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 Artist Logs: Some quick, free advice // Websites for musicians and artists

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Some quick, free advice

4 August 2005, by Andy Hume

Since offering our free site & communication assessment we have—not surprisingly—had a fair amount of requests for this service. So many in fact that we have had to start asking for sites to meet certain criteria before we begin to work on the assessment.

The criteria are simple, and are as follows:

I don’t think that this is a lot to ask. A professional artist who is using the web to promote their work should be prepared to pay the minimal domain name and hosting charges that come with that. We are only talking AL30 - AL40 a year here, not exactly big money.

The great thing about the web of course is that it is dead simple for anyone to publish anything with minimal expertise or money. However, when a site is an important part of your professional life it has to rise above the average self-published look and feel. If the Fine Arts Brass Ensemble had a home page address of www.get-free-web.com/members/finearts/webspace then you probably wouldn’t think they were particularly special. Image is an important part of promoting musicians, and your domain name should be a integral part of your image.

When looking at requests that come in for our free service, I always try and be as fair as possible. I don’t want to turn away people that do not fulfill the criteria, and I always take the time to look at the sites and offer a few simple pieces of advice. The advice invariably starts with recommendations to remove any advertising on the site and to spend a small amount of money on a proper domain name.

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