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Yeah, I think between a wordpress site and facebook you'll be fine. One thing I know for sure is you shouldn't spend a dime on such things but let them grow organically and when you start generating income from your music dedicate a percentage of that to marketing/web. On Wed, Jul 29, 2009 at 9:46 AM, Per Boysen<perboysen@gmail.com> wrote: > Hi George, > > Check out the free Wordpress templates! They support the feature you > mention and offers an easy to grasp user interface. You may even be > the admin yourself if you have the time for it. > > I used to work as a web designer some years ago and I designed and > programmed this kind of dynamic, script based web site for a company > in php. Today all that work, very expensive/well paid back in those > days, come for free with a wordpress template. You can add advanced > functions by importing plug-ins and there is a huge programmer > community that creates such plug-ins for the wordpress system. > Needless to say, I use wordpress today for all my own sites. > > Greetings from Sweden > > Per Boysen > www.boysen.se > www.perboysen.com > > > > On Wed, Jul 29, 2009 at 6:21 PM, George > Ludwig<georgeludwigmusic@gmail.com> wrote: >> Hi all, >> >> I'm getting my marketing end together, and what's holding me up right >now is >> the lack of a real website. I've registered the domain name, but I need >the >> site built. The one thing I need that is a little complex for your >average >> web designer (but I would expect to be very common on artist web sites) >is a >> means to collect and verify a fan email address, and monitor fan >activity. >> >> By verify, I mean that the fan should receive an email to the address >they >> supplied, and then they click a link in the email that calls my server >back, >> and in this way the email address is verified. Naturally, I also need a >way >> to maintain and interact with that list of email addresses. >> >> Also, I need a "members" section that is accessed by using a validated >email >> address for entry, and I want to record the number of hits per email >> address, so I know who is the most active on my site. >> >> Everything else about my planned site is trivial from a programmatic >> viewpoint (i.e., news/blog, bio, images, sound samples, schwag store, >etc.). >> >> Can anyone reccomend a designer who has done this, or point me to some >> downloadable php or asp widgets, or maybe a hosting service that offers >this >> as part of their framework? >> >> Thanks! >> >> -George >> >> -- >> >> http://www.myspace.com/georgeludwigmusic >> > >