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How we rebuilt a 143-year institution's platform to eliminate malware and restore parent trust

A 143-year institution under the management of a Church of North India Diocese — with a WordPress site that had a gambling injection on its own homepage that neither staff nor parents knew about.

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internal pages built

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year of founding preserved

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archive systems built

The challenge

The original site was built on WordPress and had accumulated years of technical debt — a gambling site injection in the homepage source, a zoom lock on mobile, dense navigation with fifteen-plus submenu items, and an admissions path that required six clicks before a parent found a form.

More critically: the institution's actual identity — its Diocese governance, its house system, its community of 2,500 students and 80 teachers — was all present in the content but buried under a presentation that didn't match the institution's actual standing.

The approach

We began with a full HTTrack mirror of the existing site, supplemented by screen recording walkthroughs of every page. Every piece of school content — leadership history dating to 1882, office orders, house system colours, Diocese governance structure, affiliation — was extracted, verified, and rebuilt into a structured component system.

The brief was simple: nothing about the institution changes. The crest, colours, tone, and heritage narrative are identical. What changes is how clearly and credibly they are presented.

Four decisions that shaped the project

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Preserve identity, not just content

The institution had 143 years of genuine depth — a house system, a Diocese identity, former leaders going back to 1882. The brief was never to redesign. It was to present what already existed at the level it deserved.

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Archive systems over flat pages

Notices, downloads, office orders, and career listings each needed structured archive systems — not individual pages that would go stale. We built filterable, dated archive components that hold years of communication without becoming cluttered.

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Mobile-first, not mobile-adapted

The original site had a zoom lock that prevented parents from pinching to read on their phones. We rebuilt every section from 375px outward. Most parents in Cuttack check institutional websites on a phone.

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SEO as infrastructure from day one

Every page has unique metadata, Open Graph tags, JSON-LD structured data, and canonical URLs. Legacy page paths were mapped and redirected so no existing search rankings were lost in the migration.

What was built

70+ internal pages

Every section of institutional life has a dedicated, linked page

Notice archive system

Dated, categorised — Common, Parent, and Career notices in separate feeds

Downloads system

Syllabus, forms, office orders — organised by category and year

Admissions flow

A guided path from enquiry to form submission in under three clicks

House system

All four houses — presented with colour and institutional pride

Leadership history

Complete list of former leaders going back to 1882 — clean and formatted

Mobile-first layout

No zoom lock. Every section readable at 375px without horizontal scroll

SEO infrastructure

Metadata, JSON-LD, sitemap, canonical URLs, redirect mapping from legacy paths

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