You wont find phone support or the dedicated customer support we offer at many other hosts.

We have tippled the size of our development team and have been adding new designs and competitive features on a regular basis.

In-fact, we have major updates planned this month.

We invite you to try it for yourself for free.

Chris @ HostBaby

I am surprised that after four years your post is still relevant. A musician friend signed up for this service before I had the chance to fully evaluate it. I was shocked to find how awful their CMS is and how garbage their templates are, especially at the high cost of US$20/month. Perhaps there are some redeeming qualities, like music/merch sales, but I have yet to get to that point.

I am a professional web designer, and would never advocate this service to anyone. At US$6.95/month, Bluehost offers pretty much everything under the sun without any hassle. At present, I am hacking the CSS to one of HostBaby’s minimalist templates – at least I have that to work with.

Had I the time and resources (e.g. money), I would invest in creating a website in Drupal, another open-source CMS. It can exceed every feature they have on their site, but I’m just a friend doing a favour

It would be smart for HostBaby to get with the times.

I am sure there are better bargains but for the time saved AND the ability to change and update very easily, I am pretty content…speaking of bargains…independent musicians should check out kunaki.com for really cheap cd production…like $2 a disc in batches that are VERY small (like 5 cd’s)

As far as promotion, to me facebook is the best option unless u are a viable touring band with a following. I am a jazz musician, and simply NOT going to bring huge numbers of people out regularly, but what i have found is last minute fb notices will get those people with nothing to do that night off the couch and into the club.

I stumbled upon this site looking for ways to embed video on my hostbaby sites, and just thought i would share…ty!

Will

“Hi Will,

To do that, you’d need to hire a web designer. What you are describing
is something that cannot be done with a standard wizard template.

Sorry about that! Let us know if you’d like to switch to a full account
so that someone could help you design what you described.

Celia

Celia at Hostbaby.com
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WILL ZELL wrote:
> Dear HostBaby,
>
> I am writing to inquire information that will help me get started in designing my web site with you. I have looked over the FAQ and searched the other sites. They have been helpful, yet I still need some questions answered if you may?
>
> Here is what I would like to do and perhaps you can help me get there.
>
> I would like those clicking on to OpenSourceSongs.org to see a home page that has several thumbnails of different albums along with a brief description of the work. When a customer or fan clicks on the thumbnail a seperate page opens up which includes their bio, news, MP3, purchase info through CDBaby etc.. all of the usual site information that is available through your site building hardware.
>
> This way I do not have to open up a new account for each artist I help sell their CD. This home page can be added to and one may have to scroll down to see it all.
>
> This is really all I need if it is possible. Please let me know how I can get started. I look forward to your response.
>
> Will Zell ”
>

WordPress is a great platform for websites — it’s free and with a little know-how you can have it do everything a website needs to do. For example, you can use it to serve up a podcast to iTunes. The internet has really evolved and as an independent musician you really should be taking advantage of everything you can to promote yourself. If you buy any sort of cheap standard shared hosting, you could probably get a free domain name, set it up with WordPress, and either find some nice free template to use (there are tons, just do a search) and/or hire someone to design something custom.

And don’t forget all those social networking websites!