The Web For Actors blog

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

The face of an ornate antique clock
From the blog · Dec 20, 2025
Voicebox, Optimized

Voicebox has been rebuilt. It looks essentially the same and it weighs about a fifth of what it did. If you use it, you do not need to do anything.

Sunrise over a wide mountain range
From the blog · Dec 17, 2025
How the slideshow on your home page loads its images

Several designs open with a full-width slideshow. It is a good look for an actor, because it lets you lead with an image rather than with text.

A condenser microphone in a dark recording booth
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.

A hand stopping a falling row of dominoes
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.

A very plain white room with a single chair
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.

A musician holding a guitar in warm light
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.

Framed prints on a plain wall
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.

A single red pencil on dark wood
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.

A hand ticking items off a checklist
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.

Someone looking at a laptop on a sofa at home
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.

A satellite dish against a blue sky
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.

Concentric ripples spreading on still water
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.