Originally Posted By: Matt Finley
I'm a big fan of Note's work. <...> I would rather Bob concentrate on making styles, and I can overlook the older appearance of his site. <...>

Bob, carry on. Your work is much appreciated.



Thanks for the kind words, Matt.

I have 4 new style disks and 4 new fake disks completed. I'm working on the installation routines for Mac and PC, HTML code for the web site, CGI for the Shopping Cart, some triple checking for accuracy, and other details. I'm hoping for a release this month.

Of course, unexpected delays can happen. I did a huge page of HTML code and it wasn't working. It took the better part of a day to find that I put a ' where a " belonged. Slow shift finger I suppose.

The new disks are from the top of our request list. There's some jazz, rock, country, EDM, Latin American, European, and even Television styles and/or songs.

I'm lucky enough to be gigging a lot in the Winter (it is "the season" here in Florida). After Easter the US winter residents and our Canadian guests go home, and that gives us more time to work on BiaB.

The new styles are MIDI, the new fake disks have both MIDI and Real Track style suggestions.

I write and maintain my own web site. By not contracting the job out, I can charge less for my styles. That saves my customers money. What a lot of people don't realize is that as soon as you go into business, everybody wants a piece of the profits. Your insurance goes up, your property taxes go up, the bank wants a piece of your deposits, the Visa/MC merchant's account wants a flat rate plus a percentage, the Visa/MC authorization company wants a piece of the action, shopping cart costs money, web host costs money, sub-contractors get paid, and the legal advice is expensive (however, I've been audited by BMI twice and came out as clean as a whistle, so it was well worth it).

So a self-made website saves me money and that also saves you money. Some people don't like the way it looks. Other people have told me that they like the clean look and compared it to a search engine in looks. Can't please them all. Me? I don't think it's bad, but it's not stupendous either. I'd rather spend more time creating music products than learning more advanced website design, and I'd rather save both myself and my customers money by doing it in-house.

That's my story and I'm sticking to it wink

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