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Earlier work · E*TRADE · 2015

E*TRADE Bonds & Fixed Income

Why invest in fixed income, explained.

Built by our founder, Jonathan Concepcion, while at E*TRADE, before R5IoT.

E*TRADE Bonds & Fixed Income shown on devices

Client

E*TRADE

Year

2015

Type

Single-page app

Role

Front-end development

Tech stack

Backbone.jsUnderscore.jsjQueryAlfresco CMSXSLHTML5CSS3
Overview

Fixed income investments (individual bonds, bond mutual funds and ETFs, and brokered CDs) can play an important role in almost any diversified portfolio. This hub explains them to investors at every stage of life.

A single-page app integrated with the Alfresco CMS, built with Backbone.js, Underscore.js, jQuery, HTML5 and CSS3 alongside E*TRADE's designers, product managers and back-end developers.

What Jonathan did

  • Navigation logic for adding and removing content
  • Clean, human-readable URLs instead of data IDs
  • Overlay and modal components
  • Dynamic page content, meta titles and descriptions
  • Alfresco CMS content integrated into the single-page app
  • A shared class and HTML structure for buttons, links and overlays

Challenges

  • Full functionality in Internet Explorer 8
  • Making the pages load fast
  • Printable overlay content
  • Swappable Flash content inside tabs
Gallery

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