In focus
The real maths behind a Mohakhali web design budget (and where the Gulshan quote went)
Mohakhali is a working commercial area, not a showroom strip. The businesses here are SMEs in the office towers off the Bishwa Road, import and trading firms around Wireless Gate, clinics and diagnostic centres in the hospital belt, coaching centres, B2B service brands - outfits where every taka spent has to come back. So when a big agency quotes two or three lakh for 'a professional website', the owner's instinct is right: most of that number isn't the website.
It's office rent in a glass tower, a sales team's salaries, and an account manager whose whole job is to sit between you and the person writing your code. Strip that overhead away and the actual work - the design, the build, the launch - is what costs 50,000 to 1,50,000 BDT. That's not a discount or a 'cheap Mohakhali rate'. It's the real price of the work, without you paying for someone else's marble lobby.
So when a business in Mohakhali asks me 'koto taka?', the honest answer turns on three things and almost nothing else. First, how many pages carry real, distinct content - most local businesses need five to ten, and at 50,000 BDT I ship the first five properly, the 90,000 BDT tier covers the full structure, and 1,50,000 BDT adds the heavier pieces.
Second, whether you sell online - a simple WhatsApp-and-bKash enquiry site is a different build from a full online store with cash-on-delivery and Nagad checkout. Third, the quiet hour-eaters: redrawing a logo from a blurry JPG, wiring a working booking or enquiry form that actually lands in an inbox you check, an online-payment flow, or migrating a half-broken old site. What does not move the price is the words 'modern', 'premium' or 'professional design' - any competent senior gives you those at 50,000 BDT as a matter of course.
The real line between cheap and best in Mohakhali isn't the look. It's whether the person building it is senior enough to make a stranger trust you and ready enough to be on the other end of WhatsApp when it matters. That's the whole job, and that's what I do.