6 Great Design Resources To Boost Your Artist Image
First of all, let’s list some resources to help boost your image. In the music industry of today, it’s not only about your music anymore. Industry professionals are focusing more and more on whether the act that’s caught their eye also has the appropriate image for the market that act’s music is targeting. Sure, you may have the sound needed to make you the new Michael Jackson, Elvis Presley, 2Pac, or king of whatever genre you let your creative juices flow in, but if the same juices aren’t present in your image as well, then sorry, you’re just not the complete ‘cocktail’ they’re looking for.
Industry professionals are getting lazy and nowadays they’re all just looking for one thing: an artist or band with the complete package needed to make some easy money without much development needed. Thus, long story short: along with great music, you BETTER make sure that you have a great, original, eye-catching and above all, marketable, image to go with it!
Whether you’re looking for easy to use website builders, flash object builders, MySpace code generators, etc. or are looking for some great websites to learn how to up your own designing skills to create truly original and professional content, there WILL be something useful of interest to you below.
1. Wix.com: Wix is a great service to easily design your own flash objects such as websites, customized MySpace pages, custom widgets, e-Flyers, video skins and more. Their online program allows you to insert music players with your own songs, use customized animated menus, upload your own images and insert them into the flash object, animate them, use them in slideshows, and much much more!
Wix is completely free with a few features missing such as linking your creation to your custom domain name, though people can still visit it through the URL provided by Wix and is embeddable with a small ‘created with wix.com’ tag attached. They also have numerous premium upgrades, ranging in extra features and prices.
Check out my MySpace page to see one of my Wix creations. It’s designed primarily for FireFox though, so Internet Explorer users, don’t be surprised when it looks kinda peculiar – just update to FF!
2. BlueVoda Website builder: This is without a doubt one of the easiest to use website builders out there. With a wide array of tools and a very user friendly interface, you can quickly and easily create your own website with this program.
To publish your website once it’s done, you do need a hosting account with VodaHost. Though, if you ask me, this is completely worth it, especially since VodaHost is one of the cheapest hosts around for only $7.95 a month for a package that includes unlimited disk space, unlimited bandwidth, unlimited E-mail accounts, A grade 24/7 service and the ability to host as many websites as you’d like on your hosting account, provided you do buy a $10 per year domain name for each website.
Check out my official music website to see one of my creations with BlueVoda.
3. Kompozer: Here’s another website builder. This one’s also easy to use with a user friendly interface, but lacks some of the features that BlueVoda has. However, it’s compatible with any web host and also has the feature to easily save your created pages as HTML files. Completely free, excluding costs you may have for your webhost.
4. Bannersnack.com: Another banner generator, but this one specialises in professional looking flash banners specifically. Free with watermark. Premium upgrades available starting at $9.
5. Hostbaby.com: This website specialises in providing artists with their own little piece of the internet. They provide a professional website builder, hundreds of templates to use, a HTML E-mail list manager, your own name@artistname.com E-mail address, your own domain name, a merchandise store, an event calendar, a blog tool, 4 gigs of storage space, unlimited bandwidth, a custom music player and more! All this costs just $20 per month! Also available is a free 30 day trial, so give them a try before spending your money!
6. Build-website.com: A website with some more resources and great tips to help you build a true online masterpiece.
And there ya’ go! 6 great resources to help you create a professional and eye-catching image! For those of you that need some help with any of these resources, please drop a comment here and I’ll do my best to reply and lend you a hand. If you’d like me to do the designing for you, that’s also possible! Just check out some of my design work here and contact me if you’d like to get a logo, cd cover, banner, flyer, MySpace page, website, or anything else done for an affordable price! Remember, I’m here to help you discover new useful ways to develop yourself as an artist – I won’t charge you an arm and a leg (okay, maybe just a leg… Kidding! 
Also, if you have any comments, questions or tips you wish to share, or know of another great design resource that should be added to this list, feel free to let me know in a comment below! I’ll give you complete credit and post a link to your website or social network profile to accompany it!
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