12 years of proven experience in web & eCommerce design
brian d. oakes has project managed, designed and developed over 250 website & eCommerce implementations for multiple Fortune 500 companies, professional sports franchises and charitable organizations. brian d. oakes focuses his project plan on not only creating visually & aesthetically pleasing websites, but also on ensuring the websites are fully functional and extremely user friendly while maintaining high rankings on web visibility through top rated search engine optimization techniques and procedures.
| effective web design has many important facets |
- define the needs and target audience of your web presence
- create a intuitive and perpetual navigation structure, layout, logic and flow that allows the users to move freely around the website without feeling lost.
- create and deliver the right visual message through branding and effective web graphic elements.
- attract users and drive traffic to the website, through web visibility and search engine optimization
- measure analytics and statistics of site to improve and increase it’s effectiveness and overall profitability
* note: each of the featured websites in this portfolio are independently owned and operated by it’s respective company and it’s website design may have been changed since brian d. oakes has completed his creative works on these assignments. the storyboards featured on this portfolio website are for editorial purposes only and brian d. oakes does not promote or endorse any of the companies or products and services sold as the content is independently managed by it’s respective company.
eCommerce Web Design & Development
Social Media & Networking / Music and Entertainment
5G Solutions created (as a competitor to MySpace Music) a social media / interactive web based application that provided music artists to create, maintain and update their own online web prescence through an intuitive drag & drop user interface. The result of this product was ZUDE and ZUDE Artist Management.
Seattle Seahawks Official Booster Organization
* The Sea Hawkers website was re-designed 2 times during brian d. oakes’ role as creative director. These 2 storyboards and HTML pages represent those 2 site variations, however some functionality of these sites are no longer active as they were connected to the Sea Hawkers database and server. The Sea Hawkers current website has since been redesigned by another party.
View the SeaHawkers 2002 Design Site. | View the Seahawkers 2005 Design Site.
Computer Associates Corporate Sites & Applications
Computer Associates Core Performer Application
This was a project that I conceived, designed and was project manager on. This application was developed to foster employee moral and promote independent initiative amongst CA employees (30.000 world wide) using CA’s Core Value’s Principles. This project was approved by Vice President of Human Resources and CEO Sanjay Kumar and put into global production on January 2002.
View the documentation for this application.
