The only slightly complex part was redirecting my webdomain name to the moonfruit site, but I followed the instructions and it worked within 24 hours as promised. I was quite joyous when typing my site name brought up the new view. A job well done!
www.lukenyman.com
There are quite some music sites clamoring for attention of bands & artists these days - & I have tried a few. Two that have come to my attention in the last year are Bandcamp and Reverbnation.
I first signed up with Bandcamp as it seemed less cluttered, and possibly easier to make 'pretty'. The problem after 6 months is that it has little in the way of incentive to help me push the music further. It just sits there waiting for me to upload songs (in wav format only - it converts to most other formats when uploaded. Nice idea, but unhandy in practice.
So, I decided to plunge in with Reverbnation. This site really gets you going! It give you a checklist of what needs to be done - upload songs, add videos, bio, photos, etc. & counts it off when you've done it too. Actually a great help for the average musician who would rather be writing songs searching for pictures of himself to upload.
oh, & it's definitely hip with the widget world. You can add little boxes to most major community sites (facebook, Myspace etc.). I added my tour schedule to my Luke nyman moonfruit site easily. And Just for fun, I added the widget below for the song i just posted on Reverbnation.
Perhaps I'll still use Bandcamp as it does allow for whole CDs to be put up to listen to, sold or downloaded for free. Revebnation is directed more at the gigging, live artist who wants to create some income on not only CD's, but MERCHANDISE! (Or that horrible foreshortened version - Merch... aargh.)
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