What a school website in Nepal needs: a page-by-page checklist
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Parents choosing a school now look it up on their phone before they visit. A school website does not need to be large, but it must answer their first questions quickly, look trustworthy and stay up to date. This checklist covers what to put on it and what to keep doing once it is live.
The pages parents look for
Start with these, in roughly this order of importance:
| Page | What it must answer |
|---|---|
| Home | Who you are, where you are, which grades you teach, and whether admissions are open |
| Admissions | Dates, eligibility by grade, documents needed and how to apply or enquire |
| About and principal's message | Your history, values and the person in charge |
| Academics | Levels and streams, the curriculum and board, results and achievements |
| Notices and news | Current notices, holidays and events, with dates |
| Facilities and gallery | Classrooms, labs, library, transport and sports, in photos |
| Faculty | Your teachers and their subjects, if you are happy to show them |
| Contact | Phone, email, office hours and a map that opens in the phone's maps app |
Details that build trust
A visitor decides in a few seconds whether a school looks serious. Small things decide it: a real photo of the building, the school's registration or affiliation details, an up-to-date notice, and a phone number that is answered.
- Your own domain, such as yourschool.edu.np, not a free subdomain
- Photos of your own school, not stock photos of somewhere else
- A notice or news item from the last few weeks
- The same phone number and address everywhere online
- A secure address (https), which browsers now expect
Getting an .edu.np domain
Nepal's .np domains, including .edu.np for educational institutions, are registered through Mercantile Communications at register.com.np. You apply with documents that prove the institution, such as its registration, and point the domain to your website host once it is approved. Check the registry's current requirements before applying.
Many schools also keep a .com or .org. If you have both, use one as the main address and forward the other to it, so search engines and parents see a single site.
Built for phones, in the language parents read
Most visits come from phones, often on mobile data. Keep pages light, make the phone number tap-to-call and the map tap-to-open, and put the admission dates where a thumb finds them.
Consider Nepali for the whole site or key pages. Parents who read Nepali more comfortably should not have to guess what an admission notice says.
Admissions and enquiries that do not get lost
A contact form that emails one person's inbox is easy to miss. Send enquiries and applications somewhere the admissions team can all see, mark progress and reply, and protect the forms from spam so real families are not buried.
Decide how long you keep applications. Personal details of children who did not join should not stay on file forever.
Children's photos and privacy
Get parents' consent before publishing photos of students, avoid captions that name children, and never publish phone numbers or addresses of students or staff without their agreement.
Keep it current
An out-of-date site is worse than a small one: a notice about last year's admissions tells parents nobody is looking after it. Give one person the job, and make updating the site part of publishing a notice rather than a separate task.
- Update admission dates as soon as they are decided
- Post holidays and results notices on the website as well as on paper
- Review every page once a term
Doing it with SchoolEasy
SchoolEasy's school websites start from templates written for Nepali schools, in English or Nepali, and the AI designer writes the pages from what you tell it about your school. Notices and events you mark for the website appear on it automatically, forms land in an Admissions inbox your team shares, and you can connect your own .edu.np domain with the security certificate issued for you. Websites are on the Gold and Platinum plans.