TestPortal Virtual Academy

The flyer suggested one brand; the academy's actual crest is navy, burgundy and gold with no green in it, and the name carries no hyphen. The site was built to the crest. Its Yoruba motto — *púpọ̀ nípa díẹ̀, kì í ṣe díẹ̀ nípa púpọ̀*, 'much about a little, not a little about much' — became a real structural idea, shaping the 'depth over coverage' value on the About page rather than sitting in the footer as decoration.

The crest's wordmark and motto are drawn in dark navy for a light surface, so on the site's navy sections they disappeared entirely — the client spotted it the day after launch. Fixed by mounting the crest on a cream surface everywhere it sits on dark: a cream plaque with a gold ring in the hero and on the 404, a cream circular chip in the footer. A logo that only works on one background is a constraint to design around, not a bug to argue with.

The enquiry form has six subject checkboxes sharing the name `subjects`. EmailJS does not reliably collect repeated field names — one value would arrive, or none — so every multi-subject enquiry would have reached the client incomplete, with nothing in the UI to indicate it. Renaming the collected field to `subjects_list` fixed it. The kind of failure that never throws an error and only shows up as quiet lost business.

The form needed to read `?enquiry=trial` so a 'book a trial' button could preselect the right intent. The obvious tool, `useSearchParams`, would have forced the whole form to render client-side only, dropping the page out of the served HTML and out of search results. It reads the parameter from a ref on mount instead, so the page stays static. Every route was then verified against its actual served HTML rather than the browser view.

Both photographs the director supplied were mirrored front-camera selfies — the classroom posters behind him and the year planner on the wall both read backwards. Flipped horizontally before use. A small thing, but a website is often the most formal artefact a business owns, and backwards text in the background undoes that in a glance.