Web Site Builders?
Does anyone have experience with the various web site builders for bands. I'm on CDBaby, so I'm looking at HostBaby, Wix, and Squarespace. Anyone have experience and/or preferences? Thanks!
Producer, songwriter, multi-instrumentalist. I make indie pop as Port Streets, 90s/shoegaze as Swooner, and Electro as Yours Mine.
A great way to get started with a website https://www.jimdo.com/
Pagecloud and Squarespace are the best I've seen. That said my current website (link in my sig) uses Weebly.
Thanks, guys. Don't want to overthink it, this is great.
Producer, songwriter, multi-instrumentalist. I make indie pop as Port Streets, 90s/shoegaze as Swooner, and Electro as Yours Mine.
Squarespace looks interesting. About the same price as I am now paying for hosting for my prehistoric ASP site (which I haven't updated in a long time). I see the $12 per month plan is limited to 20 "pages." Seems a little stingy, but I guess it would force one to edit one's self — which is almost never a bad thing.
I looked for financials about Squarespace and found little, but what I did scrounge up seemed to indicate a healthy company. Web companies come and go these days. A stable one is a rare find.
I looked for financials about Squarespace and found little, but what I did scrounge up seemed to indicate a healthy company. Web companies come and go these days. A stable one is a rare find.
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I recommend Wordpress. Using it since 2005 now. You can tweak anything.
I second this.Marco Raaphorst wrote: ↑20 Jul 2017I recommend Wordpress. Using it since 2005 now. You can tweak anything.
Get a good web hosting service that can run Wordpress, if they don't support Wordpress run away.
Buy a decent Wordpress theme from here: https://themeforest.net/ Don't be a cheapass, you get what you pay for.
Make sure you pick something very well supported by documentation and customer support, usually via email.
On web host install wordpress.
Load your theme.
The rest is clicky clicking, adding content, adding widgets like audio players, etc.
Yeah, I honestly don't *want* to tweak anything - I just want something easy to administer and change and has the capabilities I'll need. I don't want to have to 'update' anything, ever, ha.
Producer, songwriter, multi-instrumentalist. I make indie pop as Port Streets, 90s/shoegaze as Swooner, and Electro as Yours Mine.
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Squarespace is then best imo. http://squarespace.com
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