Why Sylhet owners come to me for a redesign, not a fresh build
Your site isn't bad because it's old — it's bad because nobody owned it after launch
The redesign call in Sylhet almost always starts with embarrassment, not strategy. Someone abroad — a brother in Whitechapel, a cousin who runs the family restaurant in Manchester — opened the website on a fast UK connection, on a phone they use to browse properly-made British sites all day, and asked the question nobody in the office wanted to hear: "Eta toh purano lagche, change korba na?" The site that looked fine when it launched in 2020 now loads slow, the menu overlaps on a 6-inch screen, the WhatsApp button goes to a number that changed two years ago, and half the gallery images are broken. It did not get bad overnight. It got bad because once it went live, nobody owned it, and the agency that built it disappeared the day the final invoice cleared.
I am RH Fardin, a senior website designer and developer working solo for about five years. A redesign is a different animal from a new build, and most 'top' web companies in Sylhet treat it the same — they ignore everything you already have, charge you for a brand-new site, and quietly let your existing Google rankings collapse on launch day. I do the opposite. I start with what exists: I crawl your current site, pull whatever analytics you have, look at which pages already rank, and read the last month of your Facebook page messages. Then I decide, page by page, what is worth keeping, what is dragging you down, and what has to be rebuilt from scratch. You are paying me for judgment, not just pixels.
Working in Sylhet means a redesign has two judges, and they never agree by accident. The manager here wants the site to load on a mid-range Symphony over patchy Subidbazar mobile data and send enquiries to the right phone. The investor abroad wants it to look like real money was spent — finished, credible, the standard he sees on UK sites every day. A redesign that pleases one and fails the other gets sent back, and the second half of the invoice waits. I design for both at once because I get on the calls with both sides myself. No junior in the middle losing the brief between Zindabazar and London.
Pricing is fixed and stated up front, because the person funding the redesign will ask 'koto taka, exactly?' and will not tolerate a number that creeps once foreign money is on the table. Most Sylhet redesigns land at 50,000 BDT for a focused small-business rebuild, 90,000 BDT for a mid-size service company with deeper content, and 1,50,000 BDT for a heavier corporate or bilingual rebuild. Fully custom redesigns with a bespoke design system start at 3,00,000 BDT. 50% advance by bKash, Nagad or bank transfer, 50% on launch. You approve the final design in writing before I touch production code — no surprises, no padding the bill because there is a UK address behind you.
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