[quote name='spinynorman' post='958624' date='Sep 16 2010, 06:13 PM']We looked at the professional route when we revamped our site. The web designers we approached appeared to have reasonable IT skills, but not much in the way of design background. The sites we were shown as references were either badly designed, or totally unsuitable for a band. In the end I downloaded a free copy of NetObjects Fusion Essentials and did it myself.
The problem is I think that the website template, content management stuff is the easy bit. It's been commoditised already by software, Myspace, Joomla, Wordpress, etc. How do you make your site stand out? - not by basing it on a template. One local band has a friend who is a professional graphic artist for a comic publisher, and another who is a semi-pro photographer. They have standout graphics and photos and really none of the rest of it matters.
If you could find a cheap easy way to do customised creative content, we'd bite your hand off. Somehow I doubt that's possible.[/quote]
That last bit...
What do you mean?