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 13, 2025
VoiceNow: A Design for Voice Actors

VoiceNow is a new design for voice actor websites. The first thing on the page is a player, not a photograph, because a voice buyer is not casting a face.

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From the blog · Dec 10, 2025
How Your Design's Features Depend on Each Other

Here is a pattern worth recognizing, on any website and not only yours. The menu will not open. The gallery does not enlarge. The counter that should animate sits at zero.

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From the blog · Dec 6, 2025
Introducing Modernist

Modernist is a new template in the catalog. It is the most restrained design we have made and it is not for everybody, which is the point of having more than one.

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From the blog · Dec 3, 2025
Why your skills are a list, not a percentage

Web design has a habit of expressing a skill as a proportion. A bar filled four fifths of the way, a circular dial reading seventy, a row of stars with three lit.

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From the blog · Nov 29, 2025
New Cover Images for the Template Catalog

Every design in the template catalog has a new cover image, captured from the design itself with realistic content in it rather than drawn by hand.

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From the blog · Nov 26, 2025
What a Clean Page Looks Like

Most of what a browser receives is never seen by the person reading the page. It is instructions: what the page is about, how it should behave, what a search engine should make of it.

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From the blog · Nov 22, 2025
A Better Onboarding Checklist

The setup checklist on a new free actor website has been rewritten. Fewer steps, in a defensible order, with a clear finish line.

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From the blog · Nov 19, 2025
The owner panel on your own website

When you are signed in and looking at your own website, you see something your visitors do not: a small badge in the bottom-left corner carrying the brand mark.

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From the blog · Nov 15, 2025
How Backstage and YouTube Scanning Works

Press mentions works by searching a set of sources for your name on a schedule and putting what it finds in your dashboard. Backstage and YouTube are two of those sources.

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From the blog · Nov 15, 2025
Real-Time Alerts While You Work

The admin now receives updates as they happen. A message arriving while you are editing your credits shows up immediately, in the counter and in the list, without you doing anything.

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From the blog · Nov 12, 2025
How the blog page on your website lays itself out

A tiled blog layout, where posts sit in columns of uneven height and pack together instead of lining up in rigid rows, needs a layout library to do the packing.

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From the blog · Nov 8, 2025
Notification Counters Across the Admin

Counters in the admin disagreed with each other. The bell said three, the menu said one, and the tab said nothing. All three are now computed from one place and they agree.