Your Navigation Order Is Yours. Move Any Page Up or Down in a Click
Grab a page in your pages list, drag it, drop it. That is the whole feature. Your menu updates immediately on your live actor website, in the mobile menu, and anywhere else the navigation appears.
Menu order is a real decision
It looks like housekeeping. It is closer to editing. The order of your menu tells a first-time visitor what you think is important about yourself, and most people read the first two items and then start scanning.
Consider who is actually visiting. A casting director with forty submissions open in forty tabs is not going to read your biography. They want to see you move and hear you speak, and then they want to know your representation. A journalist writing a profile wants the opposite: the bio and the press page first. A director you met at a festival wants the current project.
You cannot satisfy all three with one order, so choose the one you get most of. For the overwhelming majority of actors, that is casting, and that means the reel goes near the front.
A defensible default order
- Home
- Reel or Video
- Photos
- Resume or Credits
- About
- Press, if you have any
- Contact
That is not a rule. It is a starting point that fails less often than the alternatives. If your strongest asset is a body of stage work rather than screen work, credits move up. If you are primarily a voice actor, your audio moves to position two and your photos move down, because nobody books a voice from a headshot.
What moving a page does not break
Reordering changes only the menu. The address of each page stays the same, so any link you have already shared, printed on a card or put in a signature keeps working. Bookmarks survive. Search engines are unaffected, though a page promoted to the top of the menu does tend to be treated as slightly more important over time, which is a small argument for putting your best page there.
The mobile menu follows
There is no separate mobile order to maintain. The list you set is the list a phone shows, which matters because most first visits to an actor website happen on a phone and a phone menu shows fewer items before you have to scroll. On a small screen the first three items carry almost all the traffic.
Related
This sits on top of the combined pages and menu screen. Two things we know are still missing, and are working on: two-level menus for when ordering alone stops helping, and external links for a menu item that should send somebody off-site entirely.
Not built a site yet? Start free at create an actor website and you can rearrange it as often as you like.
