Hosting
Chivalry Music & Internet
Publishing offers economical site hosting and design
services to Celtic, "period" and folk
musicians. We also understand the demanding lifestyle
of traveling musicians, and provide services such as
ongoing maintenance (updates) to your Web site, CD sales and distribution
and e-mail boxes that
you can access from any Web-connected computer.
We offer complete Web site
design services, but will also host pages created by
you.
Our services include, but are not limited to:
Graphics creation and
manipulation
Page layout and site
architecture
Digitization of text,
photos, graphics & sound
Site maintenance
E-mail boxes or
"ghost" forwarding
Secure credit card sales
Optional inclusion in Cantaria
(which will boost hits)
Hit statistics analysis
reports
Online CD sales and shipping
Pricing:
There are several different options for how we
can work together, depending on your needs and preferences. Here are
the pre-defined packages we offer, but if you don't see what you
want, talk to us. We'll be happy to work with you.
1. Chivalry's Original Web Site
Service Package for Musicians
Chivalry started out as a service to musicians
to help them "get on the web." That's still one of
our main services and we are committed to continuing to provide
affordable web hosting and maintenance to the folk music
community. For $350 per year you get:
Space for a basic web site (up to 5 meg of
files) housed at www.chivalry.com/yourband/
with an optional redirect of www.yourband.com if you've registered it.
We'll add guestbook, subscribable mailing list
and counter
We will monitor your guestbook, make updates to
your calendar, add new photos or sound clips as
needed & do other maintenance tasks within reason. We estimate
this to be about 3 hours of work per month for one web editor.
We'll proofread and do basic editing when we add new
text to your site.
POP e-mail box such as yourband@chivalry.com
and/or a redirect e-mail address that forwards mail to one or more
addresses. IE yourband@chivalry.com can actually forward messages to
all individual members.
Option of
selling your CDs through the Chivalry Music catalog*
This service does not include initial design and building of your
web site, or major overhauls & redesign. We'll keep things
up to date with information you provide. You don't have to know HTML
at all.
Optionally, we can give you access to make changes yourself
using an application like Microsoft FrontPage or Dreamweaver, but you still
have us to rely on for
other updates and technical help/support and advice.
2. Site Design
Every site is different and the size and scope
depends on the nature of your performing group and what content you
have to offer your audience. Our site design service includes
consultation to lead you through the planning process of identifying
your goals, audiences and content then the implementation phase of
gathering the content together and designing the look and feel of
the site to craft an "image" for your music. When
the site is established, we help you to market it and make it as
"findable" on the web as possible.
Our site design services start at
$300 for a
basic site with main page, artist bio, calendar, CD page, photos and
sound clips. For a site design price quote,
please send us an e-mail and tell us a bit about yourself or your
band and share your
expectations and visions for a web site. Send it to Kate Akers.
Here are some examples sites showing
what you could expect for the $300 design fee: liza/"Liza Kay | Jolly Rogers
Here are some of the bigger sites
we've designed:
M Stewart
3. Domain registration
We can register a domain name such as yourband.com for
$15 per year.
4. Robust web hosting accounts
As your web site grows, so will your need for
additional disk space, tools and utilities that can best be
provided by having your own hosting account. We have packages
at two levels with different amounts of disk space and
bandwidth. Details about these are available on request.
When you move your site to a separate
account, we still will provide maintenance and technical support
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For more
information, contact:
Kate
Akers, kakers@chivalry.com
Updated:
January 19, 2008