{"id":90,"date":"2006-05-04T13:08:29","date_gmt":"2006-05-04T18:08:29","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2006-05-04T13:08:29","modified_gmt":"2006-05-04T18:08:29","slug":"myspace_for_musicians","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.michaelgaither.com\/home\/myspace_for_musicians\/","title":{"rendered":"Myspace. Some assembly required."},"content":{"rendered":"

So easy even a child can assemble it. But what if you’re not a child? What if you’re over the age of, say 12, a musician, and want a presence up on Myspace? What do you when you realize that besides kids, a whole mess of real honest to God songwriters like Slaid Cleaves and Cara Dillon and even publications like Performing Songwriter have Myspace sites, as well. <\/p>\n

You give in and make your own.<\/p>\n

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http:\/\/www.myspace.com\/michaelgaithermusic<\/center><\/p>\n

You can get a music site with streaming songs and a gig calendar up and running in about half an hour, even if you have zero knowledge of HTML. <\/p>\n

Be careful, though. It’s easy to end up with a very intuitive address like www.myspace.com\/1252221<\/a> if you just whiz through it and don’t pay attention to what you’re doing. (Trust me on this one.)<\/p>\n

So here’s a little quickstart guide for Myspace, with the musician in mind:<\/p>\n

Getting Ready<\/b>
\nThere are two kinds of Myspace sites: A regular site (you don’t want that) and a musician site. (If you mistakenly create a regular site, you can convert it to a musician site.) <\/p>\n

Before creating a site, get this stuff ready. (It’s easier to have this stuff handy, rather than thinking of it while you type.)<\/p>\n