Final Milestone Progress Update

- Did theme overhaul of entire website with initial search of basic theme formats

- Added a few more blue tones to the website

- Changed the font of the site

- Lined up the capital letters of the logo to make it look smoother and line up better

- Shrunk the logo and slogan to be less intrusive over the rest of the site

- In the video demonstrations and score sheet listing pages, i did a blue gray blue gray alteration for each post in order to break up the content aesthetically so users don't get lost in a sea of gray or blue.

- Added and moved content in login, new user, and archive boxes on the right side of the content page in order to prevent the words from bleeding over

- Capitalized User Profile Titles and How to Make a video titles in order to better distinguish between the heading and the actual user information and links.

- Moved links that are available to everybody below the logo and slogan

- Placed Username and all registered user links in the upper left hand corner when the user logs in. Placed below logo but above the general links.

- Made the whole content window centralized regardless of window size and as a result set the content area to fixed width rather then fluid.

- Attempting to an image of notes in the background of the content which would be slightly low opacity so as to not over dominate the text. Considering adding it to the outside content area background. Not successful so far.

- Getting contributors was difficult for one reason, people just didn't have the time to do this in the time frame given them.

- Sent email after email to old high school professor and got no response, discovered she wasn't even in school and had a sub so that's fallen through for now.

- Worked with Sam to try and get cron job to delete video files on my server after they have been processed....no success thus far.

- Working with Sam on trying to allow the search feature to search within users profiles to find the users who play the instruments they need...no success at this point.

- Downloaded advanced profile module to try and help with the feature stated directly above and are currently trying to figure out how it works.

- I reduced the number of survey questions down to 8

- Personally added one video to the website and plan on adding one more.

- Got 1 person to contribute to a forum post, score sheet post, and two video posts

- Plan on having a stack of business cards on the table at Capstone night as well as a few post cards.

Changes Between 2nd and 3rd Milestone

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- Added a spam module to reduce the amount of automatic spamming and other Spamming in Uploads, Forums, and other user posting areas.

- Added tutorial links for iMovie, Windows Movie Maker, digital videos, camera tutorials, and a tutorial on video equipment.

- Added a way to relate/tag a score sheet when uploading a video and/or tag a video when uploading a score sheet on the upload forms.

- Specified on video upload to keep the videos under 10 minutes each as specified by Youtube.

- Installed captcha and recaptcha to help prevent non-human users from contributing content to the website in addition spam.

- Updated postcard, business card, and poster to account for bleeding and format issues as well as updating a possible capstone date on poster.

- Wrote up a statement of request for users to upload teaching content.

- Posted to all known music folders on first class as well as emailing the head of the music department and had her forward to all music professors.

- Added more requests to the pool, NMDnet, and my personal blog for this class

- Personally met with old high school teacher and she agreed to make videos for me and distribute promotional items to her students upon my confirmation of content being added to the site.

- Pep band professor liked the concept of my website and wanted to meet with me about it….has not had time to set anything up with me yet.

- Added BETA to the title/slogan area in order to let those know that this site is under testing.

- Added a description field for the image upload as well as in the score sheet link

Help Request

I am working on building a website for my senior capstone and I need your help. PLEASE READ.
It is a free website that offers young musicians and professionals to have a place to post their original/non-copyrighted scores of music through educational/instructional videos as well as written score sheets. This site is geared towards having users teaching and helping users learn all things related to the musical instrument. The goal of this site is to have you, the user, provide the content. It is important users on this site come to the aid others, give a sense of a supportive community, so they can learn the art and joy of music. Anyone is allowed to view the videos, score sheets, and add comments. However, you must have a user account in order to upload content.
I am looking for users, who right now, have prior knowledge of music and are able to contribute these instrument educational videos.These videos do not have to be long. Keep the videos to less then 10 minutes. I would like my users to teach how to play an instrument that they feel they are strongest in. You can demonstrate the instrument of your choosing. It can cover the basics of playing that instrument, or it can be more challenging lessons for those users who want to push their talents further. As long as it is relevant to the instrument. You could even show them how to read the music for that instrument, how to keep time, or even how to write music for that instrument. As you can see, the possibilities of what to show users is endless. Also if you don't have a lot of time just adding 1 video would be extremely helpful and then you can contribute at your own pace. If you need more information I would be happy to help.

