The Huda Academy
What the site has to prove.
Parents are not comparing feature lists. They are working out whether the school is serious about what it says it does. Four things settle that, and every page serves one of them.
The board, the leadership, the accreditation and inspection status, and every teacher by name and credential. The things a serious school states openly.
A design and a photo library that belong to The Huda alone. No stock classrooms, no template a hundred other schools are also using.
Fifty pages held to one standard, in English, Arabic and Urdu. No thin pages, no dead links, nothing marked coming soon.
Prayer times, Hijri dates, term dates, menus and deadlines stay correct on their own. Nothing on the site quietly goes stale.
What a parent is actually asking.
Choosing an Islamic school is a large decision for a family — academic, financial and religious at the same time. The questions are nearly always the same five, and most school websites answer none of them.
Fifty pages, eight sections.
Every page is designed, written and built — no placeholder pages, no "coming soon".
Everything the site does, and who it depends on.
Islamic-specific
Auto-calculating, set to the community's method (ISNA, MWL, Umm al-Qura) and Asr school.
Live countdown to the next prayer.
Both calendars shown together across the site.
One scheduled toggle swaps banner, palette accent, hero and a featured block. Each occasion is a config entry, not new code.
Adjusted schedule, iftar and suhoor timings, taraweeh, Ramadan programs, annual campaign.
Covers both Eid al-Fitr and Eid al-Adha — closures, prayer times and location, celebration messaging.
First ten days content, Hajj and Udhiyah information, Eid al-Adha lead-in.
Not an Islamic occasion, but the highest-traffic moment of the year.
Full month of timings, printable.
Automatic notices driven by the Hijri calendar.
Events that repeat on the Islamic calendar rather than the Gregorian one.
Khutbah and prayer times, plus which languages are offered.
Rotates daily on the homepage.
This week's menu with dietary tags, pulled from MarkTrack.
Calculators & tools
Parent picks grade, program and extras and gets a real number before inquiring.
Answers admissions questions from site content at any hour, then hands off to the enrollment form.
Shows a parent exactly what they need before starting an application.
Discovery & content
Filterable by division, with individual bios.
Month and list views, category filters, iCal export.
Term start and end, breaks and PD days, pulled from MarkTrack.
When each program actually runs.
Categorised feed with an archive.
Interactive walkthrough of a student's typical school day.
Parent, student and alumni quotes with photos.
Handbook, policies, forms and calendars as downloads.
Sitewide strip for urgent notices, scheduled in advance.
Shown only to first-time visitors, or only on specific pages.
Impact stats
Real enrollment count, overall and broken down by program.
Numbers count up as the section scrolls into view.
Giving
Links or embeds the existing platform — LaunchGood, Zeffy, GoFundMe.
Explains where money goes: general, building, scholarship, zakat-eligible.
Visual progress toward a fundraising goal.
Tiered sponsorship program, each tier linking to its campaign.
Conversion & handoff
Goes straight to the office inbox, nothing stored on the site.
Sends parents to the school's MarkTrack application.
Live “applications close March 15” driven by MarkTrack.
Tracks how many applications came from the website.
Embedded scheduler tied to the school's real availability.
Feeds the existing Mailchimp list.
Technical
Works with screen readers and keyboard navigation.
Fast load on a parent's phone on mobile data.
Keeps bot submissions out of the inquiry inbox.
We know the site is down before you do.
Traffic, inquiries, and how many applications the site produced.
CMS & admin
Not yet selected. Scope to be defined once the CMS decision is made — flagged here so it is not mistaken for an omission.
Arabic and Urdu that were designed, not translated.
The entire layout mirrors for right-to-left — navigation, cards, icons, form fields, not just the words. Real Naskh and Kufi faces at the correct line height, and content that genuinely differs per language where it should.
Where a school website stops looking generic.
Original design, an on-site photo shoot, a campus film, and copy written page by page. A parent may not be able to name why one school's site reads as more established than another's — this is usually why.
Custom Islamic geometric motifs, a real type system and considered spacing — not a template adapted.
Transitions, scroll behaviour and micro-interactions that make the site feel maintained.
On-site shoot, art-directed. The single most visible upgrade over stock.
A two-minute campus film for the homepage.
Every page written properly rather than pasted from the old site.
Live before the admissions season opens.
Five phases. Photography and copy run in parallel with the build so nothing waits on a single approval.
The bottom line.
One project fee for the build, and a straightforward monthly for keeping it right. No hidden line items.
Figures indicative. Final quote confirmed after discovery and sitemap sign-off.
Three things, and we start.
We design and build websites for schools and community organisations. This proposal is valid for thirty days and is prepared for The Huda Academy.