(This portion of the artist tutorial is included in the Artist Quick Start Guide.)

Click on the “Modify Artist” button. This will allow you to enter important information such as your artist picture, your biography, and other things. Here’s what that screen should look like...

I’ll give a quick explanation to each of the entries in the form above:

Artist Name: This was the artist name you signed up with at the beginning and you don’t have an option to change it. However, if you would like it changed just send me an email and I’ll be glad to change it for you, especially if you’re changing to your whole real name or group name (you might have guessed I’m not big on the cryptic names).

Artist URL Name: Use this option to create and easy-to-remember shortcut to your site on ezFolk. Just type in whatever you’d like it to be. Don’t use spaces and don’t use capital letters. Just a string of lower case characters is best. For our example artist, whose name is Isaiah Artist, he might type in his entire name, like this:

isaiahartist

This would be the shortcut to his site: http://ezfolk.com/audio/isaiahartist

That’s quite a string. Maybe his nickname is “Izzy” and that’s what he’d like for his shortcut. He can type izzy for his Artist URL name and this would be his shortcut:

http://ezfolk.com/audio/izzy

Member(s):  Enter the names of your group members, or if it’s just you enter your own name.

Location: You’re probably not from Algeria, so click on the drop-down box to select your location. This will help people to find you if they’re looking for artists in your area.

Website: Enter your website if you have another one besides ezFolk. If not, just leave it blank.

Artist Influences: Enter names of artists who have influenced you. This helps if people are searching for artists who are similar to other artists.

Artist Genre: Open the drop-down menu to choose the one genre that most closely describes your music. If you don’t see a genre that you feel fits your music, email me and request that I add a new genre.

Biography: Enter your biographical information.

Below is another graphic showing the information under the biography that didn’t make it in our first screen capture. I’ll explain those options below the graphic.

Show Song Count: Read the description and click on your choice.

Share Your Fans:  Read the description and click on your choice.

Payout Email Address: If you sell digital items from your digital vault (MP3s, etc.) once your earnings reach $10 you will be paid through PayPal, so if you have a PayPal account enter that email address here . This is optional and is only necessary if you’re selling from the vault.

Upload New Artist Image: This is where you upload your main artist photo.

Select Gallery Image: When you click the “Launch Image Browser” button you can choose from photos that you have uploaded to your Photo section. That way you only need to upload a photograph once and can use it in different areas such as for songs and album images as well as your artist image.

Important: After you have made all of these changes be sure to click on “Modify Artist” at the bottom of the page or your changes will be lost.

Also, be sure to click on “Rebuild Your Site” anytime you make any changes so the changes will show up on your site.