www.jims1manband.com

Not completed, but wanted to let my prospects know of open dates through the Events Calender. Will be working on demo and video stuff down the road.

Also have taken on an indp chemical line to boot! Between jobs will hunt out chemical opportunities.

Trying to keep up with gentleman Russ!!!!!!!!

Hi Jim

Nice. Really nice layout.

Best wishes
Jørgen

Jim, I do thee things for a living.

NICE!

Russ

Great layout, Jim. Hope it works out for you.

Gary

Looks great so far, Jim...fine layout.

Good luck with the new site.

Ian

Jim, does your name really have (3) Three 'N''s at the end?

Jim, very nice site. I'm glad to see you are working so much! I can't wait to hear some of your music. Also it so nice to see what you look like after reading your post all these years.

Best wishes,

Paul

Hi Jim,
a good beginning makes a good ending.
I'm thinking about making something the same.

Good luck,
Ian

Congrats Jim, very nice and user friendly.!!!!

Thanks for the comments. Thanks also to Al who pointed out my incorrect last name I guess I got finger happy.

Good job, nice and clean.

Jim, I didn’t know that you were that pretty; great picture and nice keyboard.

Your website looks good; it should bring you lots of work.

Good luck and happy playing, John C.

Jim ... real nice ... what did you use for that? ... could you provide details?
thnx,
t.
PS ... Are ALL your gigs one hour?
t.

Hey t. - I used a Go Daddy template and worked from that. Took a bit, but not difficult. They have 24/7 assistance too. Get a package deal (domain, etc) and just work with them, if you want simple. Most of my jobs are (1) hour. You can cursor over the event to find the times!

Gee thanks Bruno - first time someone's called me pretty since the elders in the front row Hopefully this expense will land a few more jobs.

Impressive. I hope you'll remember to let us know when it's "up and running." Nice work and best of luck.

Dave Rice

Great start, Jim.

I'd suggest including the names of the venues where you perform at your calendar. The times and cities are nice, but leaving out the names seems conspicuous.

Bill,

When Jim does his demo, perhaps you could get those dolly birds for him that you got on your photo shoot!! I know it will cost him!

Maybe he only wants us to hear how he plays. This his first attempt at websites, lets give him a break, he will tart it
up in time I am sure, he has time on his side looking at his photo, which I think is very good.

Tony

Jim you mean finger haaaappppyyyy, I think your front page is good and snappy, you will sit back over time and make a good job of rest of it, I like the photo with the KB on it's end, thats good, where's your Avatar, why not use that photo. Jim there are always people who will find fault, you keep up the good work and nice to share you work with us all. Looks like your in the lead 10 to 2, you have my support.

Good Luck with it.

Tony

Jim,

I too would post the names of the facilities on your calendar, which provides prospective clients the opportunity to both see and hear you perform. A word of advice, though. It has been my experience, and the experience of many, many others of whom I'm personally acquainted, that by and large web sites usually do not produce additional jobs, and they take lots of time to maintain, especially if you have a calendar that needs constant updating. In all the years I had a web site I did not book a single job directly from the site. Consequently, after more than 5 years I decided to drop the domain name and site and continue with my direct mail approach. Direct mail produced a response rate of nearly 25 percent when followed by phone calls and visits to the ADs. That combination works extremely well for ME!

Also, be sure to place your website address on all your business cards, CDs, Letterheads, etc..., so folks can find it. Keep in mind that unless you register with a series of search engines on at least a weekly basis, your site will quickly slide down the list.

Good Luck, Jim,

Gary

A familiar tune from Mr. Hughes...

Jim has been doing this, in the same market as I am, for several years with great success. I think he expects a little more from me than a patronizing. "Looks Good, Jim!" I'd like to see it be even better than it is right now, so I shared a thought from my 16 years of this kind of work.

There's no race here, no one's winning 10-2, sheez...Are you suggesting that two of us don't want it to work for him?

Jim put his big-boy pants on a long time ago...I think he can take it, lol...

(NOTE: I just see that the esteemed Mr. Diamond has weighed in on the same issue I did with the same opinion. I might have my head up my ass, but I'm thinking if both Gary and myself see the same concern and suggest the same remedy, it might..MIGHT...be something for Jim to consider.)

No Bill,

As usual you have the wrong end of the stick, I merely meant that only two of you didn't just say it looks good and leave it at that, in fact Bill this is not the first time you have wadded in with your expertise on Web Site Design. We could all crawl all over everyone’s website and find something we didn’t take to or like. People who do their own web sites have their own ideas; it doesn’t have to be as good as yours or any other for that matter, its personal like writing a letter. I also noted that Jim said it was modest, I presume he will build on that in his own time and his own way hopefully.


Tony

He has my support too, Tony...and as we can see, there will always be those who can't understand your great sense of humor...pity them, don't feed them.

11 to 2 at last count.

BTW...at least Jim's site is up to date; something others seem to pretermit.

Ian

You've mentioned this website out of date thing before. What are you talking about?

If you were paying attention, you would have seen my reply was to Tony's post...not yours.

Tony and I are members in good standing of the Up To Date Web Site Appreciation Society.

It's a very exclusive society, and probably why you may not have heard of it.

Ian

BTW...HAPPY HALLOWEEN!

Are you playing tonight?

Yes, I'm playing with my grandson this evening...



Just an afternoon gig today...