FAQs

This section is used to view all the incoming messages from your website. If a visitor fills out the contact form on the "Contact" page of your website, the message will be sent directly to this section. You will also be alerted that you have a message via email. You may then ignore and delete the message or you can respond to it using your email client.

This feature is available to actors with a premium membership. Use this page to view the graph of unique visitors over the past 2 weeks, as well as to see which pages were viewed and how many times. You can also see which websites have referred visitors to you and how many times. Finally, you can see where your visitors are coming from geographically by seeing the number of total views and city and state of your visitors, or city and country for international visitors.

This section is used to advertise any awards you might have received within your profession. If you do not have any awards, simply skip this page completely. If you do have one or more, you can list them in here by populating the name of the award, organization offering this award and year that this award was obtained. If this is related to a project that you were a part of, also list the name of the project. All of your awards will be shown on the "More" page of your website.

This may be the biggest part of your website. Here you should add the list of all the projects that you were a part of. We recommend adding all projects, no matter how small. If you do not want the project to show on your website, you can always hide it, but if you then want to build a resume with an option to show this project, you will be able to do so. Populate all fields to the best of your ability, but if you do not know something, just leave it blank. The only mandatory fields are "Title / Role", "Project" and "Dates", but we recommend at least adding the director's name and the category of the project.

This section is used to add any audio files that could be used to represent your vocal abilities. Whether you want to show off your singing voice, your talking voice, foreign language skills, or your accent — this is the place to do so. Simply fill out the title of your audio file and a description and upload the file to your website.

Adding videos could not be simpler. Enter the title and the description of your video and then paste in the link to your video. Currently we support YouTube video embedding and Vimeo video embedding. Any non-supported link formats will be added to the system and listed in the "More" page under the "Links" section. If you need other service support added to the Videos section, please send us a request and we will do all the research necessary to see if it is possible to add this feature.

Adding photos is very simple. When ready, either drag and drop all of the images into the "Multiple Photos Uploader" tool or, if you choose to do so, you may upload each image individually, in which case you would be able to enter the label and description for each image right away. When you edit each image, once again you have the option to enter a new label and description, but you can also mark the image as "Featured" or "Main". There can only be one "Main" image. This image will be used in your Resume, within the Control Panel, and on your website (different locations depending on your website layout). Marking the image as "Featured" will give that image higher priority, and if your website includes an image slideshow or featured images presentation, these images will be used. You can also sort the photos to your liking. Simply click the "Enable Sorting" button under the section menu and drag the photos to order them as you need them.

To select which image is your primary image, simply go to your gallery, open any specific image by clicking the "pen" icon, and select the toggle that says "Profile Photo". Once you do that, you will see the notification that says "Profile Photo" show up on the image you selected next to the image label. The change is instant and there's no need to press the save button.

Only available to actors with a website plan. Do you have an event coming up and want people to know about it? This section is used to list all of your upcoming and past events alike. If the event is taking place in the future, this event will be advertised on your homepage with optional location, link, date and time. If the event happened before, but you still want it to appear on your website, keep it toggled to "Show Event" and it will be shown on the "More" page of your website.

This feature is available to actors with a premium membership. This section is used to connect your website to your social media pages, your IMDB page, and any other link that you may be interested in advertising. Social media links will show up in different locations, depending on your website layout (usually in the footer), while all of your custom links will be added to the "More" page of your website within the "Links" section.

This section is used to populate the list of schools you graduated from or are currently a part of. This includes actual schools such as colleges and professional training/classes you might have partaken in. For schools, add the school's name and ZIP code, your major, and years attended. If you obtained a degree from this school, select the option from the list. For training, there is an additional option to add teacher names and category. Select the primary category for the class you attended. If the class was focusing on two different categories (i.e. dance and theater), add the class twice with different categories. If you do not remember teacher names, just leave it blank.

This section is used to list all of your professional and non-professional skills. Do not forget to rate yourself on those skills on a scale from 1 star to 10 stars (1 being the weakest and 10 being the strongest). Whatever you feel are your strongest abilities, mark them as "Featured". Those actors with a website plan will be able to see these skills listed on the home page. Skills marked as "Standard" will be listed below the languages section on your "Experience" page, while those marked as "Hidden" will not show on the website, but will be taken under consideration for search purposes.

This section is used to edit your basic information. Populate your name, title, date of birth and physical attributes. Change your password and contact information and write out a few words about yourself in the bio section. If you do not want certain information to be listed, simply leave it blank, or in case of numeric values set it to 0, and the information will not be shown anywhere. Location can also be added on this page. Simply enter the ZIP code of the location where you are available for work — one ZIP code per city is recommended. Then you can toggle your choice of primary location. This is the location that will be shown on the map on your website.

This section is used to update the list of the languages you speak and to claim your ethnic background. You can select how well you speak a given language on a scale from 1 to 10 (1 being the weakest and 10 being the strongest). If you want to list your accent, do it in the "Skills" section instead. As far as ethnicity goes, some people may look like they may belong to other ethnic groups. If you want to advertise that, you may select multiple ethnicities and select "Native" for your own.

You can see basic analytics for your website from your Dashboard. Here you can see a graph demonstrating how many visitors your website received in the last two weeks, as well as where the visitors came from. This feature is available to premium members only.

Hidden skills are skills that may not be necessary to have visible on your website, but you'd still like to have a record of them. A good example would be "driver's license."  You probably don't want it listed on your website or resume, however, if someone does a search for "actor with New York state driver's license" you still want to show up in results.

Yes. Once you're in the Photos, Videos, or Audio section of the control panel, there will be a green button in the left column that says "enable sorting." Once you click it, the files in the list will start to shake or wiggle. That is an indicator that you can now sort them. Drag them in the order you'd like and that order will be reflected on your website.

Not every template currently supports social media feeds, but as a premium member, you have access to a few templates that do. Simply populate your social media usernames in the links section, enable the social media feed on the settings page and our algorithms will populate your latest tweets and posts right on your website!

All thumbnails are created automatically. We want to ensure that every single website is fully optimized to the maximum so we enforce resizing of the images to match the size that's being used by a website. In addition, most images will be converted to the ".webp" format which are smaller in size and load up much faster. If you need help creating a specific thumbnail images for your website, contact us and we will gladly crop the images for you so that everything looks exactly the way you need it to.

Adding a resume is very simple on Web For Actors and can be done here. If you are a premium member, you have two options available to you. You can either upload a PDF file that contains your resume or you can generate a smart, self-updating resume using our Resume Maker Pro tool.

You can change your union status right from your profile page. If you are a member of more than one union, you can choose a second union to be listed on the website. Unfortunately, we do not offer listings of three or more unions. If you need help selecting a union or you do not see your union listed, please contact us and we will review and add missing items as needed.

All nameservers and any other DNS settings are set by our team internally. We do not offer to host external websites, nor do we allow our code to be used externally. If you need to change your domain hosting and transfer nameservers, please downgrade your account or shut down your website and you will receive domain transfer-out details via email.

A custom domain for your website (for example: yourname.com) is available to all premium accounts (renewal fees are included in your membership fees). All renewals are done automatically and you don't have to worry about remembering to renew your domain. The only way your domain can expire is due to non-payment, but we will not let your domain expire without notifying you first, so rest assured your domain is safe with us. If you need to transfer your domain out, you can downgrade your account or shut down your website and you will receive domain transfer-out details via email.

Yes. Once you're in the Photos, Videos, or Audio section of the control panel, there will be a green button in the left column that says "enable sorting." Once you click it, the files in the list will start to shake or wiggle. That is an indicator that you can now sort them. Drag them in the order you'd like and that order will be reflected on your website.