Anyone have experience in starting your own site?

AndGabrielFell · #1 09-22-2011, 01:59 PM

Hey folks. Does anyone have any advice on starting a website to promote yourself as a bassist for hire? I know Blogspot.com offers a free domain name. Is anyone familiar with any others? Are there any that are better with uploading videos, music, and pics? Any advice would be greatly appreciated.

BogeyBass · #2 09-22-2011, 02:12 PM

Well first is was Friendster...then it was Myspace...now its Facebook.

or if you want more of a "web page" you can get a few pages and a site builder from GoDaddy

AndGabrielFell · #3 09-22-2011, 04:24 PM

I have a Facebook. I'm just looking to see about getting a website with a domain name (hopefully free) that I can put on a business card.

kb9wyz · #4 09-22-2011, 04:29 PM

Wordpress has a number of free templates you can use for free. There are advertisements if you don't pay. $17/year for hosting and domain. Like 32GB for storage.

Eric Moesle · #5 09-22-2011, 04:29 PM

You can set yourself up a personal page pretty easily on Band websites that work - no web design skills needed | Bandzoogle and you can also get your own domain name there.

Pre-made templates make it really easy to do.

FuzzBoxVoodoo · #6 09-23-2011, 06:54 PM

I set up our own Domain name with Go Daddy and am using WIX to host our Website.
There is a learning curve and it takes time and paitence.
When you go get your own domain then you can have a direct address such as (www . beyondreasonband .com) if you don't then it would read something like (www . wix .Beyondreason band) .com not exact but you get the idea.
Seems kind of cheesy to have any other name than your band in the web address.