Musicians Unite

Things accomplished since Milestone 1 & Future Plans

- Did extensive research and debugging on video processing problem over the course of 3 weeks with the help of Sam Hunting (can back up statement)

- Have video capable of both upload to YouTube as well as showing up on website finally

- Created a new website slogan

- Created a viewable menu for each type of content where the user can sort the video or score sheet by post date, title, or user. This allows them to browse just the video or just the score sheets without having to search and know what you are looking for.

- Created a general page where it describes to the user the basic way you can create a video.

- Changed the 2 upload link titles to match the primary links

- Moved the search and forums out of the user navigation to the primary link bar and made both available to anonymous users.

- Did a partial alpha test by getting classmates to create an account and fill out what they wanted on their profile as well as test the image upload. Could not get an accurate video upload test, as it was not working at the time.

- Increased the upload limit from 8mb to 256mb. Can increase up to 2GB if necessary.

- Created a concise business card to place and give to people randomly as well as strategically.












- Created a promotional post card. Plan to place in music business’ with a free sign on them






















- Edited last question on survey, have not put on website yet but plan on adding it as a link on website.

- Plan on getting those students with music experience to create videos in a week and a half and upload them to my site.

- Plan on getting in touch with music department and getting professors to create videos as well as well as account and help give me feed back.

- Over break plan on getting in touch with old high school/middle school and see who would be interested in participating there

- Ghant Chart

Progress over Christmas Break & Before First Milestone Review

Progress

- Got rid of style box around content area

- Took a while to properly adjust the positioning of my website to prevent content and text cut off on the edges on smaller laptop/desktop screens

- Adjusted color scheme from green and blue to 3 different shades of blue and some grey bluish-gray text

- Moved dark blue bar to just be underneath the navigation and the primary links. Logo now has content color background helping to open up the closed in content feeling

- Got site live and not just locally on computer

- Added a site description for those who are new to the site on the homepage

- Created navigation bar for a user friendly interface

o Forum

o Image Upload

o My account

o Video Upload

o Search (moved from right sidebar, advanced search feature added, can search for content or by user) (fully functional)

o Logout

- Added a logout option for user

- Created forum link for users to freely and easily communicate with each other (fully functional)

o 5 forum subjects created

§ General Discussion

§ Instrument Lesson Search

§ Looking for lessons in person, in my area

§ Need to learn how to read music

§ Need to learn how to write/arrange music

- Got rid of recent comments option since users can see comments on individual items as they browse

- Added archive viewing ability to see what was uploaded in past months

- Got both image and video upload forms finally show up for users on the website

- Image upload form uploads to the site properly

- Content promotes to the front page

- Created a youtube channel for Musicians Unite

- Got videos to upload to youtube on the UniteMusicians channel

- Worked on trying to get those uploaded youtube videos to appear on my website

- Discovered a Glossary feature in the views module that has the potential to organize the videos by the first letter in the title of the video, don’t have working yet.

- Created link called tracker: if a user clicks on another users profile, they can see the content that user has contributed to the site

- Added additional information fields that users can have to share information about themselves with other users (Experience level, real name, gender, contact number)

- Posted bug and help requests on multiple forums to get help on the video processing problem

- Worked on promotion ideas…See other blog: http://hockeyismyjoy.blogspot.com/2010/01/blog-post.html

A. Identify Your Audience
1. My capstone’s ideal target audience is musicians looking to teach others the ways of playing an instrument, reading, and writing music. On the flip side, I am focusing on users who wish to learn all there is to know about reading music, writing music, and playing an instrument. A peer-to-peer social network where users help each other.
2. The users that are closest to my target audience would have to be the members of the UMaine Pep Band. All the on campus musicians and groups are what I am looking for. I also have access to my old high school band.
3. Kristy Yeaton, Christopher Cotreau, and Aaron Sanders might be people that I would collaborate with because they are all doing something related to music and we could help each other out getting users and content. This would also serve well in advertising for each other’s projects with our own Capstones.

