Pro D’ZYNES will be proud to share the whole 5th floor of the Sonoma Building with two other artistic staples of the Western Mass community in Aguila Recording Studio and Imagine Photographic Studio.

These three studios under one roof will provide a one stop destination for aspiring recording artist, small businesses and non profit organizations looking for:

• Live Music Recording
• Radio Jingles
• Voice Overs
• CD Cover Design
• Logos
• Web Design
• Online Marketing
• Print Marketing
• Wedding Photography
• Yearbook Photos
• Professional Head shots
• And much much more

Abimael Robles (Aguila), Javier Negrón (Imagine) and I are very excited to bring this venture together and look forward to continue providing the best level of service and top notch products to the Western Mass area.

In the middle of last September I decided it was time to put a little more time into my work as I knew my website was an extension of me. As a freelance designer it’s important to make a good first impression and I knew the old design was not doing that anymore.

So here it is, this new design is not only bigger and wider than the last one but also easier to navigate. It also contains a lot more information that I hope will better educate the visitors of the site.

Let me know your thoughts in the comments section below and by all means if you have any issues with the new site let me know.

For a very competitive price we will create a high quality custom twitter background that will garner attention and followers. We will work closely with our clients to create exactly what they want or their money back. Learn more over at TwitrBacks.com.

For those who don’t have a need to brand their twitter profile we also offer a great selection of free twitter backgrounds in different styles with many more to come every week.

I thought it was the bees knees. I found a reliable reseller that everyone in the hosting community raved about and I thought, “wow I can have the best of both worlds”. I found a good reliable service that I had control over and made a little money on the side, or so it seemed. Everything was rolling along just fine over at PropioWeb, that is until I had to start having to do a bunch of extra work I shouldn’t be doing as a web designer.

Setting up hosting accounts are not the issue. I invested in WHM managing and billing software that streamlined setup, invoicing and stuff like that but what I find is the problem is with non paying customers, or customers who change their credit cards, or those whom I have to walk through everything that comes with hosting, email for example. I lost count how many times I’ve had to go over email setup with my clients.

Since when is web design about customer support or email troubleshooting or web hosting payments? I’m already knee deep in it and have no problem helping my clients but if you are just starting out and are wondering what to do, don’t do what I did. Find yourself a fast reliable host, there are many out there. Some even offer affiliate programs so you still get a slice of the pie. Let the web host worry about hosting and you worry about making awesome websites!

My 2 cents.

Bandcamp not only allows you to upload your music for digital sales, sharing and streaming but go a step further offering musicians quite a few additional features all for free.

• Custom Header: with the custom header you are able to personalize the bandcamp experience a bit but they’ve take a step further. You can now include an image which allows you to include the navigation from your site. See some examples in their blog.
• Custom Backgrounds/Colors: yet another way to customize the experience
• Index Page: Have multiple albums? No problem use their new Index Page feature and add all your albums to a centrally located page. See some examples in their blog.
• Custom URL: with all that bandcamp has to offer you could essentially use it as your only website but for those who already have a website you can setup a subdomain such as music.mydomain.com
• Your Music: They offer your tracks in mp3, AAC, FLAC, Ogg. Choose between giving away your music by joining your email list, let your fans set a price (you can set a minimum) – it’s up to you.
• Sharing: just click the Share link and your fans can spread your music all over the web including all the top social networks, email and more.
• See a complete list of their services.

Sure iTunes and Amazon MP3 are the big boys and your music will be potentially be in front of millions of people but they keep a chunk of your money and for many independent artists that is just not worth it.

Bandcamp is free, yes I know, it sounds too good to be true but yet it is… true. Once you setup your account give them your paypal email address and all the money will go to you. PayPal has it’s fees but nominal compared to iTunes and others.

In the end what I loved most is the transparency they allow you to have for such a robust offering of tools. You could potentially setup your bandcamp page to seamlessly go between your website and back.

Good work guys keep it up.