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cloudscapes
for $100 a year, you can get dedicated hostign and a domain. that's what I did with dreamhost. you needto code your pages though. you could embedd a free blog (like LJ) into your site though
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rrooyyccee
i looked up dreamhost and it doesn't look too bad.
a follow up question: what is the flat out easist way to code a reasonably simple webpage? can i use microsoft word for something like that?
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cloudscapes
I don't know anything about word, but seeing huge and complex its gotten it wouldnt surprise me if it had an "HTML export" feature. I dont know much about other solutions out there since I code my pages from scratch.
I guess dreamweaver is a good start.
the advantage of getting a host like this one is that youre pretty much unresttricted for the songs and content (as long as its legal) you put up on there, which might not be the case for free blogs and myspace kind of sites. but of course the tradeoff is that you have to do a lot yourself. there might be more user-friendly services out there that, for a fee, let you upload music and info. zebox.com is one, $25 a year. when I used to be a mumber it was pretty good (offering pages for music, info, pictures) and the pages at the time were uncluttered. dunno if that's changed much in the last two years
07/10/06
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Taxis
You can save your word pages as HTML files. Most of the formating will stay where you put it. You can do macros and a bunch of other crazy shit.
It would be more my style to use excel tho. I like excel. Its fantastic. Not sure how well it would work into a web page, but it would allow you more flexibility than word for a lot of things.
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07/10/06
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Taxis
Actually, I would probly be more likely to use word to make the basic structure, and then edit the html file in wordpad for the oldschool goodness of it.
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07/10/06
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Taxis
Its not a proper web page unless it has a field of stars in the background and scrolling marquees for headers.
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cloudscapes
Taxis said: "Its not a proper web page unless it has a field of stars in the background and scrolling marquees for headers."
don't forget the comet cursor and marvelously clashing green background with red text!
07/10/06
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Ochre
if you can't see at least 30 animated gifs, you're not trying hard enough.
but seriously, dreamweaver's great for site designing, but word should be more than good enough for simple pages. you'll soon get the hang of html too.
07/10/06
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jkn
The last several versions of Word and Excel have been able to export to HTML. If you have MS Office - go ahead and use it. It'll work fine. The html will be ugly - but most people don't look directly at html. :-)
A lot of webhosts have prepacked apps that you can install on your site with a click of a button - blogs, photo galleries, etc... So do some hunting around when you're deciding.
I have several sites at qwk.net - been happy with them for about 5 years.
07/10/06
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jkn
... and yes - I miss the days of starfields and animated gif break lines. Be sure to use blinky text often as well... 
07/11/06
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monkeyboy
Get Nvu. Good free wsiwyg web editor
Then hop on over to Open Source Web Design and get yourself a nice template.
Open the template up in Nvu, muck about with it, then publish to the web using the host you've got wit hte $100 you have yet to spend any of.
My website is based on an oswd.org template. To be honest, I only changed the header but seeing as its a simple and generic design thats all that needed doing. It works and I'm about hte music, not flash design.
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08/14/06
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dach
Individual hosting suffers the HUGE drawback that almost no one ever goes there. You'll end up spending lots of time trying to push your sites visibility. Consider who your audience is. Do you want to give the url to friends you know you will follow it, or are you trying to reach into an unknown public group?
The thing that sites like myspace and em411 releases section has going for it is that it's already tapping into an existing group of users, and it's usually a single click away, while still remaining a part of the overall site. ie I come to em411 and check out the new releases there, that's an em411 context experience, and I am often unwilling to follow individual URLs offsite while doing this. Of course, if I find a nice artist, I may wander to their myspace. But if it comes to following to their individually hosted website, and there are mp3s to download (rather than streaming or embedded) and save or a maze of new links and clicks, then they'd want to be very special to continue to hold my attention.
If you do host your own page, it can be quite educational/useful to study your web access logs. Make sure your hosting service provide good log analysis tools. You can see where the most visitors came from, and how they move in your site. If they have to click links to your Music Downloads page, and then on an album but they dont seem to be doing that, then you know you are losing them and need to bring the mp3 to the download page immediately...
this kind of thinking and planning is usually done quite well by the community sites for you.
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