Track record
Earlier work · Guitar Center · 2015
Guitar Center Music Mentor
Free music lessons from Guitar Center.
Built by our founder, Jonathan Concepcion, while at Guitar Center, before R5IoT.
Client
Guitar Center
Year
2015
Type
Website
Role
Front-end, WordPress and PHP
Tech stack
WordPressPHPMySQLjQueryJSON / JSONPGeolocation API
Overview
Music Mentor is Guitar Center's free lesson series: whatever your style or instrument, there's a free workshop, online class or in-store lesson taught by an expert.
A custom WordPress theme used as the CMS for Guitar Center's online classes, plus a custom plugin for CSV uploads, a single-page registration form, APIs and overlays, built with Guitar Center's designers, product managers and back-end developers.
What Jonathan did
- JSON data views for stores and classes
- Store locator using the Geolocation API
- Touch-swipe slider
- Responsive from phones to large screens
- Custom WordPress theme
- Custom PHP for CSV class uploads
- jQuery AJAX for registration and class listings
Challenges
- A store locator that works in every browser
- Full functionality in Internet Explorer 8
- Overlays that switch between fixed and absolute positioning by screen size
- Implementing JSONP
