WordPress, done properly for Chittagong
The problem isn't the price of the WordPress site. It's who answers the phone six months later.
Here is the call I get most from Chittagong business owners: "Bhai, my website is showing a white screen, and the person who made it isn't picking up." Usually it was a cheap WordPress build — a downloaded theme, fifteen plugins, no documentation — put together by someone who has since moved on, changed numbers, or gone quiet. The site worked on launch day. Then a plugin auto-updated, something clashed, and now nobody knows which of the fifteen plugins did it. That is the real cost of a cheap WordPress site in Chittagong, and it always lands months after you paid.
I build WordPress differently because I am the person who has to live with it. I design and develop every site myself, so there is no junior who half-finished it and left. The stack stays lean — a clean theme, the few plugins the site genuinely needs, nothing bolted on to pad an invoice. Everything is documented in plain language so that if you ever work with someone else, they can read what is there instead of guessing. When something needs attention later, you message one person who already knows your exact setup.
Chittagong is a trading city, and a lot of the work here reflects that — importers, C&F agents, shipping and logistics firms, garment buying houses around Agrabad and the GEC corridor, manufacturers who need a credible site that a foreign supplier or buyer will take seriously. WordPress suits this well: you get a proper company site or product catalogue you can update yourself, in Bangla and English where it matters, without paying a developer every time a price or a product changes. That self-sufficiency is the whole point of choosing WordPress over a locked-in custom build.
Affordable, to me, does not mean cheap. It means a fair senior price for work that holds up — starting at 50,000 BDT, with clear tiers at 50,000, 90,000 and 1,50,000 depending on how many pages and how much custom design you need, and fully custom builds from 3,00,000 BDT. You pay 50% to start and 50% on launch, and you don't approve the design until you actually like it. No surprise "maintenance package" sprung on you at the end. Just a WordPress site you own, built once, built right.
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