Here's the deal. I looked around a bit and found a couple of places that were offering a band website for free, kind of. There is a basic website that is available free, but you have to pay for hosting, etc. So there is a bill at the end of the month for your free website. I am setting out to offer an alternative. The sites I am offering are of no cost to you. There will be an audio ad on your home page and text ads on each page of the site. This is an advertising supported business model. I will be offering a few skins for your sites, so that they don't all look the same. You will be able to use your art work for a banner at the top of your site. You will have a home page and a contact page, and if you choose, a picture gallery, a calendar, and a music player. Other thoughts or site features include a guest book where your fans can leave comments and a newsletter page to let your fans know what is going on. If you already publish a newsletter it could be posted on line in addition to your mailing list. The format for the web address will be http://heresoursite.com/yourbandname. There are descriptions of the pages and links to some sample pages HERE. If there is interest in direct domain names like www.yourbandname.com I will make that service available. For a small, one time set-up fee you can have your site listed as: YourBandName(dot)heresoursite(dot)com. If you would like to check out a sample site click HERE. To check out the current skins library click HERE. Check back for additional features and skins. You can contact me at wink@heresoursite.com with any questions. For other options for contact there is a contact link in the nav bar. If you know of anyone who might be interested in this service you can email them a link to this site by clicking HERE.
I would like to make this a community site so that people can find out about bands in their area and what's happening in areas they may be visiting. I will index bands by genre and by geographical area when there is a base of bands with sites. I encourage bands to put up a site even if you have a site or a myspace page. I hope that you will also publicize your site and the service.
In line with making this a community sites I will put an index of services for bands/musicians. If you have a web site I will link to it. If you don't have a web site I will put up a simple informational page with contact information and services offered. These services might include music stores, booking agents, equipment repair shops, instrument repair shops, speaker reconers, backline suppliers, or production services (sound, lighting, staging,etc.).
I have an informational page on the procedures for getting started HERE. Sites will be put up on a first come first served basis. If the popularity of the site gets to that point I will make it so that you build your own site as with myspace. I work as a sound technician, and there needs to be an income.