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website help Change The Look of Your Actor WebsiteSkinning Tutorial (video)

Change The Look of Your Actor Website


This tutorial will guide you on how to modify the layout of your websites, switch between different colors, select your own color, select backgrounds gradients, tiles and overlays.

domain help Forward Your Domain to your Actor Website (video)

You can forward your domain name with masking, which means your domain stays at GoDaddy, but it redirects to your actor website. You will have to update a title and the description for this option.

domain help Transfer Your Domain from GoDaddy (video)

Transferring your domain name from GoDaddy is pretty simple. Don't forget to email us the authorization code when done. Feel free to forward it to info@iadb.com

  1. To begin your transfer, go to godaddy.com and log into your account
  2. Click on your name in the upper right corner and select "Manage My Domains"
  3. Find your domain name, click the gear in the upper right corner and select "Domain Settings"
  4. Scroll down to "Domain lock" and make sure it is "off"
  5. Click "Transfer domain away from GoDaddy" on the bottom of the page
  6. Select "Other" from select box and type in "WHOIS" then click "Continue with transfer"
  7. Go back to "Domain Settings" and click "Get authorization code" you'll see that the code has been sent to your email address.

Send us the authorization code and we will begin the transfer process.

domain help Send your emails from gmail (video)

This tutorial will teach you how to connect your gmail to your webmail inbox so that you can send your emails from gmail.

  1. To begin go to your gmail inbox, locate the gear icon and select "Settings"
  2. In the top menu select Accounts and Import
  3. Then select "Add another email address you own"
  4. Type in your new email address, uncheck "Treat as an alias" and click "Next Step"
  5. Username is your email address again, and password is what we've provided you with
  6. Now, you will get a "Gmail Confirmation" email, copy the confirmation code and paste it back in the form that's asking for it
  7. Click "Verify"

That's it, now you can select a different email address in your "From" field in gmail.

fonts help Website - FontsIADB Tutorial (video)

There are millions of styling combinations that can be done for your actor website. A big chunk of it is an ability of changing fonts for your headings and paragraphs. Simply update the font for your website by selecting your options from the dropdown menu. Your preview sample will be automatically populated, so that you can see the changes instantly instead of going back and forth between your control panel and your actor website. Once your selection is made, you are done, simply reload your website to see the affected text.

messages help Website - MessagesIADB Tutorial (video)

Probably the most important part of your actor website is an ability for your visitors to contact you. Some might note down your phone number and give you a call, others prefer direct email contact, yet others might contact your agent instead, but more than often, people will prefer to send you a quick note through the contact form. When they do, your control panel inbox will be updated and you will receive numerous notifications. Watch this video to see how to spot new messages coming from your actor website.

Skinning Tutorial - Change The Look of Your Actor Website ENLARGE

designs help Skinning Tutorial - Change The Look of Your Actor Website

IADB Tutorial - Website - Fonts ENLARGE

fonts help IADB Tutorial - Website - Fonts

Settings: Statistics ENLARGE

statistics help Settings: Statistics

Only available to actors with a website plan. Use this page to view the graph of unique visitors over the past 2 weeks, to see which pages were viewed and how many times. You can also see which websites have referred visitors to you and how many times and finally you can see where your visitors are coming from geographically by seeing the number of total views and city and state of your visitor, or city and country for international visitors.

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