Recently bailed on FB. Putting final touches together on a few releases and thinking about poss throwing a site together. Super broke tho. Anyone recommend current best free place to do it?
Requirements (pages) -
News - blog kinda format
Audio - embed past and future releases from soundcloud/bandcamp and mixtapes etc to stream.
Video - embed past/future videos from YouTube.
Store - store for tees/diy tapes/artwork etc and links to label releases.
Contact - messages sent to my email address and link to agents etc.
Needs to also work/look nice on mobile. And the more customizable the better. Ideally I can trash it with background gifs and sound etc
If the gap in quality/options between āfreeā and āpaid forā is huge for the sake of not much Ā£Ā£, Iād prob be down with paying a little annually or however its set up.
thanks man. Iām pretty set for content/aesthetic/layout but I havenāt made a site in like 10 years since I toyed with learning Dreamweaver! Looking for an easy yet customisable, decent site that builds/hosts. Somewhere I can just throw all the content together and lay it out without much hassle/learning. Any recommendations?
Think I would go all the way to a good hosting plan with auto-install script of wordpress.
So you will find then plugin for what you have to embed (plugin is shortcake, however you can also embed with code provided by Soundcloud, bandcamp etcā¦)
After that foundation regarding the technology to use for your website (Wordpress)
Hosting plan is in direct relation with traffic but not only because you still have a good amount of memory on the hosting plan to get all that working nicelyā¦ but still no need for now for a private server of Virtual machines.
Then for Wordpress Theming itās depend about your knowledge.
If you have a bit of knowledge I recommend Pinegrow with Wordpress Starter Theme who have all the templates pages for working with what I talking about and then you only have to get your design right with it.
And if Noob scenario + Donāt want to go with Wordpress + plugins + themeā¦
You can stick with HTML-CSS with the help of bootstrap with Blocsapp with now can works with some live content editing addonsā¦ And paypal with embed shipping gateway
CREATE CMS DRIVEN WEBSITES (with PULSE, CUSHY, OCTOBER)
Blocs has integrated support for a range of premium (paid) and open source (free) third party Content Management Systems. Itās now possible to easily create powerful, dynamic websites, that can be updated and contributed to, right from your web browser.
in anyway all will be ok with mobile and tablet with what I recommend to you.
Thatās for me the best options out there for something a little bit serious and performanceā¦
Note : Blocsapp + CMS driven provider should be more or less the cost of the hosting plan. So you will have to do a little bit of math to see if itās working for you or not. Personally itās really depend and generally a web project evolve according to traffic, needsā¦ thatās not uncommon to start with a technology and change at some point
Thanks for all those ideas dude. Tbh it all sounds like more work/learning than I have time for right now. Iām sure I heard people talk about some OK sites out there where you literally just build a site in an hour or so? Thatās kind of more what I was looking for. Just super easy. Somewhere I can collate all my past/future material, mark it with my overall aesthetic and kind of forget about it except for news/tour dates and the occasional overhaulā¦
I have got some experience with Joomla ā¦ as an alternative to Wordpress. IMO it takes a little more configuration (supported by the administration tool) and CSS work compared to Wordpress, but could be more flexible on the other side.
For both CMS plenty of free āextensionsā are available and frameworks/templates as well. I use Gantry for my Joomla projects.
Many webhosters offer packages, which include support for CMS as part of the deal. Often you can develop your website on-line (from the web-browser), if you like. If you want to develop off-line, you need to set up your development environment to emulate a web-server. The actual set-up depends on Windows/Linux/OS, Itās not a problem to set-up something like a āApachee/MySQL/PHPā environment, but it takes a bit of time too
Some hoster provide a CMS directly for the user as a package. Some of them are simple enough not to require a steep learning curve. There are not as flexible, but easy to get ones head around.
The example should be possible with a quite standard framework and free extensions (like content tabs, content sliders, feeds, news blogs, etc. which are available from many sources).
Thanks guys. Quite a lot of info/links to look thru when I get a minute. Not as simple as I imagined itād be! Iāll check out the whole WordPress thing. Pretty sure I used that like 5 years ago to build a blog for a band I was in. My memory sucksā¦
But yeah, thanks a lot for the advice/links/info. Iāll probably write again after Iāve had a look through the links and understand whatās what a little more.
thanks man. Iām pretty set for content/aesthetic/layout but I havenāt made a site in like 10 years since I toyed with learning Dreamweaver! Looking for an easy yet customisable, decent site that builds/hosts. Somewhere I can just throw all the content together and lay it out without much hassle/learning. Any recommendations?