How to Make a Band Website - By: Bradley Gwin

Getting a marketable web site is crucial for any serious musician. Although you can and ought to set up social profiles at Facebook and other sites, there isn't a substitute for owning your very own band site.

Fortunately today it couldn't be simpler to create a band internet site, so throughout this post we'll address how to make a band website.

I recommend utilizing a free software referred to as WordPress to manage your internet site. In case you're not familiar with it, WordPress is a free blog software that enables working with your web site as simple as possible so as that you will be able to put in new posts/content and tailor the layout and look of it with considerable ease.

But let's not jump ahead of ourselves, you need to register your new domain and acquire internet hosting for your web site. The domain is the destination at which your internet site is found. Domain registration costs an up front cost of generally around ten dollars, dependant upon which provider you go with, and it is a yearly recharge.

Hosting is required to keep your internet site "hosted" on the web so that folks can reach it. Internet hosting is decidedly inexpensive, depending on which provider you go with.

I use GoDaddy for both website registration and hosting as they offer some of the leading competitive rates on both and I've at no point had any problems with them in 6 years of hosting and owning sites. The truth is, I make use of them so frequently that they hooked me up with a reduced rate link for both registration and hosting, so I can share them with you.

First of all is your domain registration. The best advice I can give is to register your own artist/band name as the web address of the site as you want your band site to be clearly associated with you.

If your band name is common and you find that it's already been taken as a URL by someone else when you try registering it, just add an extra word like "music" to achieve a unique URL you can call your own and to reiterate to people that they're at the correct music relevant site of yours.

Next you need to procure internet hosting. You can have multiple websites on the same account at no extra cost, but even to put one website online you have to get internet hosting for it. Luckily you can get it for as low as $1.99 a month with GoDaddy.

Though you can find lots of free designs within WordPress, check out ThemeForest for quality site designs that look extremely functional, professional, and attractive, but for tremendously low priced at that. I'm talking between ten and thirty five dollars for 99% of the site designs you'll find on there.

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