To build “I Write Songs At Home,” William Mason chose Sandvox 2. He chose the “Diagonals” design for the site. People may want to visit the site if they are looking for home recording blog.
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Sandvox features used for this site:Blog, External Page, Contact Form, YouTube, RSS Feed Object, Other Objects, Editing HTML of text, Google Integration
Describe your website.
I Write Songs At Home is a blog about home recording. Its purpose is to encourage readers to use modern recording technology to expand beyond the limits of simply being music listeners to become music creators.
Who is the target audience for your website?
Thanks to modern technology, creating music is within the reach of everyone. The site, which is designed for the American market, is intended to be a guide to the inexperienced and a shared journey for the experienced. The only qualification required to get something out of the site is a desire to create music.
What is the advantage of your website over others?
Most home recording blogs, and there are not that many, are built to share the latest technology. This site is about sharing experience.
Tell us a story about this website.
Almost as soon as I put the Sandvox site up I received an email in response to the site from a young man who said he had begun home recording at age 17. His songs had been rejected from a major music forwarding service and he wanted to send me his songs for advice on how to improve his lyrics.
Without listening to his music (that was not my mission, I told him), I shared the story of a young Smokey Robinson who met Berry Gordy before Motown was created. He gave Gordy a bunch of songs he had written for feedback. Gordy went
through them all and told him his lyrics were all over the place, they had no focus.
"A song should tell a story," he told him. "Make each song a single story."
Smokey took the advice seriously and went on to become one of the greatest songwriters of all time.
That shared experience, I thought, was what the web site was all about.
Why did you use this Sandvox design?
I have a preference for colors and style which I was using on the previous site by the same name. I was able to find a design in Sandvox which was close to that, but which enhanced the look more that I would have been able to do on my own.
What techniques did you use to build this website?
My previouse site used Youtube and Quicktime files. I felt that the Sandvox sidebar improved the access to these files.
I also use Statcounter in addition to Google Analytics and was happy with the ease with which that code could be incorporated.
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