Track record
Earlier work · Guitar Center · 2014
Guitar Center Drum-Off
The world's largest drum competition.
Built by our founder, Jonathan Concepcion, while at Guitar Center, before R5IoT.
Client
Guitar Center
Year
2014
Type
Website
Role
Front-end and WordPress development
Tech stack
WordPressBackbone.jsjQueryHTML5 pushStateCSS3
Overview
Guitar Center's Drum-Off is the world's largest drum competition, searching for the top undiscovered drummer.
A responsive single-page site built on WordPress as the CMS, with jQuery, Backbone.js and HTML5 pushState for clean URLs.
What Jonathan did
- Design to HTML to WordPress theme
- Fully responsive across mobile, tablet and desktop
- Parallax-style backgrounds
- pushState routing to get the most out of Backbone.js
- Scroll-to-section navigation with active states
- Hundreds of images loaded on demand via AJAX
Challenges
- Bookmarkable sections with clean URLs
- A store locator that works in every browser
- Full functionality in Internet Explorer 8
- Keeping heavy pages loading smoothly