B.Identify your promotion strategies
1.I will post a link with description in all folders found related to instrument music on First Class.
i.Pep Band
ii.Symphonic Band
iii.Marching Band
iv.Music Student Teaching
v.Trumpet
vi.Flute
vii.Music Minors
viii.University Orchestra
ix.Brass Class
x.Maine Music Organization
xi.Musician Coalition
xii.Announcements & Alerts
xiii.New Media Society
xiv.Debating posting to Signing groups to get more people
2.Other Online link Posts:
i.Facebook Profile and music groups
ii.Have my mom, who is a teacher; forward my email to my old middle/high schools band director and her students in Millinocket. See if she can also forward my link/description to the East Millinocket/Medway bands.
iii.Good idea to post requests to the pool for reviews and participation
iv.Post to the NMD Website
3.Offline
i.Place posters in 1944 hall, New Media Department, Old High School
ii.Considering making postcards and giving them to classmates to hand out to people they know would be interested
iii.Considering putting a demo of the site on YouTube

C.Choose sampling mechanism
1.Hand-picked seems to be the best mechanism for me. Random is too risky for a user-content heavy startup project like mine. Mass-invited might work for me as well to get as many people as possible, but I feel that the chances of getting the right music oriented people is not in my favor

D.Choose feedback format
1.I am not quite sure what is the most appropriate action to take for my website. I would think qualitative might be the best for my site since the user is controlling the content and would need more freedom to express how they feel about the website. Categories are needed for my site since there will be a variety of instruments people might want to discuss.

E.Choose feedback aggregator
1.SurveyMonkey.com would be the best site for me to use to compile feedback and data. I should consider using bar graphs because I am sure there will be statistics that I will be easier to read in graph form; Microsoft Excel is what I own so I would probably use that to create these graphs.

Graham Readings/Sustaining Capstone

After reading the many pieces of advice that Graham offered us, 18 Ways to Kill a Startup stood out to me as the best advice for keeping a project or business from crashing upon startup. Having multiple founders to startup is a great suggestion. I know, personally, I sometimes procrastinate slightly more then I should because of being so busy. I can vouch for the fact that if you have others working with you which helps create motivation to get it done. The advice about having a specific user in mine, trying hard enough, and choosing the wrong program is directly correlated with my project and require serious thought and work on in order to make my capstone a success. Graham covers all areas that might break a start up company. I find it really helpful that he not only tells you what not to do, but he also lets you know how you can avoid that from happening. I don’t feel the need to go in depth on the readings since we all read them. However, I do feel these tips are absolutely necessary for one to be successful in the business world. I don’t believe I would personally start my own business, but I would definitely make sure that I was a part of it.

If I were to make my capstone project self-sustaining upon graduation, several things would have to occur. I would definitely need some sort of funding to sustain the yearly cost of maintaining a domain name and hosting provider costs. I would probably need to look for a couple of collaborators to help me or completely take over the programming management of the site over the long term. I do not believe that starting a company would be in my capstone’s best interest. Getting an internship might be a possibility for my project. In getting this internship, I could propose this project to the companies’ board and have them take over the project. If there already is a community dedicated to music in some sort of way, I could have my project join their community and collectively sustain each other. Going to grad school might be beneficial for the fact of taking some business management courses and other things of that nature to further my knowledge in being able to sustain my capstone beyond graduation. As far as the content of my website, the users will be sustaining the content themselves.

Logo Redesign

Ghant Chart Revamp

Revamped Last years Poster into New Updated Poster

Opening and Closing Statements

These are my opening and closing statements for my presentation for my capstone.

