Features posts

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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.

An open portfolio on a desk with glasses and a pen
From the blog · May 9, 2026
Presskit Pages for Every Actor

Every account now has a press kit page, built automatically from material already on your site.

Colored network cables being connected to a panel
From the blog · May 6, 2026
How a Design Reads Your Account

A design in the catalog is a purchased theme with your account wired into it. That wiring is the work.

Hands marking a route on a printed road map
From the blog · May 2, 2026
Apple Maps on Your Contact Page

Contact pages can now carry a map. It uses Apple's mapping service, which for our purposes has two advantages: it does not require you to create an account with anybody, and it does not load a tracking script onto your visitors.

Woodworking tools laid out on fresh pine
From the blog · Apr 29, 2026
How a Design Gets Into the Catalog

Most designs in the catalog begin life as a purchased theme. A theme is a set of HTML pages with a stylesheet, sold to whoever wants it, and in that state it is not a design you could use.

Connect Your Own Domain
From the blog · Apr 25, 2026
Connect Your Own Domain

If you own a domain, you can point it at your actor website. Add it in your settings, make one change at your registrar, and it goes live once the change propagates.

A blank hanging shop sign on a wall bracket
From the blog · Apr 18, 2026
Domain Availability Checker

There is a domain checker in your admin now. Type a name, see whether it is available across the extensions worth having, and get alternatives when it is not.

Two empty picture frames lit on a gallery wall
From the blog · Apr 15, 2026
Alt Text on Every Image

Every image on your website carries a text description. It is invisible to most visitors and it does three jobs, and the first of them is the reason it is not optional.