The news portal company in Chittagong reporters actually trust to ship a working site.
Most Chittagong news startups get a Bangla portal that breaks on the first big traffic spike, has no ad-slot logic, and forces reporters into a confusing dashboard. I build news portals that load fast on 4G, handle Bangla typography properly, give your editorial team a clean CMS, and survive the 2 AM breaking-news rush.
About 5 years building real production sites - one senior operator, design-approval guarantee, from 50,000 BDT.
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Open most Chittagong-based news portals on your phone and the experience tells the same story - a cluttered homepage from a template marketplace, Bangla fonts rendering as boxes, ad placements stuffed wherever the developer found space, and a CMS so awkward your sub-editor avoids it. Worse, the site collapses the moment a port strike, CUFL incident, or Cox's Bazar breaking story sends traffic up 5x. That is the news portal market here, and it is exactly the gap this page exists to fix.
I am RH Fardin, a solo senior website designer and developer based in Bangladesh. For the last roughly 5 years I have been hand-building sites for businesses and publishers - no agency layers, no junior trainees touching your code, no project manager forwarding your messages. When you hire me to build your Chattogram news portal, the person who picks up your call at 11 PM with a homepage-layout bug is the person who wrote the layout.
What makes me the best fit for Chittagong news portals specifically is not a tagline - it is the mix of things I take seriously that most local agencies skip. Proper Bangla web typography with Hind Siliguri or Noto Sans Bengali fallbacks. Editor workflow that does not require an IT person on staff. Ad inventory thought out before the build, not bolted on later. Category architecture that fits a port-and-shipping-heavy news beat, not just a generic 'national-international-sports' dropdown.
Everything starts at 50,000 BDT with three tiers - 50,000, 90,000 and 1,50,000 BDT - and fully custom builds from 3,00,000 BDT for portals that need real scale, member logins, or paywall logic. Payment is 50% advance, 50% on launch, in BDT via bKash, Nagad, or bank transfer. You get a design-approval guarantee - I do not move into development until you sign off on the look.
Six things I bring to every Chattogram news portal build that the cheap-template crowd cannot match.
Proper Bangla web fonts, correct line-height for headlines, and a body type setup tuned for long-form reading on mid-range Android phones - the device most Chittagong readers actually use.
Sticky breaking-news ticker, push-notification hooks, and a one-click 'mark as breaking' workflow so your night-shift sub-editor can promote a Karnaphuli tunnel update without calling the developer.
A custom WordPress or headless setup configured so a reporter can publish a story with featured image, categories and SEO fields in under 90 seconds. No training video required.
Header, in-article, sidebar and sticky-footer ad zones built in from day one - Google AdSense ready, plus support for direct local advertisers (Chittagong real estate, coaching centres, shipping firms) with rotation control.
Aggressive caching, image optimisation, and a hosting setup that does not fall over when a Port of Chittagong story or a CUFL fire pushes 50,000 visitors at your homepage in an hour.
You message one person on WhatsApp - the same person who designs, codes, deploys and fixes. No 'let me check with the developer' delay when something breaks 20 minutes before your evening bulletin.
Walk through the Chittagong digital news scene and you will see a pattern. A local entrepreneur invests 30,000 to 40,000 BDT in a portal, the team publishes feverishly for the first six months, then traffic plateaus and the site starts feeling sluggish. By month twelve the developer has stopped replying. By month eighteen the portal is either dead or being rebuilt from scratch by someone else - usually for double what a proper build would have cost in the first place. The cause is almost always the same three failures stacked together: a generic theme bought for 60 dollars, a host that buckles under load, and a CMS no one on the editorial team enjoys using.
I build to avoid all three. The design is custom to your brand and your beat - if you cover Chattogram port logistics, business, shipping, EPZ news and city affairs, the homepage architecture reflects that, not a Times-of-India clone. The performance work happens during the build, not as a panicked patch later - lazy-loaded images, server-side caching, a CDN configured for Bangladesh traffic, and a Lighthouse mobile score I will actually show you before launch. And the CMS gets configured around how your team works - if your senior reporter wants to schedule a story from her phone during a press conference at Agrabad, that has to work without friction. That is what 'best news portal company in Chittagong' should mean, and that is the bar I build to.
Clear packages, fixed quotes, paid in BDT. Pick a starting point — I'll tailor the exact scope on a quick call.
Every project starts at ৳50,000
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Need something bigger? Custom & enterprise builds from ৳3,00,000. Pay by bKash, Nagad, bank transfer or card. Ask for an exact price or message on WhatsApp.
Six honest answers to the questions Chittagong news portal owners ask before signing.
Starting price is 50,000 BDT for a clean single-category portal with up to about 8 pages and basic ad zones. The 90,000 BDT tier adds multi-category architecture, breaking-news ticker, newsletter capture and richer SEO setup. 1,50,000 BDT covers full multi-section national-style portal with author profiles, advanced ad management, and category-level analytics. Anything bigger - paywall, member login, video-heavy CMS - is custom from 3,00,000 BDT.
Yes - this is where most cheap portal builds quietly fail. I set up proper Bangla web fonts (Hind Siliguri, Noto Sans Bengali, SolaimanLipi as needed), correct UTF-8 throughout the stack, slug handling that does not break on Bangla URLs, and search that actually finds Bangla terms. I also test on mid-range Android phones, not just my MacBook, because that is what your Chattogram readers are using.
That is the goal. I configure the publishing flow so a reporter logs in, hits 'new story', writes, drops a featured image, picks a category, hits publish - done. SEO title, meta description and social card all generate sensible defaults you can override. I give you a one-page cheat sheet and a short Bangla screen recording so a new hire is productive within an hour.
Ad zones are designed into the layout from day one - header banner, between-paragraph in-article, sticky sidebar on desktop, sticky footer on mobile. I set you up for Google AdSense and also give you a simple direct-ad manager so you can sell to local Chittagong advertisers - real estate developers in Khulshi, coaching centres in GEC, shipping firms near the port - and rotate creatives without touching code.
Traffic spikes are normal for news portals - a Karnaphuli tunnel incident, a port strike, election results, a Cox's Bazar weather event can 10x your traffic in an hour. I build with full-page caching, optimised images, a CDN edge, and a hosting setup sized for spike events from day one. For the 1,50,000 BDT and custom tiers I also configure a staging environment so you can deploy fixes safely while the site is under load.
Starter tier is typically 2 to 3 weeks from approved design, mid-tier 4 to 5 weeks, top tier 5 to 7 weeks. Payment is 50% advance to start work and 50% on launch - in BDT via bKash, Nagad or bank transfer. The advance is protected by a design-approval guarantee - I do not move into development until you sign off on the look in writing, so you are never paying for something you have not seen.
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