Web Design and Online Stores for Musicians

We specialize in web design for musicians. Our standard musician's web site includes a bio, tour schedule, album page(s), e-mail mailing list, site hit tracking, and a sampling of lyrics and clips. More complex sites are available, and full song streaming including video is offered as well for an additional fee. Our web design is optimized to market your music in a laid back but effective manner, and search engine ranking is also comsidered. The fee for a basic site is $500; we can add a store to the site for $250 additional. There is no charge to add items to the store, and musicians can add items themselves. Soundscan reporting is included for all CDs with UPC codes.

All musicians' sites are designed and managed by Valerie Magee, who has been involved in web design for musicians since 1998, and who has a Gold Record for Gordon Lightfoot's Complete Greatest Hits in recognition of her Internet marketing.

Visit singer/songwriter Michael Jerling's site here.	Visit singer/guitar player Cathy Cowette's site here.	Visit singer/songwriter Curtis Edmund's site here.

See our Clients for addtional musician sites, and music industry clients.

See what we can do.

All sites are fully maintained for a year at no additional charge. Domain registration fees are separate; we register all sites at Network Solutions for best availability and flexibility. Prices have been dropping, so this shouldn't be an obstacle for anyone. Maintenance beyond the first year can be at a fixed contract rate, or at a modest hourly rate.

Our web design fee includes a full year's hosting, as well as routine corrections and changes (such as the addition of tour dates or news items). After the first year, musicians can sign up for yearly hosting and maintenance, or for hosting only. Our sites are hosted at a very fast, high availability Internet backbone on our own servers. We monitor our sites for availability, backup all changes, and automatically backup all databases on a regular basis - far more frequently than other services. All of our sites automatically include our subscription services at a tier level corresponding to the site level. That means that you will have an e-mail mailing list on your site from day 1, if you'd like to use it.

In addition, we offer subsets of the above for musicians who would like to take advantage of some of our services, but perhaps not all of them (for example, if they already have a web site). In particular, we offer the following separately:

1. Subscription services - enrollment is automated. You link to the mailing list processor from your web site. E-mail address and geographical information can be collected and used for targetted mailings. Prices depend on list size and mailing frequency but start at $50/yr for 500 addresses and 12 mailings. You can read more about our subscription services support here.
2. Web site hosting - all maintenance is done by the artist or his web developer. Tier 1 subscription services are included for a small additional fee.
3. Album pages - single page for one album, with clips of all the songs. Price is $35 for up to 12 songs (or CD trades, at our option). You can give out the address of the album page, link to it, or use the clips with links from your site.
4. Music encoding and streaming - $5/song clip; $10/ 4 minute song. One year hosting included. The rates are for songs on CD; higher rates apply for tapes and LPs.
5. Site hits tracking - $25/year alone; $10/year with a basic mailing list subscription; included with full web sites. This counter is viewable only by you, via a password protected login. Hits are updated realtime, so you can see immediately if people are visiting your site (for example, following a mailing). This information is retained permanently and you can view it historically by paging through monthly calendars.
6. Tour schedule submission to online calendars - priced according to #dates and #calendars.
7. Payment services and fulfillment - your own online store - simple one page order form, or a full store with search and shopping cart. The one page order form requires a one-time setup fee of $350. The order form will look like your web site. There is no charge for additional items, and you can add new items and change prices yourself. We take only 20% of the sales price. We can sell your CDs, sheet music, posters and memorabilia. We do Soundscan reporting for all musician clients. Look at a one page store here: Compass Rose Music (Steve Gillette & Cindy Mangsen).
8. Online promotion of artist - priced individually.

We are open to other possibilities. If there is something that you'd like, just ask about it.

Prices subject to change