I've built websites and web applications (as hobby and professionally) since 2001 (though I don't do it much professionally any longer). I no longer suggest this as the best path for anyone not familiar as their primary presence from a musician/band standpoint. No matter how easy it seems, it's not going to be for everyone, including many musicians - thusly it cannot be the default choice. Not to mention, without design experience it's not going to be very presentable without help from others and presentation matters - as evidenced by websites I see that try to do this without that experience.
Secondly, they'll never get traffic comparable to having a presence on other sites that specialize in the social aspect. Those have their problems, I can't/won't address those but whether it be soundcloud, FB or YT it's much easier to get visibility than a lonely website all by itself where you spend all your time trying to get people there. You can use social media to get them there but if you do that, you might as well make that your main presence and use the website as secondary.
It was a better idea 15 years ago, not so much now. I'm not arguing against having a website at all but rather as a primary presence for someone without experience - unless they are a bit geeky, it will lead to frustration, they will need help (probably lots of it) to do this by themselves and have any chance of being visible comparatively.
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