MySpace.com the New Music Web Design for Rockers

by Kelly Richardson
kelly.richardson@graphicdesignschoolreview.com
Graphic Design School Review Columnist

With an unconventional web design, MySpace.com is rewriting the rules of unsigned music. Fans use the social networking service to listen to cuts, read about big shows, and become a part of the music scene.

MySpace’s grassroots web design allows emerging bands to reach a ravenous public without looking like posers. Fans can listen to clips of a band's latest release, see promotional material, and follow tour dates in one convenient website. Bands and managers with no formal web design training can quickly launch a site on the service.

MySpace.com: Web Design for Everyone

• Startling Submissions. MySpace.com web design emphasizes a connection to over 600,000 professional and independent bands.
• A Waiting Public. Despite a web design that makes some people cringe, more than 43,000,000 people used the site in the last year.
• Ingenious Design. The original MySpace web design has been morphed to allow more interactivity – and more advertising.

Of course, a strong community on MySpace should encourage fans to visit a band’s own website. Students in web design training programs can usually find bands that are more than willing to trade tickets and discs for a great portfolio piece.

Web Design: High Tech Training

• Environment. Web design training will prepare you to work in high tech web design studios, like those at major record labels and management agencies
• Outlook. Today’s complex, animated sites require creative and well-trained web design professionals.
• Education. Web design training is typically a two or three year program.

Your creativity and technical skills can become an exciting career when you get your web design training from an accredited program.

About the Author
Kelly Richardson covers the local education and technology scenes in major cities across the country. His articles appear in a variety of respected educational journals, periodicals, and e-zines. Kelly holds a bachelor degree in English and master degree in education from Georgia State University.