Madrasa Website Design in Bangladesh

What goes on a madrasa website

• Introduction, history and a message from the muhtamim
• Departments and the list of classes
• Admission notice, and an online application form
• Results and notices, published as they come
• Teachers, and a photo gallery of the madrasa
• A donation and chanda appeal page
• A design that reads properly on a phone, which is how almost everyone will arrive

Pages are added or dropped to fit the institution. A small hifz madrasa is well served by an introduction, a contact page and a donation page. A large Qawmi or Alia madrasa usually wants a page per department, teacher profiles, and separate sections for results and admissions.

Madrasa, madrasah or madrasha: which spelling?

All three are typed by people searching for the same thing, and none of them is wrong. Madrasa is the most common transliteration in Bangladesh, madrasah follows the Arabic ending more closely, and madrasha is how many people type it phonetically. We use madrasa on this site for consistency. If your institution spells it another way on its own signboard, we put your spelling on your website, not ours.

The software subdomain and a website are not the same thing

This is the question we are asked most, and confusing the two wastes people’s money.

So buying the management software does not give you a public website, and buying a website does not give you the management system. They do different jobs, which is why they are priced apart.

Why a madrasa needs a website at all

Guardians far away, and donors abroad

A large share of Bangladeshi madrasa support comes from people who cannot visit: a father working in the Gulf, a former student in Dhaka, a donor who heard the name once. A website is the only thing they can look at before deciding. Photographs, a clear introduction and a working contact page do more for that than anything else you can put online.

Admission season

Every year the same questions arrive by phone, one at a time: what are the dates, what documents, what fees. A notice page answers all of them at once, and an online application form turns the enquiry into something the office already has in writing.

Results and notices

Published once, readable by everyone, with nothing to print and nothing to pin to a board that only people standing in front of it can read.

Being findable at all

When somebody searches your madrasa’s name today, they find whatever exists. If nothing exists, they find nothing, or worse, they find a page somebody else wrote about you.

Online admission, if you also use the software

This is where the website and the management software earn their keep together. A guardian fills in the admission form on the website. The application lands in a pending list inside the software, with name, parents, date of birth, photo and previous institution. Somebody at the office looks at it and approves it, and the applicant becomes a student, with no retyping and nothing lost between a paper form and a register.

Without the software the website form still works; it simply arrives as a message that somebody enters by hand.

How a madrasa website gets built

1. Tell us on WhatsApp or the phone which pages you want.
2. Send the madrasa name, logo, photographs, introduction, teacher list and contact details.
3. We put the design and the Bangla content together and show it to you. You tell us what to change.
4. If you want your own domain, we attach it.
5. The site goes live, and we show you how to post notices and results afterwards.

What to have ready

Websites stall on missing material far more often than on anything technical. Gathering these first will save you weeks:

• The madrasa’s full name as it should appear, and the logo if there is one
• A short introduction and history, and the muhtamim’s message
• Photographs of the building, classes and any events, the better the light the better
• The list of departments and classes
• Teacher names and designations
• The address, phone numbers and any bank or account details for donations

If writing the Bangla introduction is the part that stops you, say so. We have done it many times and can draft it from a conversation.

What a madrasa website costs

The figure depends on how many pages you want and which features are on them, so we quote rather than publish a single number. Domain, hosting, Bangla content setup and later support are part of what we quote. Existing Sabaq software customers get a discount of up to 70 per cent on a website, which is set out on the special offer page.

Tell us the madrasa name, the pages you want and roughly how many teachers and departments there are, and we will put a real number in front of you rather than a range.

Madrasa website FAQ