A news portal that loads on Robi 4G in Mirpur, ranks for trending search queries, and lets your reporter publish from a phone in five minutes.
I am RH Fardin, a senior designer-developer based in Bangladesh. I personally build news portal websites for Dhaka publishers, bloggers, and small media houses - no agency floor, no junior handoffs, no template marketplace flips. Bangla typography that actually reads well, Google News-friendly structure, AdSense and direct-ad slots placed where they earn without ruining the article. From 50,000 BDT.
Around 5 years of senior work. One operator from brief to launch. 50% advance, 50% on launch. Design approval before code starts.
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Open ten Dhaka-based news portals on a 4G connection in Banani and you will see the same problem - bloated WordPress theme bought from ThemeForest, eight popup ads before the headline, Bangla font rendered in some half-broken Solaiman Lipi fallback, and a Google PageSpeed score that would embarrass a 2014 blog. Readers leave inside three seconds. Advertisers calculate CPM on impressions that never load. That is the gap I close.
I have been designing and developing websites for Bangladeshi clients for roughly five years - no agency, no juniors, no outsourced backend team in another timezone. Every line of code, every Bangla font pairing, every category archive layout is built by me. When you message me on WhatsApp at 11pm because a breaking news embed is broken, you reach the person who actually built the portal, not a ticket queue.
Dhaka publishers have very specific pain - reporters who type in Avro on their phone, editors who want a one-click featured-slot rearrangement before the 8pm bulletin, owners who care about AdSense approval and direct ad revenue, and a readership that opens 70 percent of articles on mobile data. I build for that exact reality. Bangla-first typography with Hind Siliguri or Noto Sans Bengali, AMP-aware article templates, schema markup that helps you land in Google News and Discover, and an admin panel your reporter can learn in 20 minutes.
I work directly with editorial teams in Dhanmondi, Uttara, Old Dhaka, Gulshan, and on the publisher side from one-person opinion sites to small newsrooms with five or six contributors. I do not chase 50-client agency revenue. I take a few news portal projects each quarter and ship each one properly. If you want the best news portal website company in Dhaka because you actually want a senior operator who answers his own phone, that is the offer.
Six things every news portal I ship for a Dhaka publisher actually does well - not generic feature bullets, the specific stuff that decides whether your portal earns or sinks.
Hind Siliguri, Noto Sans Bengali, or SolaimanLipi paired with proper line-height and conjunct rendering. Headlines that look like a real newspaper, not a default WordPress preview.
Article pages under 1.5 MB, lazy-loaded images, fonts subset to Bangla glyphs only. Tested on actual Mirpur and Mohakhali connections, not just localhost.
NewsArticle schema, proper publish-date and author markup, XML news sitemap, canonical tags. Built so your Google News publisher application has a real chance.
Pre-placed AdSense and direct-ad zones at header, in-article, and sidebar, sized to actually fill on Bangladeshi inventory without breaking Core Web Vitals.
Custom WordPress or headless setup with Avro/Bijoy-friendly editor, image-paste from phone gallery, one-click featured-slot promotion. Your reporter learns it in 20 minutes.
You message me, I respond - on bKash payment, on a broken video embed, on a midnight breaking-news layout tweak. No ticket queue, no junior in the middle.
Most Dhaka news portal owners think the website is the product. It is not. The product is reading speed, publish speed, and ad fill rate. A reader on Banglalink 4G in Jatrabari has roughly four seconds of patience. If your homepage loads a 600 KB slider, 12 ad scripts, three jQuery plugins, and a Cloudflare-less origin in Singapore, you have lost them before they see the headline. I design the homepage backwards from that constraint - static-first HTML, critical CSS inlined, hero image at 60 KB, ad scripts deferred, fonts hosted locally and subset to Bangla characters. The result is a portal that opens on a metro-rail commuter's phone faster than your competitor's spinner finishes spinning.
On the back end, I design for the reporter who is typing a hospital fire story from a CNG at 9pm. The admin needs to accept paste from a phone, auto-resize the uploaded JPEG to three breakpoints, attach a category in two taps, and publish without staging timeouts. I also build category archive pages, author pages, tag pages, and election or special-event landing sections that you can spin up without calling me. Add bKash/Nagad payment for premium subscriptions if you want a paid tier, Google News and Bing News submission setup, AMP fallback for legacy traffic, and proper open graph tags so your stories actually render with the right thumbnail when shared in Facebook groups - which is still where most Bangladeshi readers find news.
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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Real questions Dhaka news portal owners ask me before booking - answered straight, no padding.
A working news portal in Dhaka starts at 50,000 BDT for a single-category blog-style portal with Bangla typography, basic AdSense slots, and a reporter-friendly WordPress admin. Multi-category portals with custom homepage layouts, video embeds, and Google News-ready schema sit in the 90,000 to 1,50,000 BDT range. If you need a fully custom headless setup with subscriber paywall, bKash payment, dedicated mobile app API, or breaking-news ticker, custom builds start from 3,00,000 BDT. Payment is 50 percent advance, 50 percent on launch.
AdSense approval is not guaranteed by any developer - Google decides based on your content, traffic, and policy compliance. What I do is build the technical foundation that approval requires - proper privacy policy and about page templates, clean ads.txt, NewsArticle schema, no copied content structure, fast loading, and clearly placed ad zones that meet AdSense placement rules. Most clients with original Bangla reporting reach approval-readiness within their first three months once they have 30 to 50 original articles published.
Yes. After launch I set up Google Publisher Center submission, verify ownership, add the news sitemap, and walk you through the Google News inclusion application. Bing News submission is also included. Getting accepted depends on your editorial standards and originality - I have seen Dhaka portals accepted within weeks and others rejected because they were rewriting Prothom Alo headlines. I will tell you straight before launch if your content strategy is the problem.
Yes - that is a core design constraint. The admin is mobile-responsive, accepts pasted images from the phone gallery, auto-compresses uploads so a 3 MB phone photo becomes a 90 KB optimised JPEG before publish, and works on a Robi or Grameenphone 4G connection without timeout. Bangla input via Avro keyboard, Ridmik, or Gboard Bengali all work natively.
A 50,000 BDT single-category portal takes about three weeks - one week for design, one for development, one for content setup and Google News submission. A 90,000 to 1,50,000 BDT multi-category portal with custom layouts takes four to six weeks. Custom builds with paywall or app API take six to ten weeks. I commit to dates in writing and you approve the design before I write a line of code.
Plan for it now and it is free to scaffold. The CMS is built with multilingual category structure from day one, so adding an English section later is a content task, not a redevelopment task. If you bolt it on a year later as a separate site, you will pay another build. I will ask about your one-year content plan in the discovery call so the architecture matches it.
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