AEPOKC

AEP, Alliance of Emerging Professionals, was formed as a way to give young professionals in the area an avenue for networking and staying on top of events that are happening in and around Oklahoma City. Working in conjunction with the Oklahoma City Chamber of Commerce, AEP is focused on helping young professionals become the leaders of tomorrow.

Trevor Francis, founder and president of Fiberhaus, Inc., and one of the founders of AEP approached us with an idea for a site, a budget and a VERY short timeline. AEP needed to be alive and vibrant to appeal to the young professional and needed to have web-based tools that would allow the personnel from AEP to keep the site current and fresh and they needed to be online quickly for an upcoming meeting.

Needs

• Create a site that was fresh and appealed to the young professional
• Build web-based calendar management for general events and sporting events
• Build web-based Member Management that included adding new members and allowing existing members to manage their own profiles
• Web–based administration for adding and editing Committees
• Provide hosting and email services
• Search Engine Optimize

Solutions

• Worked with Daniel Mercer to gather content, deliverables and direction
• Created a new design showcasing the OKC Skyline and other photos from the area
• Designed Database using MS SQL
• Created all backend modules and administration using .NET
• Built the site using CSS and Web Standards
• Set Up hosting and email solutions including mailing lists
• Search Engine Optimized and submitted to Google, Yahoo, MSN and DMOZ
• Tested the site for browser compatibility and launched

Goals Achieved

• The site was completed within the one week time frame and on budget
• The backend tools are already being used to announce events
• Membership is being added live, through the site tools
• Hosting and mail services are being provided as well as nightly back-ups and web statistics to monitor the progress of the site