Oh, I was never a businessman. I was a visionary, a dreamer. - Jim Bakker
I have been designing websites professionally for over 16+ years. Ever since I learned about the internet in grade school, built my first website on AOL's FTP Service, I have had the opportunity to build websites which generated millions of unique hits, converted hundreds of millions of dollars in revenue, and created design trends other companies followed.
Project Description: On-site needed a complete redesign of their website. I redesigned the site to be more user friendly and modified the information archectucture to bring higher conversions.
Project Description: Turbospy is a phone monitoring software. I designed the UX that sold the app software and highlighted the software's features.
Project Description: Powerline Data is a lead purchasing service. They offer high quality leads at affordable prices. I designed the website advertising toward business owners.
Project Description: Powerline Marketplace is a online ecommerce store which was built from scratch. I designed and coded the markup for the project.
Project Description: Black Tiger Creative is a web design and marketing agency which I started. The business offers professional and affordable web design services to small businesses.
Project Description: WebHosting.coop Cooperative Association is a web hosting company that runs on the democratic governance model. I have designed an updated version of the website to include cloud hosting and dedicated servers.
Project Description: Daniel Feight, PA needed a simple website for his firm. The goal of the website was to make the firm look enticing and to put his contact infomation in a prominent location of the site. The website also needed a contact form which would generate a lead and send an email to him with the visitors contact info when it is filled out.
Project Description: Comodo is an excellent service which provides security to websites. It encrypts the data between the purchaser and the company on ecommerce websites. The job was to create landing pages and a rebrand of their service.
Project Description: Codero Hosting was looking to modernize their brand and needed a complete overhaul of their website. Their goals were to increase conversions, modernize their brand, and to have a more niched order process. I have simplieified their home page, product pages, created a smoother navigational flow, and innovated a one page shopping cart. This resulted with a user needing to only apply three clicks to get through an order once landing on the home page.
Project Description: Alpha Victor Charlie is a web consulting company which helps customers build and manage ecommerce and lead generation websites. The goal of the website was to place an HTML5 video background on the index and videos and call to actions above the page fold on sub pages.
Project Description: The Caracoffee project was designed as a landing page and lead generation form for the sale of coffee styled websites geared toward small coffee shops.
Project Description: 6Pack Abs is a nutritional suppliment website. I designed several versions of a landing page for their product called "Green Detox", a new website for their exersize videos, a support page, banner advertisments, and amazon stickers feedback stickers for the top of their products.
Project Description: Launchpad was a sister company to HostGator.com. Launchpad's primary focus was on domain registration and shared hosting geared toward novice users. My goal here was to create an ultra simple user interface with the intent to get users to purchase a domain name. I made the focus of the webpage to go through a simple and easy to use domain registration process while allowing additional products to be offered in a way which was not hindering the domain purchase.
Project Description: Voipo was a sister company of HostGator. The idea was to sell Voip business services as a seperate entity with the goal of offering a new kind of service for hostgator to offer to their customers apart of their packages. My goal with this site was to educate users on this new kind of service and express the advantages of using the 800 phone number service. The website needed a professional feel while still providing a smooth user navigational flow through additional products.
Project Description: HostGator was the pinacle project of my career. I had designed all public interfaces for the organization along with all the promotional material. The goal of this site was to keep the design of the site simialr through the years while providing monthly promotions through different pages. This website grew in traffic from a few thousand hits a month to over 5 million and generated revenue from a few hundred thousand to over 150 million per year while I was full time Creative Director and Lead Ux / Ui Designer.
Project Description: THe HostGator store was a concept design built in 2009 to resell some merchandice which I had commissioned. The goal was to recieve some return on investment so we could give more employees free swag while offering our customers to sport our brand. The goal of the page was to sell merchandise and provide a way users can select attributes of products and take them through a one page order checkout.
Project Description: The HostGator Blog was a fun project I worked on back in 2009. The design was coded and implemented in Wordpress. The goal here was to make a fun site which would be entertaining to customers and pospects alike. The goal of the site was to put the website in the theme of a swamp. I had implemented some easter eggs in the design that helped the brand bring some flair. A gator poping out of the water every so often and thee clouds in the sky moving were just a few things which made the blog stand out from the rest.
Project Description: Paradigm Helicopters was a helicopter company which did tours around Houston as well as commercial transportation flights. My goals hear was to integrate a flight calculator which would determin how much it would cost based on the aircraft they chose as well as the location they were flying to which calculated from google maps API. ANother goal of the site was to generate leads to possible tours and flights through an online contact form and leading pages.
Project Description: Paradigm SRP was a security and protection company with the goal of providing security for high-end clients. The company also provided security and combat certification training for the use of specific combat systems. My goal for the site was to provide a military feel while educating users about the services and to generate leads to people who require these niched services.
Project Description: A web hosting review company which allowed the public to rate their web hosting providers and provide real and unbiased customer reviewes. My goal with this website was to list the hosting companies based on their customer rating while providing a blog to generate content for search engine indexing. THe reviews would be consistantly updating on the site allowing for fresh content to generate on a weekly basis.
Project Description: Sas-Aero was a aircraft maintenance service which provided aircraft maintenance services and offered a database services detailing FAA required records done on aircraft. The service also provided training for aircraft maintenance and service. My goal with this website was to educate the users on the services while creating a lead generation service. Later on I was lead on creating the user interface for the control panel which contained aircraft maintenance records.
Project Description: The Gallant Knight was a very popular Jazz club in Houston, TX which a buddy of mine owned. THe goal of this site was to show imagry of the bar and give the bar a special jazz feel. The bar had velvet on the walls and a low light setting allowing people to feel more in tune with the music. The goal of the site was to portrey the feel of the bar through the website will expressing the address and SEO to get indexed locally on Google local search.
Project Description: Every design I create is all started from a wireframe. This project showes examples of wireframes which define the information archatecture of a website prior to making a high fidelity mockup. The wireframes are usually passwed to product managers and upper management to receive feedback. These wireframes show where specific information is placed on a page and the functionality the website will have. The wireframes I have outlined in this project coinside with the high fidelity mockups for the Codero project.
Oh, I was never a businessman. I was a visionary, a dreamer. - Jim Bakker
