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Sites that cater to musicians and authorsHostBaby provides all you need for building and managing a professional website. No matter your level of skill, it's possible to create a website that is fully functional in minutes.
You don't need to know HTML to create a professional site!
HostBaby’s website builder allows you to manage your website in a simple and powerful way. You can choose from one of the many themes that we offer and modify it however you wish.
You can keep your followers engaged by using unique artist features. Sharing your content via social media platforms like Facebook or Twitter is easy with the help of these tools.
Unlimitted Pages
You can create as many pages or sub-pages you want. You can create separate pages for your members, music pages for your albums and a blog page to showcase your creativity. There are many options.
You can organize pages and subpages with our drop-down menus. This will ensure that your navigation bar is intuitive and clear.
Complete design control
HostBaby’s website builder makes it easy to make a unique website for a fraction the price of hiring a professional web designer. You can choose from one of the many pre-designed web themes or create your own theme.
Site Theme Editor
OnSite theme editor is an innovative web editing tool which allows you to customize the appearance and style of your site down to the last detail. Onsite editing lets you make changes instantly and see how they affect your website in real-time.
Each website theme comes fully designed and is ready for use. However, any one of the themes can be customized to suit your needs.
Select the section of your website you wish to modify (header, footer or body) then choose the fonts and sizes you like.
Banner Image
Make your banner. Upload your logo or photo and size it so that it fits perfectly on your site design. Our growing collection of images can be used as a starting point.
Create your own background
You can transform your website's look by uploading your background photo. You can choose from an impressive landscape or a brick wall to frame your website. Your choice is yours.
Your Domain Email
HostBaby accounts come with unlimited email addresses @yourdomain You can set up as many email addresses as you wish and access them via your smartphone, computer or laptop.
Webmail: Access your email from any computer
You can safely access your email via our webmail interface from anywhere with an internet connection.
Get Email on Your Smartphone
You can access your HostBaby email from any Blackberry, iPhone or Droid. Easy to setup!
Your Computer can receive email
Outlook Express, Thunderbird or Thunderbird are all good options to access your email from your computer. You can either drag it to your computer using POP3 or you can leave it at the server for IMAP. You have the option.
ListBaby – HTML Email Newsletter Tool
ListBaby allows you to email your subscribers in HTML and plain text. The best thing about ListBaby is that you don't have to limit how many people you can send or how often you can mail them. It is important to keep in touch with your fans. We want you to do that!
Register with ListBaby Widget
You can add a sign-up widget to your website so that visitors can subscribe directly from their site.
Simple Importation of existing lists
ListBaby allows you to easily upload all your email addresses. You don't have to limit the people you can add to your email list or how many times you can send them an email. This is a great way to stay in touch with your fans.
Send HTML emails
After you have your subscriber list, send an email to them using our HTML newsletter tool. ListBaby can make your email stand apart from the rest, no matter if you're an expert HTML coder or not. You can add images and links, or create a stunning email template.
Simple Grouping of members
Instead of having multiple people in separate lists, which can be difficult to manage! We give you one master listing and the freedom to break them up into different searchable groups (city, zip, country).
Sell music/merch online!
You can sell your merchandise and music however you wish. You can use CD Baby, PayPal or iTunes, depending on which service your customers are most likely to use. You can sell whatever you want and retain 100% of the profits.
You can stream your tunes!
You can access the Wizard's music page or stream a flash player. If you wish to stream protected clips of the songs, play them in full, or download them, please let us know.
Flash Player
You can place the flash player at either the top of your website or on its bottom. Your flash player can be customized in appearance and color. You can set it to continue playing or at the end your playlist. The player can be set to start automatically whenever a visitor arrives on your website.
You can upload unlimited songs to your music page. You can include lyrics and composer information, as well as notes.
Social Media Features
Your website should reflect this social web. HostBaby has three main features that allow you to integrate social media into your site.
1. Widgets
You can embed Facebook Like buttons and Twitter Feeds with our drag-and-drop widgets.
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Your website visitors will have an easy way to share their art on Facebook, Twitter and MySpace. Anyone can easily share your news article, blog post or photo page by enabling the share button. Share buttons allow your visitors to promote you.
3. Twitter Integration and Facebook
Your blog can be seamlessly synched with all your favourite social networks by enabling Facebook and Twitter integration. When you post a blog article, it will automatically be posted to Facebook and Twitter with a link to the new article. This saves time and ensures your fans will never miss the latest news about your artist, release date or concert.
Web Developer Accounts
HostBaby supports web hosting accounts that include FTP access. When you sign up, choose the "Developer account" option if you are a web developer or have hired one. Support is available for most content management systems, including Wordpress, Joomla and Drupal.
A powerful platform
HostBaby provides advanced web developers with powerful tools to manage their website and databases. Our powerful, UNIX-based servers support PHP and MySQL. We also offer PHPMyAdmin.
SSH, SFTP and FTP
We are open to any method you choose for accessing your server. It doesn't matter if you use the command line, or drag and droppers.
Dynamic Tools, Easy Installation
Advanced accounts include our separate Guestbook, News/Blog and Gig Calendar tools. Contact Form, ListBaby, as well as easy admin menus to manage their content. You can use them straight away or add them to your site using CSS magic. These tools will make it easier to keep your website's content current and relevant, regardless of how you use them.
Powerful servers
* Powerful Unix-based server farm
* Multiple mail/web/database servers
* Disk arrays and redundant power/connectivity to keep your site running even in power outages
* Monitoring 24x7
* Data backups daily
Servers that are powerful
* Apache Web Server Powerful
PHP 5.
* Mysql 5.
* Perl
* Python
* CGI
* Webstats
* Internetmail
Storage and Bandwidth
TenGB of Storage
You have plenty of space to grow and start big. You have 10GB storage to store all of your files, including audio and video. Ask for more storage space if needed.
UNLIMITED* Bandwidth
Our job is to provide a stable platform for you to expand your online presence. We don't limit your bandwidth. Get radio play? A big online mention? Television? No worries. No worries. We will keep your website up for all your fans.
UNLIMITED Mailing list Members
Keep in touch regardless of the size or location of your fan base. There is no limit to the number or frequency of emails you can send. This service is available at hundreds of dollars per monthly.
* We'll help you find the right solution for sites with high bandwidth usage.
Plans & Pricing
Make a site that your followers will love.
All the above features are available for $20/month
Save only 16.58 per month by paying 199.00
Register your own domain name (www.YourArtistName.com) for only 11.99 a year.
All accounts include:
Storage Space: 10GB
* UNLIMITED Bandwidth
* UNLIMITED Email addresses
* UNLIMITED Mailing list Members
* Live Support for/by Musicians
Easy Site Builder:
It's easy - no experience required!
* DESIGNER WEBSITE THEMES
* Make a Change to Your Site!
* Music Player
* News/Blog Tool
Innovative Features
* FTP/SFTP/SSH access
* PHP/MYSQL database
* Integration of Dynamic Tools
* HTML Mailing list
*We'll move your site!