What is a good acting website

A good acting website, should be a very simple layout, and very clean.  The pages that you really need are the following:

Home page – Introduction of who you are and what you do.

Bio – Which is the one page of you!  Who you are, what are your dreams, and where have you come from, and why are you a great actor.

Resume – Just like the one on the back of your head shot, same format, and have the ability to print it right from your website

Photos – do not over do a photo gallery, put up your main shots that you have on your 8 x 10′s and maybe 10 more, that show you much different than the others.  You want variety… do not put up 100 of them either, as its just too much.

Contact – a way for people to reach you… and for god sake do not put your address or phone number, have them send you an email.

Mailing list – so you can inform everyone that signs up what your next appearance will be.

Demo reel – Where you can show at least one 3-5 minute reel of what you have done.  And maybe eve have two or three, but no more than that.  You can also and should also put up your voice reel if you have one.

That really about covers it.  You do not want that site in 100% flash, otherwise no search engine will list you and it will be harder to find you.  And you need to register your name as you .com or .net address.  Do not use this site for anything other than your acting career… if you want more than this build another site.

Hope this helps!  Again the ONE PLACE I have found that does all of this right for $19.95 per month is here:  MYACTINGSITE

Here is a good example of a great website

Here is a good example of a poor website

- Frank

 

actor website template

Interesting topic…  here is the funny part… if you are an actor you need a web site… but you do not want your site to look like everyone else’s site?  OK… but you are an actor and you have a a head shot and a resume and guess what… it looks like everyone else’s, except for the data inside.

 A web site template is smart, why? because not only does it save you a ton of money and ton of time, but it has been well defined in the industry of what is exactly needed on an “Actors Website”.

The key elements of the site are the following:

A home page, which introduces you to the world.

A Bio page, which give s the nuts and bolts of who you are and why you are an actor.

A resume page, which shows all of your work, and can be EASILY printed right from your website.

A photo gallery page, which shows you off.

A demo reel page, which shows your demo reel to the world, but is big enough too be seen well, and downloads FAST.

And pages to get ahold of you and keep people interested in you. like a contact page, and a mailing list page.

The layout of the site should be EASY to navigate, and the color schemes should fit your look and feel.

I looked at all kinds of places for a web site before going to myactingsite.com but to be honest they are the absolute best, and have like 40-50 different overall looks or “Templates” for you to choose from, and if you decide to change it… its free…  And they add new ones all the time.

I had a quote from a good firm of $5500.00 to make this kind of site for me on a custom basis… well for that kind of money if you have it go for it, but for the rest of us $20.00 per month is kind of easy.

There is nothing cooler than having your own website, and showing yourself off to the world, and getting auditions as a result of having one.

The idea that your site will be the same as someone else is not a good idea… I hope this helps.

-Frank