Bluebird

Will do, thank you very much!

I'm keeping staff fairly small for now, just the three of us (for now at least), which should get us a couple of posts a day. And I'm happy enough to work at it for very little to get things off the ground. We're all freelancers so have other income coming in. So I'll be sorting out ads only for now. Paid downloads on a music site tends to be ineffective, but a free download of the day usually helps bring in the punters. Word of mouth in this area is pretty valuable, so if I can get a couple of tweets from people I know who are doing well for themselves I'll be able to attract a decent crowd. And hopefully the content of the blog will strong enough to keep them coming back. I know it's going to be a slog to get there, but having a space where I can work on something a bit more expansive than the usual nonsense will be worth it.

Seems to be similar to the music industry. Lots of places are very eager to give you experience (i.e no help + free work for them). But you can only get so much experience before you need to you know...feed yourself. Plus I think you'll get better work as people are thankful you aren't just using them. Taking time to give people advice for nothing is pretty comendable!

Thanks for getting back to me so quickly Ken. Costs are a concern, especially when looking to take on other writers for the site (I hate the idea of asking people to work for the experience, if I can offer something it feels less like I'm taking advantage). So you make a very good point there. You've given me plenty to think about sir, Thanks for the help.

I use Chrome on across all my devices. Having a google account makes everything so simple across phone, tablet and laptop. Plus it's light and quick. The only downside is they are probably using all of my details for nefarious purposes.

Hi folks, I'm thinking of starting my own music site for reviews/interviews/articles and the like. I have a few decent contacts 'in the industry' and have been writing for other sites ad magazines for long enough that I should be fine with that side of things. The problem is, I'm not really sure when it comes to the actualy website part. I looked at Tumblr but it looks like it's over run with kids nowadays, might be hard to tailor it to a wider audience. And I'm not well versed enough in this kind of thing to jump into something like Wordpress. Should I try something like http://website.1and1.co.uk as they seem to do the heavy lifting? Leaving me free to ramble about old obscure Irish punk bands or whatever else I'm on at the time. Any help in this area would be massively appreciated. Thanks.

Flitting between the Bronx and Mariachi El Bronx albums today. Punk and Mariachi make amazing bed fellows.

PS4 :o Well, I didn't physically purchase it, only pre-ordered, but still. I'm so excited!

@up burn! Well, after having seen that photo of the snake you can be sure I'll stay FAR away from Australia (not to mention the heat and sunburns). And to the person who mentioned that Australia is mostly deserts - exactly my point. Although visiting Sydney would be nice (and I imagine all those wild beasts don't really reside in major cities)...

I'm wondering why my upload speed is significantly closer to download speed than it's for everyone else.

This thread hasn't been updated in a while but I'm guessing everyone is listening to the new Daft Punk. It's just too good.