A freelance web designer for Rajshahi who builds your whole site himself — and is not graduating and leaving for a Dhaka job in six months.
In a university city, "freelance web designer" usually means a clever RU or RUET student doing it between classes. The site looks fine, then the semester ends, the kid lands a Dhaka job, and you are left with a login nobody answers. I am one senior operator who designs, codes and ships the whole site myself, full-time, as the actual job — not a side hustle until placement season. Freelance web design in Rajshahi starts at 50,000 BDT.
Solo senior designer, ~5 years building Bangladesh sites full-time. 50% advance / 50% on launch via bKash, Nagad or bank transfer. Design-approval guarantee — you sign off on the design before I take the final 50%.
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Here is the Rajshahi pattern, and almost every business owner I talk to has lived some version of it. You need a website. A friend points you to a sharp young freelancer near Rajshahi University or RUET — genuinely talented, knows WordPress, quotes you 7,000 or 8,000 taka, builds something that looks decent in a couple of weeks. For a few months it is fine.
Then final exams hit, the result comes out, the placement offer arrives, and your developer is now a junior at a software firm in Dhaka who stops opening your messages. Your site cannot be edited, the season changes and the homepage still says last year's offer, and the one person who held the login is gone. That is not really a freelancer. That is a final-year student earning pocket money, and the gap between that and a full-time professional is the whole point of this page.
I am RH Fardin, a freelance web designer working solo across Bangladesh with roughly five years of full-time client builds behind me. The key word is full-time. This is the job, not a phase between semesters, so the person who designs your site in June is the same person who picks up when you need a fix in December.
I take Rajshahi work seriously and I build around how this city actually earns — silk and clothing showrooms around BSCIC and Shaheb Bazar, mango traders and orchard businesses whose entire year hinges on a three-month season, coaching centres and admission-prep institutes feeding off the university and the medical college, clinics and diagnostic chambers near Laxmipur and the Medical area, shops selling to customers who pay by bKash and Nagad off a mid-range phone. Discovery call, design, front-end build, on-page SEO, speed pass, launch — all me.
No junior, no white-label partner behind a logo.
Pricing is plain, because in a careful-with-money city like Rajshahi a vague quote is a red flag. The freelance floor is 50,000 BDT for a focused, mobile-first business site built around how your Rajshahi buyer behaves. 90,000 BDT covers a larger build with a blog, booking, or stronger on-page SEO. 1,50,000 BDT is the bracket for small ecommerce with bKash, Nagad or SSLCommerz wired in properly.
Anything fully custom — a Bangla-English split, dashboards, integrations with your existing systems — starts at 3,00,000 BDT and is quoted per scope. I charge 50 percent advance to start and 50 percent on launch, payable by bKash, Nagad or bank transfer. I will not quote you a 6,000-taka number to win the job and then pad it later.
The design-approval guarantee is the part that matters most when you are hiring someone you found online and are not sitting across a desk from. You see and approve the design direction before I write production code, and you do not pay the final 50 percent until you sign off on the real, live site. In a market where the standard fear is handing an advance to a freelancer who then goes quiet — or simply graduates and disappears — that structure is deliberate. It keeps the risk on me, where it belongs, and your domain and hosting stay in your own name from day one, so nothing is ever locked under my credentials. Portfolio and references are on rhfardin.com.
Six things that shift when the designer, developer and project lead are one senior person who does this full-time — not a student doing it until placement season — each tied to how Rajshahi actually trades and buys.
This is my actual job, not a side hustle between exams. The person who builds your site in season is the same person who answers in the off-season — no developer who graduated and vanished to a Dhaka firm.
An honest freelance starting price in writing, not a low bait number that swells after you pay the advance. Tiers at 50,000, 90,000 and 1,50,000 BDT — you pick the scope and I tell you straight which one fits.
The person on your discovery call is the person who designs and codes the site. No trainee handover once your advance clears, no quality drop you only notice after launch.
If your year swings — mango harvest, silk and Eid showroom rushes, coaching admission cycles — I build a site you can update yourself when the season turns, instead of a frozen homepage stuck on last year's offer.
Payment instructions or full checkout set up the way Rajshahi customers actually pay — a clean merchant flow, not a personal number pasted in the footer that leaves the buyer unsure it even went through.
Clean URLs, proper titles and schema, Google Business Profile and Search Console set up before launch — so someone searching your trade in Rajshahi lands on you, not a national directory or your better-ranked rival.
