Wordpress does a silly thing. It has serialized data inside its database. For me, this usually becomes a problem when I try and move a site from 'beta.blahblah.com' to 'www.blahblah.com'. The length of the url changes by 1, and makes a whole bunch of things not work when I bring the site up on 'www.blahblah.com' Read On…
Ok, I'll take a break from the ArtistData posts to point out a little thang that I did before I started all that work. When a couple of my bands used Reverbnation as their main entrepot for gig dates, I wanted to get the gigs on my calendar automatically. See, at least one of my bands schedules gigs without actually telling me.... musicians, y'know? Read On…
Continuing my saga of building a better band website, I spent a lot of time smoothing out my approach to keeping the band's schedule in line on all of the ziillion sites that list band dates. Read On…
Continuing my saga of building a better band website, I spent a lot of time smoothing out my approach to keeping the band's schedule in line on all of the ziillion sites that list band dates. Read On…
There is always the possibility of some band getting so hugely popular on some hit single or by earning the overwhelming adoration of the entire world that their website is going to receive a lot of traffic. When we build a band website, we should plan for the eventual repercussions of winning Guitarmageddeon. Read On…
I've been doing some stuff recently. I thought the world should know.
In particular, I've been madly doing all the sites for the bands I play in. I finally got fed up with them either being:
non-existent
bad
in flash
ugly
never updated
embodying everything that truly bad band websites embody
They might not have been that bad, but it felt that way to me.
I set out to accomplish a couple things with the new sites:
allow all band members to update them
make them look better
have a single source of truth for all show updates
ultra-simple music player
put the right infrastructure for when we get really wickedly super-famous
There's a lot of meat in these topics. A lot of people do band websites badly, and the reason is that there are tons and tons of options to wade through -- a lot of them bad. I'm going to pick through the details in a series of blog posts, each one aimed at one of the subjects above.
Stay tuned. I'm going to start on the first in the series right now.