My Drum School
My Drum School teaches drums to thousands of students across four Singapore centres. We rebuilt its WordPress site around programmes, locations and careers, then handed the team a site they run themselves.
A WordPress rebuild for My Drum School with a mega menu, location and programme post types, resource downloads and a front-end search, live since February 2023 and still supported by Chillybin.
What we were solving
My Drum School opened in 2007 with one educator and a handful of students. By 2022 it was the largest specialist drum school in Singapore, with more than 50 educators, four centres near MRT stations, programmes from preschool through to corporate team sessions, and a YouTube channel in the millions of views. More than 6,000 students have passed through its doors.
The website hadn't kept pace. Founder and managing director James Pang wanted a site that matched the school's standing and gave a parent or adult learner a clear path from first visit to enquiry. His brief used one word repeatedly: the site had to deliver a "WOW" for visitors, and it had to be easy to find information, navigate and get in touch.
The school had its own hosting and an in-house tech executive. It needed a build it could own after launch, not one that depended on an agency for every change.
How we tackled it
Design the pages that carry the decision
We scoped the design around five pages: Homepage, About, Programmes, Careers and Contact. Each one got a purposeful flow, so a parent comparing programmes or a drummer looking at teaching roles lands, reads and acts without hunting. Underneath sit custom post types for Locations, Careers, Testimonials, Resources and Team. Four centres, dozens of educators and a growing list of student stories are data, not pages, so they stay consistent and the school's staff can add to them without touching layout.
Navigation and search that match the size of the school
A full-width mega menu surfaces the main sections, with separate configurations for desktop and mobile. Child navigation repeats in the footer and on child pages so visitors are never more than one click from a programme or a centre. Gravity Forms handles the contact form, with thank-you pages and automated emails. Resources can be downloaded directly or sent by email. A front-end keyword search prioritises certain fields so the most relevant programme or location comes up first.
A handover the school could own
Launch planning ran through February 2023. James and his team reviewed the demo site in detail, rewrote the FAQ to remove conflicts between old and new questions, and signed off. We handed theme files to the school's tech executive, delivered the Website Owner's Manual, and went live on the school's own hosting.
What we delivered
My Drum School now runs on the Chillybin build, live since February 2023. The homepage leads with the numbers the school has earned: 6,000+ students, 50+ educators, four centres, and a YouTube channel with millions of views across hundreds of videos.
The relationship didn't end at handover. We fixed a plugin fault that took the site down during a page edit in 2023, advised on form spam, and in late 2025 resolved a Gravity Forms notification problem that had stopped enquiry emails reaching the team. My Drum School still calls Chillybin when something needs a developer.
What we learned
A school with four centres and fifty staff is a content operation. The win was structuring locations, educators, careers and testimonials as post types so the team could maintain them. The design is what people notice. The structure is what keeps the site accurate two years on.
Handing a build to a client's own hosting and tech team works when the handover is deliberate: theme files, documentation and a short support window. When something sits outside the team's expertise, they know who built the site and come back.
