Favicons. After I tell you what they are, I promise you’re going to want your own right away, so keep reading. To see what a favicon is, first open your Internet browser of choice (Firefox, Chrome, etc.) and take a look at the tabs you have open (tabs appear when you have multiple sites open in the same browser window). At the top of each tab you should see the title of the website you’re viewing, for example: “Google” or “The New York Times.” And just to left of the site title, you should see a very small image. This is the favicon. It’s not terribly difficult to create and implement your own favicon, and I’m going to take you through the process step-by-step. Continue reading
How can I get my own Wikipedia page? This is a question I’ve been hearing a lot lately. And I’ll confess that, until recently, I did not know the answer. I remember for a long time hearing that anyone can write and publish a Wikipedia page. But if anyone can write one, I always wondered – where’s the quality control? Who’s making sure that blatantly false information isn’t all over the web? In truth, Wikipedia does have quite a tremendous quality control system in place (you guess it – there’s a Wikipedia page to tell you all about it – 
These are the questions on every musician’s mind today: How do I sell my music online? What are my options? Do I have to give a percentage to a third-party-service? What’s ultimately the best choice? If answers to these questions are what you’ve been looking for – look no further. For these are the very issues I’m going to address in this blog post designed for those musicians looking to extend their music shop into the online realm. 
The number one question artists have when starting the website development process is “will I be able to update my own gig calendar?” – and rightfully so. One of the most important aspects of your website as an artist is the ability to communicate to your audience when and where they can hear you – and the ability to keep this calendar constantly updated.
I’ve had a lot of people asking me about SEO lately, and it’s no wonder. For those of you who don’t know, SEO stands for Search Engine Optimization. In layman terms, it means things you can do to your website’s code to help it rank higher in a Google search for the words/phrases you want it to. Sound like a good thing? It sure is. Archives
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