OPENING
Musicians Unite is a website where users are in control of the content for all things original and educational in music.

CLOSING
That is my progress so far with this site and I hope you look forward to what is to come next.

Updated Capstone Project Timeline

Computer-free Capstone

The core of my capstone is to provide those with little financial means to be able to find free or cheap ways of learning how to play an instrument, learn how to read/write music, and get exposure as a band/song writer. Everything will be customer driven except initially when the project is starting out as a way to entice business and interest.
I would try to find a small room where I could start a place where people could go who were looking for what I stated above. I would start with getting music education majors to help provide lessons for people at this location. They could take this lesson elsewhere but this would be the place to go to get connected with someone who could give those lessons for free or for cheap. It would be perfect since college kids would not charge too much and yet any income is welcome. Bands trying to make a name for themselves could perform at this location that people come to for lessons and they would hear this band playing. In this particular idea, since I have Photoshop skills and Illustrator skills, I could also offer to create posters for people to help advertise for their bands.

Simulation

Musicians Unite Demo

Updated Ghant Chart and Bibliography From Research

Abstract
A free website that offers young musicians and professionals alike, to have a place to advertise their scores of music, educational videos, as well as just music videos of demonstrations of their written scores.

Why
With the economy still in a recession and many families cutting back on expenses, children don't have the funds they need to pursue their musical interests and skills. Adults looking to make a name for themselves as a musician, song writer, or music teacher have a way to get themselves out there in a no cost environment. If they so choose at a later time to charge fees for their services and videos, they may do so by adding contact information where you can arrange private sessions, methods of payments, etc via the contact information in the user profile.

Where
Granted there are already a few similar sites out there, but as far as i've seen, none of them are free to users or are primarily user driven. They have the ability to upload any instrument related music they want. If they do not see a category for the instrument they desire, the user simply emails the website coordinator and that will be changed as soon as possible. It is a lot more helpful because you can just click on the desired instrument or search for a specific user that is known for doing a good job. Schools that are cutting back music programs are some of the places that would need a site like this the most.

Bibliography

Title: Music Lessons Enhance IQ

Link: Musiciq

Description: It relates to my capstone because it is a research report that proves that IQ benefits do come from music lessons

Title: Nintendo Bringing Wii Music to Schools

Link: http://www.escapistmagazine.com/news/view/88636-Nintendo-Bringing-Wii-Music-to-Schools

Description: This link relates to my capstone in-directly. My site is focused on music lessons and a site that teaches music lessons is no good if kids are not interested in music in the first place.

Title: Music-Related Hearing Loss

Link: http://www.uncg.edu/mus/mri/hearing.html

Description: This site is very important the my site in the sense that if you are indeed a person on this site looking for lessons and not to make a name for themselves, then you are new at everything. Controlling the decibels you play at is also important in learning music.

Title: Music Theory

Link: http://www.musictheory.net/

Description: This site gives you lessons in how to actually read music, basic scales clefs, note durations, general trainers, and chord and staff generators for you. It is a controlled site that has the most basic fundamentals of music there is to learn.

Title: Music Lessons

Link: http://sethgodin.typepad.com/seths_blog/2008/01/music-lessons.html

Description: This is related to my site because you come to my site to learn music and/or try to get your work out there to make a name for yourself in the business. This blog lets people know about what it is like, what to expect, and how to survive in the music business.

Title: Taylor Robinson Music

Link: http://www.taylorrobinsonmusic.com/

Description: This site is similar in that it offers lessons, but in different things and more limited instrument range from pro musicians.

Title: Musika

Link: http://www.musikalessons.com/

Description: This site is similar to mine in that it offers a variety of instrument lessons, but it costs you money and is run by teachers who are constrained by the system in which they were taught how to teach like the government thinks they should whereas my site has the people providing the content with just as much if not more to offer.

