My Own website

[Seaford Saint]

I have started recording songs of mine over the last year or so and I would like to start to put them onto my very own website. A few misguided souls even want to buy the songs. I expect to record my songs going forward..it's great therapy

 

Has anyone on this site created their own website. If you have who did you choose, how did you do it? I haven't a clue.

 

I recall Baj having some songs....

[Crab Lungs]

I can help you with the creation of a website... although with Wordpress, it's fairly easy to make one yourself with a little persistence

[Danbert]

Yep - Wordpress is good (and free).

[Seaford Saint]

I can help you with the creation of a website... although with Wordpress, it's fairly easy to make one yourself with a little persistence

 

Would this be a website on my own pc?

[Crab Lungs]

Would this be a website on my own pc?

 

It'll be hosted online. Basically, you'll need a domain (godaddy are good for that), Hostgator (webspace - I can offer you that for free). Then you need to design your webiste. You can go for an "off-the-shelf" solution like Weebly and customise it or better still, use a Wordpress template. There are some real decent free ones, but many of the more desirable cost a little. Of course, you'll also have to consider what you'd like features wise on your site with regards to downloadable/streaming content etc.

 

Sounds a bit much to take in at first but I can of course help and I'm sure many other people on here can offer their expertise also.

[Seaford Saint]

Hi crablungs...just logged on to godaddy....do i order myname.com from them?

After this i need to get a site to host on so i will end up with.....

 

Myname@hostsite.com

 

Is this correct?

[Baj]

myspace is still the best option for a musician, that and a facebook page with soundcloud

[trousers]

myspace is still the best option for a musician, that and a facebook page with soundcloud

 

I was thinking the same....I 'look after' a website for a band but we rarely update it these days due to most fan traffic going via Facebook and the like. That said, it's probably still a good idea to have a website as a formal 'portal' to direct fans to your social network pages if nothing else.

[Seaford Saint]

The chances of me getting any fans are remote.

 

Baj, you are a much better singer than I am....I do have access to talented musicians though

 

So I will do both, I will join myspace and get a website

 

Thanks

[JonnyLove]

I have done this for my wife's website (she's a singer), I used soundcloud.com to do the leg work for me and then used the imbeded code to bring it to my site really easy. Also there is a great app for Facebook called bandpage or something like that which can enable you to bring it all under 1 roof on FB