Getting A Website For Your Band
Why a band still needs its own website next to social media, and what to put on it.
From the archive. This post first appeared on the earlier music blog at this address and is kept as it was published, apart from the design. Names, prices and links may be out of date. All archive posts.
So you’ve had a few successful gigs, even had some paying customers who aren’t your family and friends, but what next? Getting your music known and published whilst continuing to keep up the gigs, practicing and writing is probably the best way – although of course, there tried and tested ways are by no means the only ways!
With the internet, file sharing and huge online communities going down into the most specific niches you can think of, it is a great way to find people who like the noises you are making. This isn’t the be all and end all though, so sometimes you just have to go out and get some flyers posted for your next gig and get some people interested the traditional way.
Getting online through free sites and social media is the best way when you are just starting out, so getting onto twitter, Facebook and the newly revamped MySpace are all great routes to getting yourself known. With this combination of social media, you can let people know what you are doing, tell people through followed posts, post gigs and even sell your merchandise.
Eventually you might get to the point where the free sites just don’t cut it. If this is the case for you, get in touch with web design specialists such as Liquid Bubble who can help you get the right website for your style. Nearly everyone will have been on a band website only to find a holding page, a terribly designed site straight from 1997 or something which looks good, but has no helpful information at all on it. Getting the right mixture of design, function and information can be difficult, but if you think from the fans point of view, you can get everything you need to help people know about you and hear your music within a few clicks. It shouldn’t be a labyrinth of pages to get to your discography or a free MP3, so consider the practical side before your artistic temperament takes over!
Once this is all sorted out, you will hopefully only have to worry when you put your next best selling album onto the discography or world tour on your gig page!