The people listed above are in it to give you a real professional site, but these are a few sites that you can build your website on your own from scratch. They're absolutely free and offer you chatroom, polls, images, the works. But if you sign up for these, you don't get the domain name you want. You have to do it at a later time for money. An example of name you get: www.theirsite/yournameofchoice.com
These are a good alternative for sure. Good looking out Brandon. There are several ways to do a site and if anyone needs any help if they are doing it for free or DYI then please feel free to email me Jonathan@FractionRecords.com or Arielle Arielle@FractionRecords.com. NO QUESTOINS ARE STUPID! Building sites get crazy sometimes.
Or post your questions here and we can see if we can help along with everyone else who has a clue about code. Thanks again Brandon.
It's the same as any pay site, but you don't get the domain name, and you have ads. Sometimes annoying ones that pop-up and you have to close twice and shit. You can still submit them to Google or whatever-anything you do with a normal site. It's not glitchy like Myspace is, it's just the same HTML or whatever as any other site. You won't get much room, which can be a hassle for bands because MP3's are still pretty big. But there isn't any quality difference.
I think I made a mistake back in the day by signing Romeo up for Geocities. I decided to upgrade, but didn't realize that would mean that Yahoo would license the domain name romeogoestohell.com for itself and rent it to me. I'm locked in now, unless I want to shut down the whole thing and wait to get the name back myself. I do my other site on IX hosting and it's easier, cheaper, more room, more support, more features. Anyway, my point is this: get the domain name yourself first, no matter what site you do or don't do.
I'd say it's a step up from a networking/myspace kinda thing though. And upgrading is as easy giving them a credit card number. If you do own the domain name yourself you can still use it when you upgrade.
Me myself, I use my space from comcast. they give a good amount of space (30 megs or so); and also give u up to 7 accounts with all their own webspace with the same amt of space. The cool part is that there is no bandwidth limitations, so your free to link around your accounts all you want.
I did the geocities also with my band, though i didi register our Domain outside of geocities. It still sucked my ass, but after getting cable, comcast had a good amt of space for music, vids, or anything you needed, and like i said, no bandwidth limitations, so i decided to stick with that. And as long as I have cable (which I doubt i will ever get rid of) we're pretty much good to go.
If you're serious about your band and you plan on sticking around for awhile it's worth the money to pay for domain space. That way you'll have full control over your site and you won't have to deal with popups and other ads, sluggish performance and annoying online wysiwug forms.
I built an entire site for an old band of mine on geocities about 8 years ago and one day they just decided to delete it without ever notifying me. I have no backup of alot of the files that were on that server.
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Thanks again Brandon.