Disc
Makers Offers Six Months FREE Web Hosting and DIY Web Design to Musicians
PENNSAUKEN, NJ - July 1st, 2005 – Disc Makers has joined forces with CD Baby to make do-it-yourself
web design and hosting easier than ever for musicians. Disc Makers'
web hosting is powered by HostBaby and available for free for the
first six months to any artist who manufactures their next CD project
with Disc Makers - a $120 value. After the six-month free trial, membership
and hosting will be only $20 per month. Artists who do not have a
CD project in the works with Disc Makers can still sign up for a year's
worth of hosting for only $200 - which includes the first two months
for free.
With this service, Disc Makers and HostBaby have integrated a number
of nifty features for artists including an easy-to-use web design
wizard that allows artists to design a great-looking, customized web
site from scratch without having to know HTML code. The design wizard
includes hundreds of pre-built designs into which artists can import
their images, text, and sound files. In addition, the pre-built designs
can be further customized with other fonts and color schemes and layouts
chosen by the artist. Other musician-friendly features include a fully
customizable concert calendar, a simple, yet effective, e-mail list
management and mailing program, automatic conversion of audio files
to streaming audio, a guestbook, and blog functionality (great for
submitting updates and anecdotes from the road).
"This is DIY web design at its finest," exclaims Tony van
Veen, Disc Makers' Executive VP of Sales and Marketing. "We've
worked together with [CD Baby founder] Derek Sivers for two years
to come up with a rich feature set specifically targeted at independent
musicians' online needs. If an artist has high-quality photos, sound
files, and text on a computer hard drive, it's possible now to design
an awesome, custom web site in less than an hour. And I mean custom.
This will not be a cookie-cutter web site, but can be completely customized
to whatever look or vibe an artist wants. It's perfect for musicians
like myself, who know what we want, but don't know web programming.
HostBaby makes it super simple."
Artists' web sites will be hosted on a lightning-fast server for quick
and easy updates, and include a beefy 500MB of storage space, an unlimited
number of e-mail accounts, virtually unlimited data transfer, and
a cool web traffic analyzer. Moreover, HostBaby is run by the same
folks who run CD Baby, so customer service is unparalleled. They will
even help transfer an existing web site to HostBaby for free.
To find out more about the Disc Makers web hosting service for independent
musicians, go to www.discmakers.com/hosting.
About Disc Makers
Disc Makers is the nation’s leading independent media manufacturer,
offering a wide variety of products and services, including complete
CD and DVD replication and custom packaging for independent musicians,
filmmakers, and businesses. The company also offers a variety of additional
products and services including the country’s most popular line
of tower CD and DVD duplicators, automated CD/DVD publishing systems,
disc printers, blank media, and promotional printing services for
artists and corporate clients. The company’s state-of-the-art
manufacturing facility houses full-scale CD and DVD replication lines
and in-house printing, as well as mastering and post production studio
suites, a DVD and CD-ROM multimedia authoring facility, and an award-winning
graphics design studio. Disc Makers’ main office and plant is
located near Philadelphia in Pennsauken, NJ, and the company has regional
offices in Los Angeles, New York City, the San Francisco Bay Area,
Chicago, Seattle, Atlanta, Puerto Rico, and now Nashville.
Media
Contacts:
Ted
Miller Director of Client Services
Max Borges Marketing Solutions
3550 Biscayne Blvd., Suite 501
Miami, FL 33137
(305) 576-1171 x12 tedmiller@maxborges.com
Matt
Shumate PR Specialist
Max Borges Marketing Solutions
3550 Biscayne Blvd., Suite 501
Miami, FL 33137
(305) 576-1171 x15 mattshumate@maxborges.com
Steven
Spatz Director of Marketing
Disc Makers
7905 N. Route 130
Pennsauken, NJ 08110
856-663-9030 sspatz@discmakers.com
