Fishing
I don't like directly asking for help, but my indirect requests have met with little response so far. I really need feedback on my efforts at being a professional musician, both online and in the flesh:
If you have been to my website, what do you think of it? Is it easy to navigate? Is there some functionality or content that you feel the site ( Read more... )
If you have been to my website, what do you think of it? Is it easy to navigate? Is there some functionality or content that you feel the site ( Read more... )
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I found it to be extremely easily navigational and accessible. It is well-font and color-coordinated in that it attracts rather than detracts from the material. More pictures/graphics would be engaging as would mroe sound clips/video clips (I think). Otherwise I think it's good and needs some pimping.
The Recital
I only went to one so I only know what happened at your group recital. The music was good - very good. You don't have to worry about talen and technique. What may help is costume. This area is home to flash, vaudeville, and freakery. Wearing some non-traditional clothing would go a long way in catching the eye of rogue Inman-square type crowds.
Also a little confidence goes a long way. The more you project your voice and give direct, concise conversational points between sets the more people listen. Keep the room clinging to you - put on a show.
You are pretty awesome, just gotta get the word out now.
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Also, I would make the "other people's links" section less prominent, and the tabs at the top more prominent. You want people to stay at your site, not go to other people's. ;^)
Also, I think it is a bit confusing that you provide a lot of commentary in your updates--they are fun to read, but you have a blog too, and I was initially confused about whether the news updates WERE your blog.
I like your website a lot, and think that a few simple aesthetic changes will really make it shine.
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And many of the news items actually are blog posts, technically -- I usually set most blog posts that I categorize as 'news' to also appear on the front page. I suppose I could do with a bit less editorializing, then.
I'll probably put another block or two of internal links above the external links, then. Maybe put up a recent update block.
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And I know most of the pieces aren't viable for horn. I've only written for horn the once (well, there was also a horn in the ten-instrument ensemble for my thesis composition, but in hindsight I don't think well of that piece and am not likely to put it online).
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This is great -- I wish all the music I played in high school and college had that feature.
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This leads to another observation -- despite visiting your website before, this is possibly the first time I have clicked on the name of a work to go to its page. Why? Because the way the page is laid out, I assumed those were links to the store, and didn't investigate them. I looked just now just because you asked us to go kick the tires. And no, I did not read the first sentence on the page, "For more information about specific pieces, click on the title to be taken to the page for an individual work". I don't read web pages linearly, but instead I skip around a _lot_. I'd check to see if anyone else made my error before making any changes based on it, though. I might be weird. :P
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