Gala

# Build a website in the "Gala" style

You are building a production-ready website. Follow the design system below exactly and adapt the content to the project. The design comes from the Qalib library (design No. 086).

## 1. The project

- Name: [fill in]
- Type of site: [fill in]
- What it does: [fill in]
- Languages: Arabic and English: Arabic first (RTL) and a full English version (LTR) with a language switch
- Pages: One page with sections and anchor links
- Contact details: [fill in]
- Assets: No photos yet: use suitable placeholders and mark each one TODO for replacement.

## 2. Visual reference

- Live demo (Arabic): https://qalib.omardeek.tech/demos/gala/ar.html
- Live demo (English): https://qalib.omardeek.tech/demos/gala/en.html

Each demo is one HTML file with all its CSS in a <style> tag. Download the raw file (for example `curl -s <url>`), not a summary of it, and treat its CSS as the source of truth for spacing, sizes and effects. The demo's business and text are fictional: never copy them.

## 3. Design DNA: Luxury

Quiet opulence: deep dark colours with gold or champagne, thin high-contrast serifs, full-screen photography and slow, assured motion.

- **Typography:** A thin high-contrast Didone serif for headings, widely spaced capitals for labels, and an elegant Arabic face such as Ruqaa or El Messiri.
- **Colour:** Warm black, emerald or deep burgundy, with gold or champagne and light cream text.
- **Layout:** Full-bleed images, short centred text, alternating image/text sections, large pauses.
- **Shapes:** Square corners, hairline gold rules, thin overlapping frames, a monogram logo.
- **Imagery:** Dark, high-contrast photos with side light, close-ups of materials and textures.
- **Motion:** Slow: 900ms fades, slow image zooms, no bounces.
- **Details:** A short gold rule under headings, Roman numerals, a handwritten signature.
- **Avoid:** Bright colours, cartoon icons, rounded corners, crowded text.

**This design in particular:** Ivory, champagne gold and a script hand, a music school dressed for its winter concert: a framed headline and one large quote.

## 4. Design tokens

```css
:root {
  --bg: #F8F3EA; /* page background */
  --surface: #FFFCF6; /* cards, panels, alternate sections */
  --ink: #2E2A24; /* main text */
  --muted: #857C6E; /* secondary text */
  --accent: #B08D52; /* buttons, links, highlights */
  --accent2: #D9C4A0; /* second highlight */
  --line: #E9DFCC; /* rules and borders */
  --on-accent: #FFFFFF; /* text on the accent colour */
  --radius: 0px;
}
```

- Colour scheme: light
- Fonts (available on Google Fonts and fontsource; self-host them):
  - Arabic headings: Aref Ruqaa (400, 700)
  - Arabic text: Amiri (400, 700)
  - Latin headings: Cormorant (400, 600, 700)
  - Latin text: EB Garamond (400, 600)
  - Accent (labels and numbers): Great Vibes (400)
- Type scale: h1: clamp(2.7rem, 6.2vw, 5.4rem) · h2: clamp(2rem, 4.2vw, 3.3rem) · h3: 1.25rem · text: 17px with 1.7 line height (Arabic 18px and 1.9) · max width 1200px · section spacing clamp(72px, 10vw, 136px)

## 5. Page structure

The demo shows a Music school. Build the sections with these visual treatments, in this order:

1. **Header**: The logo centred on top with the links in a row beneath it, like a masthead; the call-to-action sits at the end.
2. **Hero**: Headline, lead and buttons centred inside a decorative frame, with a wide photo underneath.
3. **About** «About Maqam»: A large centred quote with a signature, then the heading and paragraphs in two columns, then a strip of two photos.
4. **Main offering** «Instruments»: alternating rows of a large photo and text, switching sides on every row
5. **Schedule** «This week»: a vertical timeline: times on one side, a line with dots
6. **Pricing** «Fees»: pricing cards with the featured option highlighted, a feature list and a button
7. **Testimonials** «Our students»: one large centred testimonial at a time, rotating every few seconds, with dots
8. **Call to action** «The winter concert»: a band with a background photo under a dark overlay, white text and a button
9. **Contact** «Enrolment»: A large card on a tinted background: contact details on one side, the hours and button on the other.
10. **Footer**: the business name set huge across the footer, above the columns

## 6. Motion

Calm: only soft fades (about 1s) as sections enter; no movement on hover beyond colour.

**Decorations in this design:**
- small ornamental dividers between sections: a classical fleuron with hairlines
- the main headline in a script face

## 7. Technical requirements

- **Stack:** Choose the stack that fits the project; prefer static HTML, CSS and JavaScript unless it needs more.
- Semantic HTML, mobile first, adapting at 360, 768, 1024 and 1440px, with no horizontal scrolling.
- Arabic: <html lang="ar" dir="rtl">, CSS logical properties (margin-inline-start, inset-inline-end…), mirrored directional icons, never letter-space or uppercase Arabic, and Arabic text at 18px or more.
- Accessibility: WCAG AA contrast, visible focus states, alt text on images, and all motion off under prefers-reduced-motion.
- Performance: self-hosted fonts with font-display: swap and only the weights and subsets in use, WebP or AVIF images with set dimensions, lazy loading below the first screen, and no heavy libraries for simple effects.
- SEO: a title and description for every page, Open Graph, a favicon, and LocalBusiness structured data where relevant.
- Buttons: WhatsApp links as https://wa.me/<number>, phone as tel:, email as mailto:.

## 8. Delivery

1. Start with the tokens and base styles, then build the sections from top to bottom.
2. Compare the result with the live demo at phone and desktop widths before you finish.
3. Finish with how to run the site and how to deploy it.

Paste it into Claude Code inside a new project folder.