Built Around a Player, Not a Photo Gallery
VoiceNow is a new design for voice actor websites. The first thing on the page is a player, not a photograph, because a voice buyer is not casting a face.
The mismatch it fixes
Every general actor template assumes the visitor wants to see you. For screen work that is correct. For voice work it is the wrong assumption end to end, and a voice actor using a photo-led template ends up with their demos three scrolls down, under a large picture of somebody the buyer will never see.
A producer with eleven tabs open and a spot to cast wants to press play within two seconds of arriving. Anything else on the page is in the way.
What the design does
- Player first, full width. Your primary demo, ready to play, above everything.
- Categories as tabs. Commercial, narration, character, audiobook, each one click away. Built on audio playlists.
- Waveform display. So a listener can skip into the middle of a demo, which is what they will do.
- A booking line always visible. Availability, turnaround and how to reach you, fixed in view.
- Your studio setup, stated plainly. Microphone, interface, treatment, and which remote direction systems you can join. Buyers genuinely filter on this.
- A photograph, small, further down. Not absent. Just not first.
The studio panel is the underrated part
Most voice actor sites bury their technical setup or omit it. For anything above hobby level it is a qualifying question: can this person deliver broadcast-quality audio from their own room, today, and can they be directed live. A site that answers that in a fixed panel saves an email exchange and occasionally wins the job outright.
Speed matters more here than usual
Audio pages are heavy if built carelessly. Nothing loads until a play button is pressed, so the page appears instantly even with five playlists on it. The reasoning is the same as in the video gallery rebuild.
Related
Our other voice-first design was rebuilt too, covered in Voicebox, optimized. For getting your audio in, see connecting SoundCloud. Older reading: where to post a voice demo.
Create a free actor website and pick VoiceNow from the catalog.
