News portal website design in Chittagong, built for the day your scoop goes viral and 80,000 readers hit you in one hour.
Most Chattogram news portals I audit fall apart at the worst moment: the port story, the cyclone, the by-election. The home page shows stale news. The Bangla fonts break on iPhone. The ad code blocks the article from loading. My news portal website design in Chittagong loads in under three seconds on a 4G phone in Patenga. It holds up when traffic jumps 50x in an hour. Your editor can publish a breaking headline in under a minute. From 50,000 BDT.
One senior developer. About 5 years building content-heavy Bangla sites. Design-approval guarantee: you sign off the home page, category page and article page in Figma before I write any backend code.
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Good news portal website design in Chittagong starts with a nightmare every publisher I've worked with knows. The port authority chairman gives a statement at 11:47am. The reporter files at 11:51, and the sub-editor publishes at 11:54. By 12:10 the home page still hasn't refreshed for new visitors.
The article shows the wrong featured image because the CDN cached it. The Facebook share preview shows yesterday's headline. That gap between filing and the reader seeing it is where most Chattogram news portals lose readers to bdnews24 and Prothom Alo.
I am RH Fardin, a solo website designer and developer with about five years of full-time work behind me. I do the discovery call with your editor, the wireframes and the Figma designs myself. I also write the front-end code, set up the CMS and add the Bangla fonts. Then I handle deployment and post-launch fixes.
There's no agency, no juniors and no project manager forwarding your WhatsApp messages. For a Chattogram newsroom, that means one number to call. It matters when the live blog won't update during a city-wide strike at 2am.
I have built and audited news portals on WordPress, custom PHP, and modern Node and Next.js stacks. For most Chittagong publishers I suggest a hybrid. A custom-coded front end gives you speed and good Bangla typography. A familiar CMS backend means your sub-editors don't have to relearn how to publish. The result loads as fast as a static page but feels just like the WordPress they know.
Pricing is honest and tiered. A foundational news portal costs 50,000 BDT. It suits a small Chattogram publisher with one or two categories and a basic article layout. 90,000 BDT buys a full multi-category portal with Bangla-English support, a homepage editor and a breaking-news ticker.
1,50,000 BDT buys the works: live blog, video embeds, journalist profiles, advanced ad slots and newsletter signup. Custom builds for established Chattogram media houses or daily newspapers start at 3,00,000 BDT. You pay half on start and half on launch. Every project has the design-approval guarantee.
Here are six decisions I make on every Chattogram news portal before I write the first line of code. They're not afterthoughts. They shape the design from day one.
SolaimanLipi or Kalpurush fonts load properly with font-display swap. Line-height suits long Bangla reading. Juktakkhor don't break on iPhone Safari or stock Android browsers. Your headlines look like real newspaper headlines, not garbled boxes.
I tune the site for real Robi and GP speeds around Agrabad and Halishahar. Images lazy-load, extra scripts wait, and edge caching is tuned for breaking news. A reader from Facebook sees the headline before the ad code finishes loading.
Your sub-editor opens a draft, types a headline and 80 words, and hits publish. The home page hero updates within seconds, and a Bangla breaking-news ticker goes live. No cache rebuilds, no five-minute delay, no calling the developer at midnight.
Ad zones have reserved height, so the article doesn't jump as Google AdSense or a direct-sold banner loads. Direct sponsor slots, programmatic ads and a sticky footer ad are all built in. None of them wreck your Core Web Vitals.
Chattogram, national, port, sports, business and lifestyle each get a proper category page. Each has its own SEO-friendly URL, breadcrumb and related-article sidebar. Adding a new category later takes two minutes, not a redesign.
Every article gets correct Open Graph tags, so the Facebook preview shows the right headline, image and summary. Twitter cards work the same way. Your reporter shares the link, the preview is clean, and clicks stay healthy.
Ask a 25-year-old in Agrabad, GEC circle or Khulshi where they get Chattogram news. Most will name Prothom Alo, bdnews24 or a Facebook page, not a local news portal. The local portals exist. They have reporters on the ground in Patenga and Sadarghat, and they often break stories first.
But the reader taps the link from Facebook, and the site takes nine seconds to load on their iPhone over 4G. An autoplay video blasts before the article appears. Three popup ads cover the text. The Bangla font shows as squares for the first two seconds. They leave. Next time a friend shares a Chattogram story, they read it on Prothom Alo's mobile site instead.
I design news portals to win that three-second window. I split the critical CSS so the headline and lead paragraph appear almost instantly. System Bangla fonts show first while SolaimanLipi loads in the background. I block autoplay video on mobile by default. Your ad operator gets real slots with proper sizes. They can sell direct deals to RAOWA Club, Akhtar Furnishers or a local Chattogram brand without breaking the layout.
I also build a real editorial dashboard. Your editor can pin a Chattogram story to the top of the home page during a port strike or a CCC election. No copy-pasting HTML. That's the difference between a portal that publishes and a portal that competes.
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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Here are six questions Chattogram editors and publishers ask before they hire me. Direct answers, no sales spin.
It starts at 50,000 BDT for a foundational news portal. That covers a home page, two or three categories, an article template and a basic Bangla CMS. 90,000 BDT buys a multi-category portal with bilingual support, a breaking-news ticker, a sticky header and a homepage editor. 1,50,000 BDT buys a full publisher build with live blog, video embeds, journalist profiles, advanced ad zones and newsletter. Established Chattogram media houses and dailies start at 3,00,000 BDT. Always 50% advance, 50% on launch.
Yes, that's one of the main design priorities. I set up edge caching through Cloudflare or BunnyCDN. I set cache-purge on publish, so new articles appear instantly. I tune the database for heavy reading. A well-built portal on a modest 4,000 taka per month VPS can hold 50,000 visitors an hour without strain. For truly huge moments, like a cyclone landfall or a port shutdown, we plan a temporary upgrade ahead. That keeps the cost predictable.
Yes. This is where most templates fail. I add SolaimanLipi or Kalpurush with proper Unicode normalisation. I set font-display swap, so text appears before the font loads. I test on real iPhones running Safari. I also test stock Android 9 and 10 browsers, which many Chattogram readers still use. Juktakkhor show correctly, line-height suits long Bangla reading, and headlines look like a real Bangla newspaper.
Either, depending on what your newsroom needs. For most Chattogram publishers I suggest a hybrid. WordPress runs the editorial backend, because your sub-editors already know it. A custom-coded front end handles speed, Bangla typography and ad performance. For bigger custom builds we move to Next.js with a headless CMS like Strapi or Sanity. Either way, the editor's experience stays familiar and the reader's experience is fast.
Yes. AdSense is plug-and-play once your account is approved. For direct deals with Chattogram advertisers, I build named ad slots. These include a top banner, an in-article rectangle, a sticky footer and a category sponsor. Each has reserved height, so loading the ad doesn't shift the article. Your ad operator can swap creatives from the admin panel without touching code. You can also sell a section to a local brand for a week.
The foundational 50,000 BDT portal takes about three weeks from kickoff. That's if your category list, two or three sample articles and a logo are ready. The mid-tier 90,000 BDT bilingual portal with breaking-news features takes four to six weeks. The full 1,50,000 BDT publisher build takes six to eight weeks. The bottleneck is almost always content and brand decisions on your side, not coding. On the kickoff call, I'll tell you which decisions must happen first.
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