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A spirit level held against a beam
From the blog · Mar 25, 2026
How Image Dimensions Keep Your Layout Steady

You open a page, start reading, go to tap a link, and everything moves down the screen a fraction of a second before your finger lands. You tap the wrong thing.

Photographing products in a small studio setup
From the blog · Mar 21, 2026
Product Categories and Images

Products in your store can be grouped into categories, each with several images, a description and a sort order.

A wooden signpost with two arms against the sky
From the blog · Mar 18, 2026
Menus Built From Your Account

The navigation on your website is built from the pages in your account. Add a page and it appears. Rename it and the label changes. Reorder it and the menu follows.

Folded clothing and accessories laid out
From the blog · Mar 14, 2026
Sell Merchandise From Your Actor Website

You can now list things for sale on your actor website. Products, categories, images and descriptions, presented on a page in your own design rather than on a platform somewhere else.

A stack of smooth black stones in balance
From the blog · Mar 11, 2026
How Font Loading Keeps Your Layout Still

When a page uses a downloaded font, the text is painted first in whatever font is already on the device, then repainted when the real one arrives.

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 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.