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A red stage curtain framed by gold columns
From the blog · Jan 3, 2026
Choose Your Coming Soon Design

Coming soon is now a setting rather than a mode you get stuck in. Choose the design, write the text, switch it on, and switch it off when you are ready.

A plain kraft envelope on a white surface
From the blog · Dec 31, 2025
How an email address on your own domain works

An address on your own domain is the cheapest thing you can do that makes you look like you have been working longer than you have.

A closed red theater curtain with a gold valance
From the blog · Dec 27, 2025
Two New Coming Soon Pages

Two new coming soon designs are available. They are what your domain shows while the real site is being put together.

Hands sorting photographs on a wooden table
From the blog · Dec 24, 2025
Organizing photos and videos into categories

A working actor accumulates media faster than they expect. Two rounds of headshots, production stills from four jobs, a reel, three clips cut from the reel, behind-the-scenes photographs somebody sent you.

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 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 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.