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Why splitting design and development to "save money" costs Mohakhali businesses more
The temptation is obvious. Someone in your building got a logo and a homepage mockup done cheap, so you think: I will get the design done by one person and the coding done by another, both at the lowest price, and pocket the difference. On paper it adds up. In practice, here is what actually happens. The designer delivers files with no thought to how they will be built, because that is not their job.
The developer rebuilds it as fast as possible to protect their margin, dropping the spacing, the animations, the responsive behaviour — all the things that made the mockup look expensive — because fixing those is not in their cheap quote. You end up arguing with two people who each blame the other, while your own staff time disappears playing referee. The 20,000 taka you "saved" gets eaten three times over in delays, half-finished pages, and a site that looks like a downgrade of the thing you approved.
An honest price map for a Mohakhali business: anything under about 30,000 BDT is a template installed in a weekend — survivable for a one-pager, a real liability for a company that wants to be found and trusted. The 50,000 to 1,50,000 BDT band is where the serious work happens, and it is where my packages sit because that is the real cost of doing design and development properly as one job — custom design, clean hand-written code, on-page SEO, secure hosting setup, the lot.
Above 3,00,000 BDT is custom territory: multi-language, large catalogues, integrations, dashboards, donor or member portals for the development-sector offices around here. When one person owns the whole thing for one fixed price, you are not paying twice and you are not paying to patch a seam that should never have existed.