Is there a "formula" for a good web site for music bands?

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Posted by dado on June 7, 2006 at 5:50pm

I have some friends in a music band. Of course I want to tell them Drupal is the way to go. But how? Which modules/features work for a music band? Requirements must be pretty standard here:
calendar of performances
perhaps maps
photo gallery
some static pages for about us/member bios/history
some sample songs
news
forum or Yahoo group-like mailing list

Any best practices/lessons learned?

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A good place to start is by

Posted by zirafa on June 7, 2006 at 7:28pm
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A good place to start is by looking at other music websites that use Drupal. Moby.com is one good start. You may find some other ones here: DrupalART active sites list

I think the lesson I've learned is to keep things as super simple as possible. For your requirements I'd look into:

  • event.module for the calendar (integrated with location.module, which allows events to have location information and a link to a map)
  • image.module for the gallery
  • page.module for static pages (core module)
  • audio.module for audio samples
  • story.module and/or blog.module (both core) for posting news or updates
  • forum.module for a forum (core module)
  • simplenews.module for a mailing list/newsletter
  • feedback form (core feature) allows users to send the band an email through a web form

I've had success with that combination of modules. The real trick to selling a band on Drupal is having a nice theme (hey, isn't that what most people care about anyway?). I'd use a nice 2 column layout theme like k2 or anything with a minimal amount of markup. Less markup means it will be easier for you to change and style later (either using CSS or modifying the markup).

thanks

Posted by dado on June 8, 2006 at 8:36pm
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thanks for this well-considered reply. Very sound advice