Open Notebook

The centre had no website to send parents to. It teaches kindergarten to Primary 6 at four branches across Kuching, its parents read English or Chinese, and a typical business website would feel wrong for young children.

1. 01

   The whole page is the children's notebook.

   The cover sticks on with tape, each scroll turns a page, and hand-drawn illustrations sit on lined paper, like their own exercise books.

2. 02

   Every page in English and 简体中文.

   Parents read one or the other, so nothing is in only one language. Privacy notices are also in BM.

3. 03

   WhatsApp only, no forms.

   Enquiries go straight to a chat with the centre, and there is no backend to maintain or pay for.

4. 04

   Every WhatsApp button says where it was pressed.

   Each one fills in its own first line, in the page's language, so the owner can tell which page and which language a parent came from, with no analytics or cookies.

Launching Nov 2026. Enquiries a month and trial classes booked will be added after launch.

• 01Parents open a green notebook that turns a page with every scroll step, on desktop and phone
• 02Index tabs along the top jump to any section, the way a child flips to a tab in their file
• 03Hand-drawn illustrations sit on lined paper, like the children's own exercise books
• 04Every page reads in English and 简体中文; privacy notices also in BM
• 05Four branches, each with its own map that loads only when a parent taps "Show the map", so nothing reaches Google before that
• 06Enquiries go straight to WhatsApp, no forms or backend to maintain
• 07Teachers, timetable and results pages stay hidden until the centre sends their details, then appear with their own tabs
• 08The page is prerendered and readable with JavaScript off; the page-turn engine is an extra layer

How it's made: The page-turn effect, two languages, and a tiny static site with no running costs beyond hosting.

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