You can now set a background texture on any template: paper, linen, concrete, fine grain, and a handful of others. It sits behind your content and changes nothing about the layout.
Every design now has a grayscale switch. On, and the whole site renders in black and white: photographs, accents, everything.
Coming soon is now a setting rather than a mode you get stuck in. Choose the design, write the text, switch it on, and switch it off when you are ready.
Two new coming soon designs are available. They are what your domain shows while the real site is being put together.
Modernist is a new template in the catalog. It is the most restrained design we have made and it is not for everybody, which is the point of having more than one.
Every design in the template catalog has a new cover image, captured from the design itself with realistic content in it rather than drawn by hand.
The setup checklist on a new free actor website has been rewritten. Fewer steps, in a defensible order, with a clear finish line.
The admin now receives updates as they happen. A message arriving while you are editing your credits shows up immediately, in the counter and in the list, without you doing anything.
Counters in the admin disagreed with each other. The bell said three, the menu said one, and the tab said nothing. All three are now computed from one place and they agree.
Messages sent through your contact form are now stored in your dashboard as well as emailed to you. They can be read, marked, replied to and searched from one screen.
You can drop a newsletter signup onto any page of your free actor website.
Your actor website can now feed signups directly into Mailchimp or Constant Contact. Connect the account, choose the list, and anybody who signs up on your site is added to it.