Rajshahi has a very particular version of the freelance-web problem, and it comes straight from the university itself. This is one of Bangladesh's biggest education hubs — Rajshahi University, RUET, the medical college, dozens of coaching centres — so there is a constant supply of bright undergraduates who can spin up a WordPress site for 6,000 to 10,000 taka to earn some cash on the side. For a club page or a hobby project, that is genuinely fine.
For a business, it is a slow-motion problem, because a student freelancer is optimising for one thing you are not: graduation. Their goal is a degree and a job, and the day that job arrives, your site stops being anyone's responsibility. No SEO worth the name, a theme that was barely customised, nobody tested it on a real phone, and the only person with the login is now unreachable in Dhaka. You did not hire a freelancer; you rented a student until placement season, and the lease just ended.
Hiring a full-time freelancer is a different transaction, and you feel the difference precisely when the part-timer would have disappeared — month three, when the season turns or a small thing breaks. Because this is my full-time work and I run on referrals across Bangladesh, staying reachable is not a favour, it is the business model.
Concretely, that means a written scope signed before any taka moves, the 50/50 split, the design-approval guarantee, and a real handover at the end — admin logins delivered to your email, a short walkthrough of how to edit your own content, and your domain and hosting kept in your name so nothing is held hostage.
Whether your customers are walking into a silk showroom near Shaheb Bazar, ordering mangoes in season, or comparing coaching centres on their phone during admission rush, the site is built for them by one senior person who is responsible for the result — and who is still here in December, not a name in your contacts who left for Dhaka after finals.
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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Straight answers to what Rajshahi business owners actually ask before hiring a freelance web designer — starting with the one almost everyone asks inside the first thirty seconds.
The freelance floor is 50,000 BDT for a focused, mobile-first business site — homepage, about, services, contact, plus a supporting page. 90,000 BDT covers a larger build with a blog, booking or stronger on-page SEO. 1,50,000 BDT is the bracket for small ecommerce with bKash, Nagad or SSLCommerz wired in. Fully custom work — a Bangla-English split, dashboards, integrations — starts from 3,00,000 BDT and is quoted per scope. Payment is 50 percent advance, 50 percent on launch via bKash, Nagad or bank transfer.
If a student near the university is quoting you 6,000 to 10,000 taka for a real custom site, you are getting a barely-customised theme from someone who plans to be in Dhaka by next semester.
Because for most of those freelancers, web design is a side income until they graduate and get a job — and the day that job arrives in Dhaka, your site loses its only caretaker. I do this full-time as my actual profession, with roughly five years of client builds behind me, so the person who designs your site is the same person who answers in month two when something needs fixing.
The cheap student route usually ends one of two ways: a barely-customised theme that breaks under real traffic, or a developer who simply stops replying after placement. At 50,000 BDT I can spend the hours a real custom build needs and still be reachable a year later. Most owners who took the cheap route end up paying me to rebuild from scratch.
Two things, both structural. The advance is tied to a written scope we both agree before any taka moves — not a loose WhatsApp deal — and the design-approval guarantee means you approve the design direction before I write production code and sign off on the live site before paying the final 50 percent. Your domain and hosting also stay in your own name, so nothing is ever held hostage. I run a full-time freelance business on referrals across Bangladesh; going quiet is bad business and bad maths for someone whose next client comes from the last one. Portfolio and references are on rhfardin.com.
Yes, and the seasonality is exactly why it pays off if it is built right. A mango or orchard business, a silk showroom that peaks at Eid, or a coaching centre that lives or dies on admission cycles needs a site you can update yourself the moment the season turns — new prices, new batch, new offer — not a frozen page a student locked you out of. I build with a simple editor and hand you a short walkthrough so you can swap the homepage offer in minutes when harvest or admission rush starts. Spread across the year, 50,000 BDT is modest insurance against missing the few weeks when buyers are actually searching and ready to spend.
Yes — that is the whole reason I build it the way I do. I compress images properly, keep scripts lean and fonts fast, and test on a throttled connection that mimics the real speeds people get out past Shaheb Bazar, around Talaimari, and toward the bypass — not just on fast office wifi. Almost every Rajshahi buyer sees your site first on a phone, often a mid-range Android with patchy data. If it takes too long to load, they are in a competitor's tab before it finishes. Mobile-first here is not a line in the proposal — it is how the whole site is built.
Yes. On the 50,000 BDT tier I set up a clean payment section with your bKash and Nagad details, clear instructions, and a confirmation flow by form or WhatsApp so the customer pays manually and you confirm — exactly how most Rajshahi shops, showrooms and chambers already handle it. If you want fully automated bKash, Nagad or SSLCommerz checkout with order management, that sits on the 1,50,000 BDT tier, because at that point you are running an actual online store, not a payment-details page, and the price reflects the real work behind it.
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