Overview

The music industry is changing. Once upon a time the only way to make and sell records was to get a deal with a record company. Today, more and more musicians are going it alone. Building their own studios, recording their own albums and doing the marketing for themselves. The advantages are obvious--total creative freedom and a greater slice of the retail price finding its way back to the musician. There is one big disadvantage, however--without the power of the record company how is a musician going to reach the public? What's new, and what makes it possible for a musician to reach the greatest possible market is the Internet. With your own website you can join the ever growing number of musicians and bands who are marketing and selling their music on the Internet. Creating a Music Website takes you through the basics of setting up your own site, points out some of the pitfalls, and helps you to produce your own unique presence on the Internet. It introduces HTML, shows you how to brighten up your site with graphics, tables, and frames. You'll learn how to add files of your own music, even a band video, and if you fancy selling your music off your website, the book addresses the vexed question of selling on the Internet. Written by a man who's been there and done that (check out www.musicfromthemountains.com ) this book will help you bring your music to a worldwide audience.

Full Product Details

Author:   Mike Simmons
Publisher:   PC Publishing
Imprint:   PC Publishing
Dimensions:   Width: 17.10cm , Height: 0.60cm , Length: 24.40cm
Weight:   0.236kg
ISBN:  

9781870775724

ISBN 10:   1870775724
Pages:   112
Publication Date:   31 August 2001
Audience:   General/trade ,  General
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Unknown
Availability:   In Print  
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Table of Contents

Contents Questions, questions, questions What exactly Is the Internet? What's a browser? Home page/web site - what's the difference? What is a URL? How does my web site get onto the ISPs server? I'm a Mac user - is that going to make any difference? What's HTML? Can someone do it for me? Making a start How do I set about creating a site? Designing the site. Navigation. Constructing the site. Authoring software. Page structure. Colour. Hex code. Background colour. Font size. Headings. Fonts. Lists. Working with graphics Pictures on the web. File formats. Adding pictures. Recap. Tiled backgrounds. Text as pictures. Animated GIFS. 216 colours. Adding links Text links Picture links Anchors. Thumbnails. Image maps. Mail me. Links outside. Targets. Link philosophy. Home page links. So far, so good! What you know so far. Tables and frames Tables. Table tags. More table tags. COLSPAN, ALIGN and ROWSPAN tags. Frames. So, how do we go about it? Naming frames. Wot, no frames? You've been framed. Testing, testing, one, two, three Putting music on your site Plug in for sound! Helpers and plug-ins. To stream or not to stream. Pick of the bunch. MP3. Players and encoders. Preparing for encoding. Encoding for MP3. Encoding for RealAudio. Encoding for Quicktime. Getting your file onto your site. MIDI. Embedding files. Video. Publish and be damned! Better mousetrap. Register your site. META tags. Site maintenance. Selling on the net Cheque or credit card? Other possibilities. MP3 sales. And finally Domain names. Is that it, then? So where to from here? Checklist Frequently asked questions Web resources and software Index Index

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