Every Field on the Page Comes From Your Account
Everything a visitor reads on your website is drawn from your account. Your name, your bio, your location, your credits, your contact route. Pick a different design and the same information renders in a different arrangement, because the design decides the layout and your account decides the words.
Fields that are published
Your name, your bio, the location you work in and your own domain all appear on the page where a design has a place for them. Each is wrapped so that the label disappears when the field is empty, rather than printing a bare "Web:" with nothing after it. An unfinished profile should look sparse, not broken.
That is also why sections come and go. An actor with no press coverage does not get an empty press heading, and an actor with no reel does not get a player with nothing in it.
Fields that are deliberately not published
Three things your account may hold never reach the page, and the reasoning is worth stating because it is a product decision rather than an oversight.
Date of birth. It exists on your account and nothing publishes it. Age is something actors routinely withhold, and there is no version of putting it on a public page that helps you.
A phone number. There is no field for one, on purpose. A number on a public page is a number that gets scraped.
A personal email address. Even where one exists, it is the wrong default on a public actor website. The contact form exists for exactly this, and it reaches you without publishing anything.
If you want a public address anyway, the right way to do it is an address on your own domain, which you can retire later without changing your personal mailbox.
Read your own site as a stranger
This is worth thirty minutes once a year regardless of platform. Open your site on a phone, in a private window, and read it end to end the way somebody who has never met you would.
Look for anything that is out of date rather than anything that is wrong: a credit you have overtaken, a bio written for a different casting bracket, a location you have moved from. Those are the things an owner stops seeing, because you navigate your own site through the parts you are proud of.
The rest of that checklist is in keeping an actor website fresh: a current headshot, a reel near the top, and contact details that reach you.
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