FAQ's: READ FIRST, THEN SCROlL DOWN FOR SAMPLES

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 AS MUCH INFO AS I HAVE AS OF March 2023...

1. GO HERE TO READ ABOUT WHAT GODADDY OFFERS NOW:

https://www.godaddy.com/subscriptions

2. I have been a professional musician for 58 years and I understand what is needed to present a band. I do all the graphics, fixing bad pictures, making everything look best - no other hosting site the size of GoDaddy will give you that service! www.Trickphoto.com (that's my page here on this site showing be and after pics - check out the Per Niente gallery, a Buffalo, NY Magazine that I am the photo editor for!)

I am not an affiliate, but I use GoDaddy sites because they are always up, the tech help is free, the tech support folks are happy to help you...to a point. They will tell you that just purchasing a package does NOT include all the stuff I do like photo editing and they charge $XXX.00 to build a site and I’m not sure how far they go before they curtail their help to be honest, but I am a mostly retired guy and can afford to be helpful beyond what they can and generally there will be no serious wait time.  One more thing: It still includes SSL security FREE - that means an HTTPS secure site. Without SSL security, your customers are vulnerable to hacking during transactions, mis-directions and more!! I personally AVOID sites that are NOT SECURE and GoDaddy gives it to you free. Just go to any site and see if it says "Not Secure" up in the url bar (the website's address bar.) These site owners have opted NOT to pay the extra $$$ for YOUR SECURITY. Godaddy gives it to you free and not just as a built-in cost. I have been with them since BEFORE they offered it free, so I know the price did NOT go up! More on this below in Step 2.

3: You contact GoDaddy and purchase a subscription package (the Essentials Domain Bundle looks good) and then you give me the customer number and password you choose and I build the site. During the build, we log in and I build as you watch (which I think works all the time, but if it does not, I publish the site and you see the results as soon as you refresh your browser.) I publish when finished, after you are happy with it all and then will work with you to add stuff. When we are all done, you change the password if you don't want to pay me a small annual fee to keep it going. That's the start. Obviously we have to talk and get comfortable and then you can reach out to a former customer and see if I've been uncool at any step in the process. I've never had an issue with anyone yet.

STEP 2. You should read up on SSL, but simply put, it enables viewers of your site to contact you, purchase items and more without their personal info being hijacked along the way to your site or once inside it...in addition, Google downplays non secure websites and has been doing so since 2018. Remember 2018? Sounds quaint, doesn’t it?! Read these articles: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Transport_Layer_Security https://www.howtogeek.com/359298/why-does-google-chrome-say-websites-are-%E2%80%9Cnot-secure%E2%80%9D/

After you have read about SSL, go to ANY website (CNN or a friend's) preferably with a security-minded browser like Chrome (or better still BRAVE browser or Duck Duck Go and see if the LOCK icon is to the left of the URL ... if not, it's not fully secure, and in the BRAVE browser, it plainly says: Not secure. That's HOW YOU KNOW, or any variation thereof.

3. The difference between GoDaddy charging you to throw together a site for you and me doing it is the pictures on the site: they will NOT Photoshop them to perfection as I will. I do picture restoration for a living 

4. I build these sites with personal interaction, and I can teach you to edit it yourself in real time, or you can pay me $100.00 a year to maintain and update it.

5. The "Marketing" part: 

The basic ESSENTIALS DOMAIN Bundle seems like the best choice to me at this point - after the first year it goes up to $209.00, but that's with everything included and is tax-deductible to working musicians/promoters/agents. Their e-commerce site with a shopping cart is about $329.00 a year, but that's up to you and YOUR budget. Again, call GoDaddy and use your credit card to make the purchase you choose to and then I do my magic.