If you are serious about being a professional musician or band, you need a website. A professional website allows you to showcase your music, connect with fans, capture emails, sell merch, and more. The first step to building your website, though, is picking a web host. For many people, not just… Read More »How to Choose Web Hosting for Your Band (The 3 Best Options)
In this post, I’m going to show you how you can track visits on your website (and a bunch of other visitor behavior) using Google Analytics. I’ll show you how to set up Google Analytics, add the tracking code to your website, and start tracking visitors. Best of all, using… Read More »Step 14: Tracking Website Visits with Google Analytics
In this post, I’ll show you how to start collecting emails on your WordPress website so you can start building your email list. To do this, we’ll be using MailChimp. If you’re unfamiliar, MailChimp is one of most popular and easy to use email marketing platforms out there. Best of all,… Read More »Step 13: Collecting Emails to Build Your List
In this post, I’ll show you how to set up a contact form on your website using one of the most popular contact form plugins on WordPress, Contact Form 7. The plugin is fairly easy to use and setup but best of all, it’s free. Here’s how to do it:… Read More »Step 12: Adding a Contact Form
In this post, I’ll how you how to add a photo slider and a photo gallery to your website. First, I’ll start with the photo slider, then move onto the gallery after that. If you’re a new band, the slider may be a better choice to start, since you may… Read More »Step 11: Adding a Photo Slider or Gallery
In this post, I’ll cover how to add events to your website using the integrated events plugin that comes with the FWRD theme. This post is part of a 14-step series on creating a website for your band using WordPress. Click here to go back to the main page. Setting… Read More »Step 10: Adding Events to Your Band Website
In this post, I’ll show you how to add a music player to your website. First, I’ll show you how to embed a music player using SoundCloud. Then, I’ll show you how to add a music player using Iron Music (a plugin that comes with the FWRD Theme). So first up,… Read More »Step 9: Adding Music to Your Website
In this post, I’ll show you how to set up a shop page on your website. To do this, we’ll use a free plugin called WooCommerce. This is the most popular and expansive e-commerce plugin for WordPress. First, I’ll show you how to install the plugin. Then, I’ll run through… Read More »Step 8: Setting Up Your Store With WooCommerce
In this post, I’ll show you how to use Visual Composer to create a one-page homepage. I’ll cover how to use both the frontend and backend editors of Visual Composer, cover my own homepage on www.alterheart.com (so you can create a similar design if you like), how to add links… Read More »Step 7: Building a One-Page Homepage
Like I mentioned in the previous few steps, this section of the tutorial will use the FWRD theme. All the customizations, screenshots, advice, etc. in this section will pertain to that theme only. Each theme is different. If you want to follow along exactly, you will need that theme. If… Read More »Step 6: Customizing the FWRD WordPress Theme
