Build Your Own Website

When I first started out I was a bit daunted by the thought of creating a website, I'd heard that I needed to be able to register a domain, find a hosting service and then learn to program with HTML. I thought, I just want to play music, I haven't got time to mess about with all of this technical stuff. Well that was then, these days there are plenty of companies out there who take the pain of building a website yourself, and would be a whole lot cheaper than taking on a web developer.

This site is created with Bandzoogle, if you want to try it out for free click on this link

The videos below are of when Bandzoogle did a couple of Open House presentations at Berklee, they are really worth watching (even if you aren't going to use Bandzoogle) as they contain plenty of great website tips

Here's a few other band web site hosting links:

http://www.reverbnation.com/sitebuilder

http://members.cdbaby.com/websites-for-bands.aspx

And there's still the good old Myspace and Facebook pages which are free and will at least get you started

If you want to sell your music through iTunes check out this link for a list of aggregators:

https://itunesconnect.apple.com/WebObjects/iTunesConnect.woa/wa/displayAggregators?ccTypeId=3

Here's a great article on properly attributing sources of articles when putting together your website or blog

http://blog.hubspot.com/blog/tabid/6307/bid/33098/How-Not-to-Steal-People-s-Content-on-the-Web.aspx