Is Asking

Caching is what makes a website fast: a page is built once and the built copy is handed to everybody who asks for it, instead of being assembled from scratch every time.

A pile of wooden letterpress letters
From the blog · Jan 31, 2026
Font Choices for Actor Websites

There is now a font setting on every design: a curated set of pairings, each one a heading face and a body face that are known to work together.

Printed sheets clipped to a board
From the blog · Jan 28, 2026
The Press Kit, and Who Gets the Footer Credit

A press kit is the single link you send when somebody needs your material and you do not want to send five attachments.