Title: Berklee Shares

Link: http://www.berkleeshares.com/

Description: This site is similar in the fact that it offers a few free music lesson, however, you still must enroll. This site is run by a large corporation which my site is trying to avoid to stick with the new media theme of bringing things back to the community.

Title: Music Lessons: Find a Private Teacher

Link: http://www.privatelessons.com/

Description: This site is relevant to mine because it is a place where you can go to find the music lessons you are looking for, however, this one is focused on finding you a music teacher that you need for your specific needs.

Title: USA Music Lesson Teachers

Link: http://www.musiclessonteachers.com/

Description: This site is also similar to mine in the fact that it allows you to look for music lessons. This website is focusing on a massive search for certified teachers for the entire USA and business's and schools of music.

What
A no cost website, except for the users discretion, will allow those with no way to learn or get there stuff out there in their budget. Anything that is not copyrighted will be allowed on this site. You can upload, select the instrument you wanna view videos or scores for, comment on others videos, I propose getting people on board by having a free sign up sight that allows you to get yourself out there without cost to you, to help others who can not afford a music education or private lessons, and an easy way to teach someone without having to leave your home. I expect that in it's beta version it won't be a smash hit, however, it will increasingly improve as suggestions are made and the site is upgraded.

When
I expect a full concept to be developed by the end of September as well as all my features of my site to be thought out. During that time, I will also be working on the coding on the features I know will be part of the website. I expect an alpha version to be up by the beginning of November and a beta version to be up by the time December hits. While the alpha and beta version are being worked on, I will also work on promoting the project.



Who
If I run into coding snags, I plan on getting myself some coding advice to get my project realized. I will work with classmates critiques to further my project to it's full potential. I expect users during my testing of my website to be part of the collaboration in the manner of features and things they might like to have on a site such as this.

How


I plan on posting the link to my website on all my public pages on the internet. I will create lots of posters to post up all over the place. I also will give the website along with a description of what it is to middle and high-schools in the Bangor area and give it to the music departments.

Budget, Ghant Chart and proposal update

Abstract
A free website that offers young musicians and professionals alike, to have a place to advertise their scores of music, educational videos, as well as just music videos of demonstrations of their written scores.

Why
With the economy still in a recession and many families cutting back on expenses, children don't have the funds they need to pursue their musical interests and skills. Adults looking to make a name for themselves as a musician, song writer, or music teacher have a way to get themselves out there in a no cost environment. If they so choose at a later time to charge fees for their services and videos, they may do so by adding contact information where you can arrange private sessions, methods of payments, etc via the contact information in the user profile.

Where
Granted there are already a few similar sites out there, but as far as i've seen, none of them are free to users or are primarily user driven. They have the ability to upload any instrument related music they want. If they do not see a category for the instrument they desire, the user simply emails the website coordinator and that will be changed as soon as possible. It is a lot more helpful because you can just click on the desired instrument or search for a specific user that is known for doing a good job. Schools that are cutting back music programs are some of the places that would need a site like this the most.

What
A no cost website, except for the users discretion, will allow those with no way to learn or get there stuff out there in their budget. Anything that is not copyrighted will be allowed on this site. You can upload, select the instrument you wanna view videos or scores for, comment on others videos, I propose getting people on board by having a free sign up sight that allows you to get yourself out there without cost to you, to help others who can not afford a music education or private lessons, and an easy way to teach someone without having to leave your home. I expect that in it's beta version it won't be a smash hit, however, it will increasingly improve as suggestions are made and the site is upgraded.

When
I expect a full concept to be developed by the end of September as well as all my features of my site to be thought out. During that time, I will also be working on the coding on the features I know will be part of the website. I expect an alpha version to be up by the beginning of November and a beta version to be up by the time December hits. While the alpha and beta version are being worked on, I will also work on promoting the project.



Who
If I run into coding snags, I plan on getting myself some coding advice to get my project realized. I will work with classmates critiques to further my project to it's full potential. I expect users during my testing of my website to be part of the collaboration in the manner of features and things they might like to have on a site such as this.

