Post by Dan on Feb 28, 2009 5:35:22 GMT -8
From a blog called Whippleworld:
websites and single song downloads
Mitch and I are looking for examples of good musician promotional websites. I got an email from him day before yesterday that simply said “I like this one” and I do, too. I love it. I think Robbie Fulks’ website is our current favorite example of a tasteful, functional site. No flash or artsy slow loading graphics it just simply features the content and makes it easy to get to. People want the information, not a Flash intro amusement park ride. And this example site shows the idea that we’d been thinking of which is to use a WordPress blog (same thing Whippleworld runs on) as the engine. Perfect because several of us have become pretty expert at WordPress after almost six years of fooling around with it. Remember, that was and continues to be the idea - encourage the members to learn WordPress and find ways to use it in personal, family and even business projects. Mitch and I think that because Fulks had the same idea we’d just been talking about there’s only one logical conclusion… Robbie Fulks is a genius. Mitch and Glenn other musicians in the group could benefit from a website in this basic style where updates are entered as posts just as easily as putting a post here. “Pages” instead of “posts” would be tabs at the top for info that doesn’t change and for the shopping cart section. When you create a page, it automatically puts a tab at the top, no programing involved. Look at the store and the place with the lyrics and guitar chords on Fulks’ site. Before you browse around on it, first read his post about single song downloads. Robbie Fulks has embraced it as the main way he’s going to sell his stuff and I think Americana is the perfect genre to utilize it.
websites and single song downloads
Mitch and I are looking for examples of good musician promotional websites. I got an email from him day before yesterday that simply said “I like this one” and I do, too. I love it. I think Robbie Fulks’ website is our current favorite example of a tasteful, functional site. No flash or artsy slow loading graphics it just simply features the content and makes it easy to get to. People want the information, not a Flash intro amusement park ride. And this example site shows the idea that we’d been thinking of which is to use a WordPress blog (same thing Whippleworld runs on) as the engine. Perfect because several of us have become pretty expert at WordPress after almost six years of fooling around with it. Remember, that was and continues to be the idea - encourage the members to learn WordPress and find ways to use it in personal, family and even business projects. Mitch and I think that because Fulks had the same idea we’d just been talking about there’s only one logical conclusion… Robbie Fulks is a genius. Mitch and Glenn other musicians in the group could benefit from a website in this basic style where updates are entered as posts just as easily as putting a post here. “Pages” instead of “posts” would be tabs at the top for info that doesn’t change and for the shopping cart section. When you create a page, it automatically puts a tab at the top, no programing involved. Look at the store and the place with the lyrics and guitar chords on Fulks’ site. Before you browse around on it, first read his post about single song downloads. Robbie Fulks has embraced it as the main way he’s going to sell his stuff and I think Americana is the perfect genre to utilize it.