A website is very important to have because its the one thing that your fans will refer to when they mention you. Chamillionaire has Chamillionaire.com, 50 Cent has Thisis50.com, and Russell Simmons has GlobalGrind.com. The reason why owning some web space is important is because its just like owning a house. Music in today's era has officially gone digital so much that even Timbaland has released an album that you can only get by downloading it to your phone. When plugging yourself (promoting yourself, not what you thought) its good to have one site where everyone can find you at. Its a mouthful when you say "catch me at Myspace.com/SuchandSuch213." When its much easier to just say "hit me up at suchandsuch.com" (MAN! That's sounds professional) I am in the process of doing this myself. I'm using a free web service right now http://www.freewebs.com . What that server does is allow you to take a template and design your own site. However, it'll come up as suchandsuch.webs.com. So your next step would be to buy a domain name. This is pretty much buying the title to the house. A domain name is what people actually type into the address bar to get to your site. No matter what web host you use, that will always be yours. You can buy them monthly for like $10, yearly for $35-$45, or for even 10 years for $89.99. Once you've gotten that far, I would recommend learning as much as you can and playing with the site to learn how to add flash, pictures, music, and make it as interactive as possible. You want this site to be fun and for people to really get something out of it, and add value to their experience. I'm still in the learning phase, however, mine is interactive and informative. http://www.hastyle.webs.com Check it out and enjoy.
Friday, November 13, 2009
Websites-R'-Us
A website is very important to have because its the one thing that your fans will refer to when they mention you. Chamillionaire has Chamillionaire.com, 50 Cent has Thisis50.com, and Russell Simmons has GlobalGrind.com. The reason why owning some web space is important is because its just like owning a house. Music in today's era has officially gone digital so much that even Timbaland has released an album that you can only get by downloading it to your phone. When plugging yourself (promoting yourself, not what you thought) its good to have one site where everyone can find you at. Its a mouthful when you say "catch me at Myspace.com/SuchandSuch213." When its much easier to just say "hit me up at suchandsuch.com" (MAN! That's sounds professional) I am in the process of doing this myself. I'm using a free web service right now http://www.freewebs.com . What that server does is allow you to take a template and design your own site. However, it'll come up as suchandsuch.webs.com. So your next step would be to buy a domain name. This is pretty much buying the title to the house. A domain name is what people actually type into the address bar to get to your site. No matter what web host you use, that will always be yours. You can buy them monthly for like $10, yearly for $35-$45, or for even 10 years for $89.99. Once you've gotten that far, I would recommend learning as much as you can and playing with the site to learn how to add flash, pictures, music, and make it as interactive as possible. You want this site to be fun and for people to really get something out of it, and add value to their experience. I'm still in the learning phase, however, mine is interactive and informative. http://www.hastyle.webs.com Check it out and enjoy.
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