How


I plan on posting the link to my website on all my public pages on the internet. I will create lots of posters to post up all over the place. I also will give the website along with a description of what it is to middle and high-schools in the Bangor area and give it to the music departments.

Text-based New Media Proposal

Abstract
A free website that offers young musicians and professionals alike, to have a place to advertise their scores of music, educational videos, as well as just music videos of demonstrations of their written scores.

Why
With the economy still in a recession and many families cutting back on expenses, children don't have the funds they need to pursue their musical interests and skills. Adults looking to make a name for themselves as a musician, song writer, or music teacher have a way to get themselves out there in a no cost environment. If they so choose at a later time to charge fees for their services and videos, they may do so by adding contact information where you can arrange private sessions, methods of payments, etc via the contact information in the user profile.

Where
Granted there are already a few similar sites out there, but as far as i've seen, none of them are free to users or are primarily user driven. They have the ability to upload any instrument related music they want. If they do not see a category for the instrument they desire, the user simply emails the website coordinator and that will be changed as soon as possible. It is a lot more helpful because you can just click on the desired instrument or search for a specific user that is known for doing a good job. Schools that are cutting back music programs are some of the places that would need a site like this the most.

What
A no cost website, except for the users discretion, will allow those with no way to learn or get there stuff out there in their budget. Anything that is not copyrighted will be allowed on this site. You can upload, select the instrument you wanna view videos or scores for, comment on others videos, I propose getting people on board by having a free sign up sight that allows you to get yourself out there without cost to you, to help others who can not afford a music education or private lessons, and an easy way to teach someone without having to leave your home. I expect that in it's beta version it won't be a smash hit, however, it will increasingly improve as suggestions are made and the site is upgraded.

When
I expect a full concept to be developed by the end of September as well as all my features of my site to be thought out. During that time, I will also be working on the coding on the features I know will be part of the website. I expect an alpha version to be up by the beginning of November and a beta version to be up by the time December hits. While the alpha and beta version are being worked on, I will also work on promoting the project.

Definitely not fully ironed out in time spent. Will be when Ghant chart is created.
Concept and Research: 2 weeks
Advertising and Concept: 2 and a half weeks
Programming: 1 month and a half

Who
If I run into coding snags, I plan on getting myself some coding advice to get my project realized. I will work with classmates critiques to further my project to it's full potential. I expect users during my testing of my website to be part of the collaboration in the manner of features and things they might like to have on a site such as this.

How
PHP class $900
Programmer $20/hour for 26 hours = $480
Advertising $80
Web Hosting Provided by the university of maine
Database connection Provided by the university of maine
Total $1,460

I plan on posting the link to my website on all my public pages on the internet. I will create lots of posters to post up all over the place. I also will give the website along with a description of what it is to middle and high-schools in the Bangor area and give it to the music departments.

Prototype and Feature List

I currently have one php feature working on my website and therefore still considering this a early prototype. The working prototype is on the following link Musicians Unite.

The following is a rough list of what I believe are the main features that I would like to have if I could and it will be modified as needed as the project continues:

For my webiste I will need code that allows me to have a:

-user log in

-user log out.

-page to edit users profile

-a page to view a users profile

-code to leave the option for users to comment on a particular video

-pages to views videos by instrument

-code to upload videos

-code to upload sheet music

-code to automatically add page numbers to as people add videos and sheet music

- a way to remove users and/or videos that violate copyright issues

-eventually maybe i would have some way to rate each video as well, the user page would have contact information if they wanted to charge for their services

Summer Progress

Initial Proposal

I want to have a website where people can go to contribute and find video tutorials on how to play an instrument and score sheets.

My project requires a computer/internet, code, videos, and score sheets. I’m still acquiring video tutorials and the necessary PHP knowledge. I need to do plenty of research on what’s already available out there and find videos and score sheets to put up as starter material on the website. Still need more PHP knowledge to make this a reality. I might require PHP assistance..

