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Lord & Griffin Web Solutions Receives 2014 New Orleans Award

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FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

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.

SOURCE: New Orleans Award Program

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

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Why Hire A Designer?

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.

Lord & Griffin Web Solutions also maintains a roster of talented web site developers and graphic designers.
Contact Lord & Griffin Web Solutions to select the best e-business solution for your company.

Remember: Don’t just work your business, but grow your business too!

Web Design: Good Web Design Practices

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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.

Lord & Griffin Web Solutions, Division of Lord & Griffin IT Solutions, is a full service, award winning, web solutions company. Lord & Griffin Web Solutions strives to provide all-inclusive web hosting services, which includes (but not limited to) professional services in the following fields: Web Hosting, Web Design, Web Development, Internet Marketing and the utmost in customer service and support.

For FREE Consultation Contact Lord & Griffin IT Solutions Today!

NEWS: NEW CLOUD HOSTING PLATFORM IN U.S.

A New Cloud Hosting Platform in Our U.S. Data Center

Lord & Griffin IT Solutions provides one of the highest levels of security and stability thanks to its partnership with the leaders in the Information Technology Industry. We strive to ensure maximum data protection and uptime for our customers’ web sites. We strive to ensure maximum data protection and uptime for our customers’ web sites, that’s the reason why we have added a specially designed anti-DdoS device to protect our network from unfriendly outer attacks.

All our servers in the US data center are now part of our new cloud hosting platform whose main goal is to minimize all possible downtimes and to offer a significant increase in the performance of both your Control Panel and your website. Here is just a short list of the benefits you will enjoy in our US data center with our cloud hosting platform:

enhanced service stability – we store different services (emails, MySQL databases, etc.) on different servers so as to make our overall platform less vulnerable to hack/DDoS attacks.
faster servers – we have recently upgraded our network to 10 Gbps, which means that our servers are faster than ever and so will be your website
faster maintenance – by ensuring spare servers, we have simplified server maintenance procedures and hence minimized frustrating service interruptions and downtimes
migration to SSDs – all web hosting users who are using less than 1 GB of storage space are now located on fast SSDs. This means that they will enjoy much faster read/write speeds and faster website speeds. We are planning to move all cloud hosting accounts to SSDs as well.
web accelerators (Memcached, Varnish, Node.js) – our web acceleration tools will help you boost the speed of your website even further.

As a valued web hosting client of Lord & Griffin Web Solutions (a division of Lord & Griffin IT Solutions), you will enjoy all the benefits of a state-of-the-art data center located in Chicago, Illinois, and owned by the well-known US company Steadfast Networks, which also provides the physical environment necessary for keeping the servers up and running 24 hours a day, 7 days a week.

Fully Redundant Network
The internal network of the data center is composed of redundant Cisco 6500 (SUP720) core routers/switches, Cisco 3560-E series distribution layer switches and Cisco 2950/2960 aggregation/customer layer switches. The network is fully meshed and redundant with several major backbone providers and an international peering network.

Optimal Route Selection
As a Tier 1 ISP, the owner of the data center where our servers are co-located, has established extensive public and private peering relationships. Peer points currently include the Pacific Bell NAP and the Palo Alto Internet Exchange. BGP4 is used for optimal route selection and automatic fail over.

Cisco Powered Network
The data center where the servers are co-located has an excellent peering network, including major backbone providers, such as Layer(3), NTT and nLayer, which are among the top network service providers. BGP is used for optimal route selection and automatic failover.

100% Network Uptime
The in-house operation center is staffed with skilled technicians that are available 24 hours a day, 7 days a week. The service is backed up by an industry-leading 100% network uptime SLA.

Very Fast & Reliable Servers
Our own server network includes a vast number of servers, which are being monitored 24/7/365. We maintain basic production servers, backup servers, as well as administrative, spare and dedicated servers.

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