Lord & Griffin Web Solutions Receives 2014 New Orleans Award

Lord & Griffin Web Solutions Receives 2014 New Orleans Award

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Lord & Griffin Web Solutions Receives 2014 New Orleans Award

New Orleans Award Program Honors the Achievement

NEW ORLEANS April 23, 2014 — Lord & Griffin Web Solutions has been selected for the 2014 New Orleans Award in the Web Hosting Company category by the New Orleans Award Program.

Each year, the New Orleans Award Program identifies companies that we believe have achieved exceptional marketing success in their local community and business category. These are local companies that enhance the positive image of small business through service to their customers and our community. These exceptional companies help make the New Orleans area a great place to live, work and play.

Various sources of information were gathered and analyzed to choose the winners in each category. The 2014 New Orleans Award Program focuses on quality, not quantity. Winners are determined based on the information gathered both internally by the New Orleans Award Program and data provided by third parties.

About New Orleans Award Program

The New Orleans Award Program is an annual awards program honoring the achievements and accomplishments of local businesses throughout the New Orleans area. Recognition is given to those companies that have shown the ability to use their best practices and implemented programs to generate competitive advantages and long-term value.

The New Orleans Award Program was established to recognize the best of local businesses in our community. Our organization works exclusively with local business owners, trade groups, professional associations and other business advertising and marketing groups. Our mission is to recognize the small business community’s contributions to the U.S. economy.

Lord & Griffin Web Solutions Receives 2014 New Orleans Award

 

SOURCE: New Orleans Award Program

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New Orleans Award Program
Email: PublicRelations@recognitionawarding.com
URL: http://www.recognitionawarding.com

 

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I know, I know.. I’m in the “web design” business. So why this subject? First and foremost I’m an Entrepreneur and a IT Professional and I understand that in this economy, you have to be budget conscience. Truth is, if you want to have professional designers custom build your site, you must be prepared to dish out at least a few hundred dollars. All this can change if you know where to find the best deals, the best designs for the lowest price. Here’s a rough guide:

First, you must understand that it is a rip off to get most companies to design websites for you. Have you ever seen those advertisements in newspaper classified ad sections that offer a 5-page website at $500? The Avg. website design cost is about $75 to $125 per page. That is for a basic design. These companies are established companies with physical locations, therefore they have to increase the amount they charge to pay off some overheads: office rent, designer’s wages, advertising costs and so on. Always review companies before you get locked into a web design contract or deal. The best way to do this would be to go to Website Magazine.com

Therefore, it would be wise to find freelance designers who work from home. That’s how I started and I still operate in that capacity. Most freelancers are often working from home so they do not have a high operation cost like that of a company. On the other hand, they will be able to design images with quality similar to those of designers from big companies, so it’s a “no-brainer” choice. Lower Costs= More money remains in your pocket.

However, choose freelancers with care.  Before you sign or agree to anything, you should let the web designer review the specs of your website or give them a rough draft of what you think you want and let them present an abstract of your project and get them present a proposal and bid on your project. Shop around, so you get the best deal. Ask for portfolio and references. Doing this will help you you better choose the designers based on their experience, past transactions and customer feedback.

Another route you can take is to design your website yourself (DIY Web design). Think about it, if you only need 5 simple pages to present some simple information, why waste hundreds of dollars for it? Just spend a little time to sit down and do it yourself. You’ll be able to design your own sites even if you do not know a single line of HTML code with the help of WYSIWYG (what you see is what you get) programs such as Microsoft Expression, Adobe Dreamweaver and so on.

We recommend SiteStudio: You can create as many websites as you like with SiteStudio – a charge free Website Builder. It is integrated into our hosting Control Panel and you can use it while working in the Control Panel. Explore our rich database of over 70 business-oriented templates in different color schemes. With SiteStudio your website can go live in about 10 minutes. No technical knowledge or special skills are required!

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A lot of business owners and entrepreneurs start with no money. They have to do everything themselves — the preparation of a product, the development of a marketing strategy, the actual building of a website to cater to their product’s marketing needs. As their business expands over time, they will find that their simple “homemade” site might not be enough to cover everything, and they will have to take a day or two away to simply dedicate that to the website expansion.

Sounds familiar? Chances are, you’re someone who started everything with no money too, so you’re pretty skeptical when it comes to giving away your money in exchange for something that you could have done yourself. However, there is a lot more to hiring a designer than just finishing up a job that you don’t want to do.

When you hire a web designer to do your job for you, you are doing more than just handing over the “dirty job” to someone else. In fact, by paying a little money, you can let the designer handle the tech-side and the little annoyances that always evade the main picture and only come haunting when you’re halfway through the job. That way, you will be more focused and have more time to spend on your actual business strategy.

When seeking a Web Designer, be sure to get credible designers. Shop Around.. the designer should be knowledgeable, skilled professionals and good at what they do. By outsourcing your web design jobs to us, you won’t have to worry when problems surface because we can always get most issues resolved in less than an hour. Our web developers will be able to pin point the problem and fix it faster than most of our competitors .

Also, the work you pay for will turn out more professional than what you can achieve because our award -winning designers  (12 Yrs experience)have been doing it longer than you have. After all, we do it for a living so we have to be good!

Lord & Griffin offers a free initial consultation,  If you’re not certain which web design service to use for your design, or at what price, then we can help. We will recommend the single best and most affordable web site solution for your business, often within hours – and there is no cost or obligation!

Lord & Griffin Web Solutions builds professional, custom websites, as well as template-based websites, and web portal applications for clients from SmallTown USA to Timbuktu. Typical ecommerce site customers range from self proprietors, to small business, to Corporations. Lord & Griffin Web Solutions prices are normally half of what our competitors charge.

It may sound unbelievable but the majority of the big companies in the web development business usually do not invest much in the development of new technologies. Instead they rely on 3rd party solutions and software. Unlike most companies, Lord & Griffin Web Solutions can develop and design these technologies in-house. Moreover, our business approach is human-oriented in that our client support is a center factor in the quality web development service that we offer.

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Good Web Design Practices should never be taken lightly. Your website is where your business resides — it’s like the headquarter of an offline company. When approaching web design, Planning is everything. You should have a blueprint or layout. Hence, it is important to practice good design principles to make sure your site reaches out to the maximum number of visitors and sells to as many people as possible.

 Make sure you have clear directions on the navigation of your website. The navigation menu should be uncluttered and concise so that visitors know how to navigate around your website without confusion. Remember the rule: Keep It Simple. “Simple” doesn’t mean boring..

Reduce the number of images on your website. They make your site load very slowly and more often than not they are very unnecessary. If you think any image is essential on your site, make sure you optimize them using image editing programs so that they have a minimum file size.

Keep your text paragraphs at a reasonable length. If a paragraph is too long, you should split it into separate paragraphs so that the text blocks will not be too big. This is important because a block of text that is too large will deter visitors from reading your content.

Make sure your website complies to web standards at http://www.w3.org and make sure they are cross-browser compatible*. If your website looks great in Internet Explorer but breaks horribly in Firefox and Opera, you will lose out on a lot of prospective visitors.

Avoid using scripting languages on your site unless it is absolutely necessary. Use scripting languages to handle or manipulate data, not to create visual effects on your website. Heavy scripts will slow down the loading time of your site and even crash some browsers. Also, scripts are not supported across all browsers, so some visitors might miss important information because of that.

*Use CSS to style your page content because they save alot of work by styling all elements on your website in one go.

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