One of those quick recommendation posts.
I got asked four times last week if we could recommend a good designer for a cheap and simple website for a band who we were exchanging emails with – four separate occasions! At least these bands knew that they needed a site of their own.
I recommended one guy that we use for some stuff, but he isn’t cheap, and I also recommended that people go and use the services of the amazing elance. I love that site. This blog was put together by someone we found on there as was an e-commerce store we have. Basically it’s a site where you post a description of the work you want done and people will bid to give you that service. You get to see what they have done and then you choose someone to work with. You only pay, securely through the site’s system when the work is done and you’re happy. Highly recommended, but I wouldn’t expect a site for a band for less than $500 or so.
The last option and the one that I mentioned to all four of the people was that they learn how to do it themselves.
They weren’t keen as they all claimed to be useless at design and anything technical. I pointed out that they were half my age and had been brought up on computers, so that was largely tosh. If I can manage it, they can. But I don’t use anything difficult. If you know anyone who is a nerd or a geek or have the time to learn Dreamweaver or FrontPage, then that’s a great option.
I didn’t and couldn’t, so I bought XSitePro website design software. I won’t bore you here as to why it’s so good as you can click on the link and read all about it yourself but, take it from me, it’s one of the best investments I’ve ever made and has paid for itself many times over. And don’t think that because their site focuses on Business sites and Internet Marketing that it won’t work for you and your band’s site. We’ve used it ourselves and got others to use it and seen a dozen or more band sites built using it – it’s awesome and great value.
It’s important to remember that you should have a website for your band at your own domain name (rather than just relying on MySpace and other Social Networking sites – and we’ll look at this in detail another time), but your site only needs to be simple whilst you are at the DIY stage, and this software will allow you to do that yourself very easily. In fact, one of our artists ended up using this software and doing most of the other sites for the bands we pointed at him for a decent fee.
It’s not budget software. It normally costs $297 but is currently on offer at $197, although if you come to this post and it’s gone back up, don’t blame me!
If you haven’t got a site built for your band then this is a great way to get it done. Plus you’ll have the tool and the skill to use it, for a load more sites in the future should the need arise.
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