The Web For Actors blog

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

Light trails from traffic on a city road at night
From the blog · Jun 20, 2026
Faster Page Loads Across All Designs

A pass over every design in the catalog for weight and request count. The typical page is now around a fifth of what it was.

A card being used at a payment terminal on a desk
From the blog · Jun 17, 2026
Your Billing Tab and Checkout

The Billing tab holds everything about what you pay: which plan you are on, the card on file, your invoice history, and a checkout if you want to change any of it.

A wall of dials and switches on a control panel
From the blog · Jun 13, 2026
Link Monitoring Across Your Site

Every request for an address that does not exist is recorded: what was asked for, where the visitor came from, and how often it happens. Patterns raise an alert.

Sheets of colored felt layered in a row
From the blog · Jun 10, 2026
Signature Icons: Sizes, Order and Color

The icons in your email signature are the part people actually click, so they get their own set of controls rather than being whatever the layout decided. Five things are yours to set.

A set of railway points where two tracks divide
From the blog · Jun 6, 2026
How Your Page URLs Are Built

Every page on your website has its own address, and the shape of it is deliberately plain: your account name, then the name of the page.

Dozens of carved wooden printing blocks, each a different pattern
From the blog · Jun 3, 2026
Pick the Social Icon Set Your Site Wears

Your social links are drawn in one of several artwork sets, and until now the set was decided entirely by whichever design you were on.

A single key resting on a polished purple stone
From the blog · May 30, 2026
How a Password Reset Reaches You

You click Forgot Password, the page says the email is on its way, and nothing appears in your inbox.

The brass mechanism of an old meter
From the blog · May 27, 2026
What Past Due Actually Means

When a card on file expires, the payment gateway retries on a schedule rather than giving up immediately.

Brass seal stamps on a wooden desk
From the blog · May 23, 2026
Favicons Generated From Your Initials

Every site now has a favicon: the small icon in a browser tab, a bookmark and a phone home screen.

A neat stack of paper seen edge on
From the blog · May 20, 2026
The Links Page, Rebuilt Compact

The social links list runs to about thirty rows, stacked two to a line.

An architectural floor plan viewed from above
From the blog · May 16, 2026
Automatic Sitemaps

Your actor website now generates and maintains its own sitemap. Add a page and it appears in it. Change a page and its date updates. Hide a page and it comes out.

A hand reaching for one of many keys hanging on strings
From the blog · May 13, 2026
Two Add-Ons Unlock Everything

The rule, in full: Two or more add-ons gets you every tool on the platform, including ones that do not exist yet. Exactly one gets you the tool that add-on is for.