New Media is all about collaboration and the bottom-up methods which is the goal of my site to have the users contribute the majority of the content. It is very similar to sites that already have sites that provide instrument lessons and score sheets, but it doesn’t seem that the users provide any content.

I plan on sending out the link to popular sites, places, and so on that would use something like this. I will do most of the coding myself, but I might require PHP assistance. There will be a comments page on the site for feedback. I plan on testing it with musicians who know or don’t know on how to play well on campus, and I plan to get in touch with the local school band directors to get their take as well as their students.

Faculty Feedback

This again is a proposal that requires considerable input from non-stakeholders. How does Kristen propose to get these people on board? Will they have the NMD and teaching skills to produce video tutorials on such complex subjects? Where will she find them and what help shall she provide?

Kristen, did you do extensive research of what is out there? Perhaps the only thing from other sites like this one is that it might be free. There are several (well more then that, but quality is a question) sites already doing this. What makes this unique? Why is another needed? How is it more helpful? Why is it necessary? A theme seems to be running though these as to why are these capstone ideas not being vetted in terms of things already done? Also Bill's comment of wide buy-in from professionals is required and some may not want to play for free...

Faculty conclusion

Conceptual Hold

It will help your case if you can demonstrate a working knowledge of PHP by the end of the summer.

Technical Hold

Why wouldn't a prospective trumpet player just do a YouTube search? What does your project offer that's significantly better? We suggest you consider collaborating with another student working on an interactive training project (Max, Kristen I, Kristy).

RESPONSE TO FEEDBACK

A person can add several tutorials to get people's interest in their lessons and then leave contact info if they want the rest of the person’s lessons and the guy can get paid for their services. The method of payment would not be conducted through this website that would be up to the user and the tutorials. or if they want to do it out of the kindness of their heart, they can add all of their tutorials. Unless I am not using the appropriate key search terms I have seen no website that offers this for free and has a user driven site with a variety of instruments.

This is unique in the sense that it is free and it is up to the discretion of the user how much if not all of their work is free for users. There are many out there but a lot of them either you have to pay to be a member or pay for the individual lesson, or only focus on one type of instrument. Professionals will be able to leave samples of their work on this site to peak interest and they can provide a link to their site or contact information so that they may still do things the way they see fit. Another is needed to provide that variety of instruments that is free to users yet this sight allows those that post to charge if they want to. It is a lot more helpful because you can just click on the desired instrument or search for a specific user that is known for doing a good job. You can argue that this has been done before, but I feel this site provides more freedom and flexibility to all users and is a navigation friendly site.

You don't need nmd skills to turn on a video recorder, connect to the comp, and upload a video. They are doing new media like things just by participating in this websites innovation. This would be a place where people who have the ability to write sheet music and what not and are trying to get themselves out there that would be for using this site, such as college students. I could provide a contact email if the profile user is having a hard time with something, i could either personally help them or recommend sites for them to turn to. People who have prior knowledge of how to write sheet music and can demonstrate in video how to play and stuff like that. This is intended to be for amateurs and professionals a-like. Users who go on this site to learn do not need any skill, they just pick up from the ones who do submit.

YouTube is a massive website full of hundreds of thousands of videos and more often then not you have to use the right search terms just to find what you are looking for. This site would only contain the musical aspect that you are looking for and no searching is required essentially. Just using the main navigation bar would get you where you need. The only searching that would be needed is if a user wanted to find a specific user to get all their videos.

I propose getting people on board by having a free sign up sight that allows you to get yourself out there without cost to you, to help others who can not afford a music education or private lessons, and an easy way to teach someone without having to leave your home.

Granted, my research for this project is not overly extensive, but I am modifying my concept as more research is being done. With a more thought out concept, this sight will stand out from the rest.

Over the summer

I took a 3 week PHP class to learn the necessary coding skills to make my project a reality. I got some coding started on my project, but there is no functionality yet. Here is my website.