I need to build WEBSITE for Band....

[dicblack]

Wassup people,
I anned to create a website for band and wanted to know are there any easy ways of doing this? I just want something basic just to show photos and stream songs from the band or bands that are coming out.

[glynb]

If it's something really basic why not just use 'Soundclick' or similar hosting sites? They are free, and you can post music, a biography, and a picture or two.

[dicblack]

I want something a little more pearsonal than soundclick and i wan tmore control of the content. Thanks anyway though
Anyother advice would be great

[grn]

well you need a host (http://www.freewebspace.net) and you need to know some basic HTML code... (http://www.htmlgoodies.com/primers/primer_1.html)... or I can make one for $10.

[RousseauBABA]

u can try freewebs...chack out www.freewebs.com ...they give u a web space for free...u can make ur own page n upload it ...or they have some templates...u can use them too...hope that helps...

Peace...

[pM of impk21.co]

Depending on what resourses you have. I would look into getting a representable website put together. Not saying ours is the bomb, but a website represents the Artist/group/label/etc! The more serious it is, the more people will come back and be willing to check it out, my opinion! Either way most of us are limited with resources and on budgets. So any advice I could give you would be, once you get it going, update it frequently, like once a week, twice a week if possible! From experience, if you dont update ur site with something, people tend to lose interest and the site tends to lack activeness!

PM

[Keif]

If you want a quick and easy way to build a website you should check out Bandzoogle.com. It's basically a web design tool that makes it easy to build a website and make changes to it. I built mine in 5 minutes and it's pretty sweet.

[Love & Light]

Originally Posted by RousseauBABA

u can try freewebs...chack out www.freewebs.com ...they give u a web space for free...u can make ur own page n upload it ...or they have some templates...u can use them too...hope that helps...

Peace...

Yeah, we done ours on Freewebs.....decent enough and free (as the name suggests)

http://www.freewebs.com/captainkennedy

[Recording Chick]

Yeah, what Kief said. Bandzoogle.com rocks. I know nothing about web design and got my whole site up very quickly. Check my site out and you can see what can be done at bandzoogle. The tech support is also superb.

[melodiousmonk]

Having a good web site to represent your band is important. I would look around online at the free ones everybody suggested. But, if you want a more serious web site you should learn HTML. It's really not that hard and I learned from HTML Goodies. These days, you need to be able to make a decent web page because that will be an important method of advertising for your band.

[Scottgman]

Here's two things to keep in mind:

a) If you use these free places, you usually will get stuck with a crappy web address (URL). Can you imagine going to a gig and announcing "come visit our bands website at:"

ww.freewebsites.com/Customers/CheapPennyPinchers/YourBandNameHere


You really need to make it easy on people to remember. Thus, you need to buy your own URL. If your band name is already taken as a web address, then just add "music" or "band" to the end of your band name. For example, if you band was named The Beatles (), you might want to get a URL like: TheBeatlesBand.com or TheBeatlesMusic.com (since TheBeatles.com is probably already taken). It's pretty cheap too, something like $35 a year. Many web hosting companies will offer package deals to host your site and purchase/renew your URL.

b) Content. People might visit your site once or twice. But if it's always the same old content, they won't return. You have to find creative ways of updating your website on a regular basis. Add new pictures from each gig. Maybe setup a "Friends of the Band" picture page. This will encourage people to tell others about your band's website. "Hey we partied hard last Friday night. Go to Band X's website and check out the pictures!"

In my old band, the drummer and I used to write weekly or bi-weekly beer reviews. Nothing major, just some humerous commentary on different beers we drank over the weekend. I had several people tell me the beer reviews were the only reason they frequented our site.

Blogs are another easy way to add fresh content. Give each band member their own blog on the website.

Just some stuff to ponder!

[lykwydchykyn]

I agree with scott. Spend a little money and do it right. You can get a URL for the price of a large pizza these days (man, back when I was doing the band thing it was like $70 a year, and hosting about $20 a month!). If this is a serious band whatsoever, there's no reason not to drop the $35-$50 a year for your own hosting/URL. I use Bananic.com for a couple of sites, but there are some other decent hosting companies in that price range.

[wang191]

I run a small business making websites.
Standard rate for 5 static pages is around 500 bucks but that includes the first year of hosting and website name and email and all that junk.
Each year after that is about 120 bucks give or take for hosting and domain name.

I can do updatable pages too. They are a little extra but are nice when you want to update the content yourself on a regular basis.

The work i do is typically clean, small business oriented type layouts, but i have some other resources and people to go to that help create pretty decent sites.

www.pcrdesigns.com

That's my cell number on the site so if I answer and sound like i'm with a chick....i may be with a chick, or just asleep. East coast USA.

[HeyHeyMyMy]

I will make you a site for $150 US.
Here's the site for myself that I'm working on right now:
www.trentsevern.com/paul/main.php ... I will be registering a domain name soon.

Others:
www.trentsevern.com
www.wardenmusic.com
www.storagelight.com

[Gidge]

http://www.spyderdesigns.net/about.htm

pay a pro......

[Stavencrows]

download a shareware flash creator program (e.g. 3D Flash Animator 4) and deperately try to write your site in 7 days before you have to pay anything.

[BJW]

Originally Posted by HeyHeyMyMy

I will make you a site for $150 US.
Here's the site for myself that I'm working on right now:
www.trentsevern.com/paul/main.php ... I will be registering a domain name soon.

Others:
www.trentsevern.com
www.wardenmusic.com
www.storagelight.com

Cool site (the one for yourself, that is). I'll check out the other ones, too.

[David Hooper]

If you want something custom, go to Elance and hire somebody. It works like Ebay, but people bid on your job instead of a product.

[Davenhurst]

Learn html. It's easy, you'll pick it up in no time.

[ozraves]

For hosting, I like www.readyhosting.com I like their one plan. It costs $100 per year for unlimited bandwidth but the sign up fee is $50. That includes free domain registration.

I like Google. And, Google seems to like HTML better than any other web page construction choice. So, I'd second learning HTML. All the pages at Mojo Pie are written in HTML through Notepad (not including the forums and blogs which are purchased services from Invision Power). I recommend Adobe Photoshop Elements for dealing with photos and making them fast loading. You'll need an ftp client as well to upload your content. I suggest My Internet Files. It's freeware.

If you want to learn HTML, then I'd recommend finding one of the HTML guides on the web and then going to Mojo Pie and picking out pages you like and then clicking "view source" in your browser and printing the page out. How I learned was by punching in my interests into Google and seeing what came up. I then analyzed those pages to write code the way those guys wrote code as they were getting good rankings.

[NL5]

Originally Posted by ozraves

For hosting, I like www.readyhosting.com I like their one plan. It costs $100 per year for unlimited bandwidth but the sign up fee is $50. That includes free domain registration.

Oz - what kind of download speeds do you get with that account? How good is the uptime?

Thanks.

[lykwydchykyn]

Originally Posted by ozraves

I like Google. And, Google seems to like HTML better than any other web page construction choice. So, I'd second learning HTML.

Amen and I say Amen.

There are some articles over at home recording connection that are helpful. The webmaster over there knows a ton about building sites that get good rankings, I learned a lot by getting my site critiqued (read: torn apart) over there.

I've been getting a fair amount of search engine traffic since I did what they told me.

[d(-_-)b-Phones]

Originally Posted by Gidge

http://www.spyderdesigns.net/about.htm

pay a pro......

Pro? pfffttt

www.2advanced.com

Thats ome of my flash work, and im not even a pro yet.

[wang191]

You do work for 2advanced?

That stuff is crazy cool. the homepage a few years back was kicken. Great stuff.