Site Guide — For Randy
Your Site Guide
South Austin, Texas · 512-487-2032 · guitarrr3@gmail.com
Tip: File → Print → Save as PDF. This page is laid out for clean printing.
The Big Picture
Your site is a 24/7 booking machine and a credibility showcase that works while you’re not looking. A festival booker in Georgetown hears your name, googles you, finds a real website with your music, your history, and a booking form that lands in your inbox. That’s the whole play.
You don’t log in anywhere. You don’t update a dashboard. When something changes — a new gig, a new member, a new video — you send me the info and I wire it up. The site never goes stale, and you never have to think about code.
Last year’s site sat there and died. This one won’t, because it doesn’t depend on you remembering to maintain it. It’s designed to survive neglect. But it’ll thrive if you feed it — gigs, photos, names, videos. The more you put in, the more the band gets back.
Tour of Your Site
Home
What they see: Full-screen band shot, your name big, tagline, two buttons (Book the Band / See Upcoming Shows), taste of what you play, recent stages.
What it does: The first impression. A booker spends 5 seconds here before deciding to stay or leave. This makes them stay.
About
What they see: Your story — decades of Austin cred, target rooms, and the band members. Right now: you + three Coming Soon slots.
What it does: Where credibility lives. Faces build trust.
Your part: Send me the other three members’ names, roles, one-line bios, and a headshot each.
Shows
What they see: Upcoming gigs with date, venue, time, Google Maps link. Below: recent past shows. Right now: no upcoming, five past shows.
What it does: Proof you’re active. When there’s no gig, it says “No public shows booked — Book the Band.” Never looks dead.
Your part: When you book a gig, send me the date, venue, time, and address.
Setlist
What they see: Repertoire in four themes — Harmony-Rich 70s, Texas & Southern, FM Deep Cuts, Cult Favorites. Artists, not songs. Sample-set request button.
What it does: Answers “What do you play?” Shows range. Sample-set request is a soft booking hook.
Media
What they see: Live video clips + recent stage photos. Videos are placeholder tiles right now — “Video uploading soon.” Six photos up.
What it does: Video is the most powerful booking tool. 30 seconds of footage books faster than 500 words.
Your part: I have 5 clips encoded. I’ll walk you through uploading to YouTube — 15 min — then I wire them in.
EPK
What they see: Electronic Press Kit — print-ready one-pager: bio, repertoire, members, recent stages, booking info. File → Print → Save as PDF.
What it does: Send this URL to festival bookers, corporate planners, venue talent buyers. It prints clean as a PDF to attach to any email.
Your part: When someone asks for your press kit, send them hourglass-rocks.pages.dev/epk. Or print a few for the gig bag.
Contact
What they see: Booking form (name, email, phone, event date, event type, lineup preference, venue, message) + direct email, phone, Facebook, tip jar.
What it does: Where the money is. Sends a formatted email straight to your inbox. No dashboard, no login — just email.
Your part: Reply within 24-48 hours. I also added “Site update request” as an option so you can use the form to send me changes.
The Booking Form, Explained
What the booker sees: A clean form — name, email, event type, lineup preference, venue, date, message. It feels professional.
Where it goes: Straight to guitarrr3@gmail.com. Subject says “[Booking] Name — Event Type.” Reply-to is the booker’s email — just hit Reply.
Why email: You check email. You don’t check dashboards. The last site had an admin panel nobody logged into. This goes where you already live.
Your part: Reply within 24-48 hours. Fast replies win gigs.
Bonus: “Site update request” is now an option on the same form. Need a change? Fill it out, pick that option, tell me what to change.
The “Never Looks Abandoned” Promise
The last site died because it had a stale calendar for months. Bookers saw a site that hadn’t been touched. That’s worse than no site at all.
This one is built different. No upcoming gigs? It says “No public shows booked right now — Book the Band” with a button. It always looks active.
A show passes? It moves to past shows automatically. It never sits in “upcoming” with yesterday’s date. I handle that — you don’t have to remember.
Bottom line: The site never embarrasses you. It always looks like a working band’s website.
Ready Now vs. Needs From You
✓ Ready & Working
- ✓ All 7 pages live and mobile-optimized
- ✓ Booking form sending to your inbox
- ✓ Your member card (Randy, lead guitar)
- ✓ 5 past shows in the history
- ✓ 4 setlist themes, 24 artists
- ✓ EPK print-ready as PDF
- ✓ Facebook linked and live
- ✓ Phone, Venmo, Cash App wired up
- ✓ SEO set up for Google
- ✓ “Never looks abandoned” fallback active
! Needs From You
- 3 band members: Name, role, one-line bio, headshot each.
- Instagram handle: If Hourglass has one.
- YouTube channel: 5 clips ready to upload (15 min walkthrough).
- New gig dates: Date, venue, time, address.
- TikTok (optional): Only if you want to.
How to Request Updates
You never touch code. You never log in. You just tell me what to change.
Option 1: The form. Go to the Contact page, pick “Site update request” as the event type, tell me what to change.
Option 2: Just tell me. Call, text, or email. No task too small.
Rule: if it’s on the site and it’s wrong or stale, tell me. That’s all.
What’s Coming (Phase Two)
Google Calendar auto-sync: Add a gig to your phone calendar, site updates automatically.
Auto Facebook post: New show on site = auto-post to FB.
AI venue-outreach email drafter: Paste a venue URL, get a drafted booking email to review and send.
Custom domain: hourglass-rocks.com (you own it) = 5-minute attach.
Tell me which would help most — or suggest one I haven’t thought of.
This is your site, Randy.
Built pro bono, because the music deserves a home that doesn’t die. Now go book some rooms with it.
Full interactive version: hourglass-rocks.pages.dev/guide