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 · Nov 5, 2025
Backgrounds, grayscale, and choosing nothing at all

Interfaces are usually good at letting you pick something and bad at letting you go back to nothing. Picking a background was one click.

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From the blog · Nov 1, 2025
Visitor Messages in Your Dashboard

Messages sent through your contact form are now stored in your dashboard as well as emailed to you. They can be read, marked, replied to and searched from one screen.

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From the blog · Oct 25, 2025
Follow Your Ranking Over Time

The ranking panel introduced in STARmeter tracking now draws a full history: weekly, monthly or yearly, with your own credits and press items marked on the line.

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From the blog · Oct 18, 2025
STARmeter Tracking for Actors

Your dashboard now tracks your industry ranking and keeps the history, so you can see the direction of travel rather than whatever the number happens to be on the day you look.

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From the blog · Oct 11, 2025
Newsletter Signups on Your Website

You can drop a newsletter signup onto any page of your free actor website.

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From the blog · Oct 4, 2025
Mailchimp and Constant Contact Newsletters

Your actor website can now feed signups directly into Mailchimp or Constant Contact. Connect the account, choose the list, and anybody who signs up on your site is added to it.

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From the blog · Sep 27, 2025
Connect Your Blog: WordPress, Medium and Ghost

If you already write somewhere else, you can connect it. Posts from WordPress, Medium, Ghost, Substack and anything else publishing a standard feed will appear on your actor website as a blog section on your own domain.

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From the blog · Sep 20, 2025
Instagram Feeds on Actor Websites

You can now connect an Instagram account and show a grid of your most recent posts on any page of your actor website. The real argument for this Not that a feed is beautiful.

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From the blog · Sep 13, 2025
Turn a Mention Into a Press Item

Every result in your Mentions panel has an Add to Press control. It creates a press item with the outlet, headline, date and link already filled in.

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From the blog · Sep 6, 2025
Press Mentions: We Search the Web for You

There is a new Mentions panel in your dashboard. We search for coverage of you across news, reviews, blogs, podcasts and video, and put what we find in front of you.

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From the blog · Aug 30, 2025
Your Contact Details, One Place

Your contact details now live in exactly one place. Your contact page, your email signature, your business card, your press kit and your generated resume all read from it.

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From the blog · Aug 23, 2025
Business Card Layouts, Refreshed

The card layouts have been redrawn. There are six now, all of them tested at actual print size rather than designed on a screen at four times the size they will ever be seen at.