Stewart School, Cuttack
A 143-year-old institution under the Diocese of Cuttack, Church of North India — with a WordPress site that had a gambling spam injection on its own homepage. We rebuilt it from the ground up without changing a single thing about the school's identity.
70+
Internal pages built
1882
Year of founding preserved
0
Agency copy in final site
6
Archive systems built
The challenge
A 143-year legacy being undermined by its own website
The original stewartschoolctc.in was built on WordPress and had accumulated years of debt — a gambling site injection on the homepage, a zoom lock on mobile that prevented parents from reading content, dense navigation with 15+ submenu items, and an admissions flow that required six clicks before finding a form.
More critically: the school's actual identity — its Diocese governance, its house system, its heritage since 1882, its community of 2,500 students and 80 teachers — was all present in the site's content, but buried under a presentation that didn't match the institution's actual standing.
The approach
Modernise the presentation. Preserve the identity.
We began with an HTTrack mirror of the full existing site, supplemented by screen recording walkthroughs of every page. Every piece of school content — former principals dating to 1882, office orders, house system colours, Diocese governance structure, CISCE affiliation — was extracted, verified, and rebuilt into a structured component system.
The design brief was simple: nothing about Stewart School changes. The school's crest, colours, tone, and heritage narrative are identical. What changes is how clearly and credibly they are presented.
Key decisions
Four decisions that shaped the project
01
Preserve identity, not just content
The old site had genuine institutional depth — 143 years of history, a house system, a Diocese identity, former principals going back to 1882. We kept all of it. The brief was never to redesign the school. It was to present it at the level it deserves.
02
Archive systems over flat pages
Notices, downloads, office orders, and career listings all needed structured archive systems — not just individual pages. We built filterable, dated archive components that can hold years of school communication without becoming cluttered.
03
Mobile-first, not mobile-adapted
The original site had a zoom lock that prevented parents from pinching to zoom on mobile. We rebuilt every section from a 375px viewport outward. Most parents in Cuttack check the school website on their phones.
04
SEO as infrastructure, not an afterthought
Every page has unique metadata, Open Graph tags, JSON-LD structured data, and canonical URLs. Legacy WordPress page paths were mapped and redirected so no existing search rankings were lost during the migration.
The result
What we built
70+ internal pages
Every section of the school's life has a dedicated, linked page
Notice archive system
Dated, categorised — Common, Parent, and Career notices
Downloads system
Syllabus, forms, office orders — organised by category and year
Admissions flow
A guided path from enquiry to form in under 3 clicks
House system
Red, Blue, Green, Yellow — presented with pride and colour
Former principals list
1882 to present — complete, formatted, respected
Mobile-first layout
No zoom lock. Every section readable at 375px
SEO infrastructure
Metadata, JSON-LD, sitemap, canonical, redirect mapping
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