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 possible moment — the story about the port, the cyclone, the by-election. The home page caches stale, the Bangla fonts break on iPhone, the ad code blocks the article from rendering. I design news portal websites in Chittagong that load in under three seconds on a 4G phone in Patenga, hold up when traffic spikes 50x in an hour, and let your editor publish a breaking-news headline in under a minute. From 50,000 BDT.
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Every Chittagong publisher I have worked with has the same nightmare story. The chairman of the port authority gives a statement at 11:47am, the reporter files at 11:51, the sub-editor publishes at 11:54, and by 12:10 the home page has not refreshed for new visitors, the article is showing the wrong featured image because the CDN cached it, and the Facebook share preview is the previous day's headline. That gap between filing and the reader actually seeing it is where most Chattogram news portals lose their audience to bdnews24 and Prothom Alo.
I am RH Fardin, a solo website designer and developer based in Bangladesh with around five years of full-time work behind me. I personally do the discovery call with your editor, the wireframes, the Figma designs, the front-end code, the CMS, the Bangla font integration, the deployment, and the post-launch fixes. No agency, no juniors, no project manager forwarding your WhatsApp messages. For a Chattogram newsroom that means one number to call when the live blog refuses to update during a city-wide strike at 2am.
I have built and audited news portals running on WordPress, custom PHP, and modern Node and Next.js stacks. For most Chittagong publishers I recommend a hybrid — a custom-coded front end for speed and Bangla typography, with a familiar CMS backend so your sub-editors do not have to relearn how to publish a story. The result loads as fast as a static page but feels exactly like the WordPress they already know.
Pricing is honest and tiered. Foundational news portal at 50,000 BDT for a small Chattogram publisher with one or two categories and a basic article layout. 90,000 BDT for a full multi-category portal with Bangla-English bilingual support, a homepage editor and breaking-news ticker. 1,50,000 BDT for the works — live blog, video embeds, journalist profiles, advanced ad slots, newsletter signup. Custom builds for established Chattogram media houses or daily newspapers start at 3,00,000 BDT. Half on start, half on launch, design-approval guarantee on every project.
Six decisions I make on every Chattogram news portal before writing the first line of code. Not afterthoughts — design constraints from day one.
Proper SolaimanLipi or Kalpurush font loading with font-display swap, correct line-height for long-form Bangla, and juktakkhor that do not break on iPhone Safari or stock Android browsers. Your headlines actually look like a newspaper headline, not garbled boxes.
Tested on real Robi and GP signals around Agrabad and Halishahar. Lazy-loaded images, deferred non-critical scripts, edge caching tuned for breaking news. The reader who tapped your link from Facebook sees the headline before the ad code has even finished loading.
Your sub-editor opens a draft, types headline plus 80 words, hits publish — the home page hero updates within seconds and a Bangla breaking-news ticker pushes live. No cache rebuilds, no five-minute delay, no calling the developer at midnight.
Pre-defined ad zones with reserved height so the article does not jump as Google AdSense or your direct-sold banner loads. Direct sponsor slots, programmatic, sticky footer ad — all built in without destroying Core Web Vitals.
Chattogram, national, port, sports, business, lifestyle — each as a proper category page with its own SEO-friendly URL, breadcrumb, and related-article sidebar. Adding a new category later takes two minutes, not a redesign.
Open Graph tags generated correctly for every article so the Facebook share preview shows the right headline, the right image, the right summary. Same for Twitter cards. Your reporter shares the link, the preview is clean, the click-through rate stays healthy.
Walk around Agrabad, GEC circle, or Khulshi and ask a 25-year-old where they get their 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 by the time the reader taps the link from Facebook, 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, and the Bangla font renders as squares for the first two seconds. They bounce. The 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 render almost instantly. I use system Bangla fonts as fallback while SolaimanLipi loads in the background. I block autoplay video on mobile by default. I give your ad operator real slots with proper sizes so they can sell direct deals to RAOWA Club, Akhtar Furnishers, or a local Chattogram brand without breaking the article layout.
And I build a real editorial dashboard so your editor can pin a Chattogram-specific story to the top of the home page during a port strike or a CCC election without copy-pasting HTML. That is 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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Six questions I get from Chattogram editors and publishers before they hire me. Direct answers, no sales spin.
Starts at 50,000 BDT for a foundational news portal with home, two or three categories, article template, and a basic Bangla CMS. 90,000 BDT for a multi-category portal with bilingual support, breaking-news ticker, sticky header and homepage editor. 1,50,000 BDT for a full publisher build with live blog, video embeds, journalist profiles, advanced ad zones and newsletter. Established Chattogram media houses and daily newspapers needing custom architecture start at 3,00,000 BDT. Always 50% advance, 50% on launch.
Yes, that is one of the main design priorities. I configure edge caching through Cloudflare or BunnyCDN, set up proper cache-purge on publish so new articles appear instantly, and tune the database for read-heavy load. A well-built portal on a modest 4,000 taka per month VPS can hold 50,000 hourly visitors without sweating. For genuinely huge moments — a cyclone landfall, a port shutdown — we pre-arrange a temporary upgrade so cost stays predictable.
Yes. This is where most templates fail. I integrate SolaimanLipi or Kalpurush with proper Unicode normalisation, set font-display swap so text appears before the font loads, and test on real iPhones running Safari plus stock Android 9 and 10 browsers which a lot of Chattogram readers still use. Juktakkhor render correctly, line-height is set for long-form Bangla reading, and headlines look like a real Bangla newspaper headline.
Either, depending on what your newsroom needs. For most Chattogram publishers I recommend a hybrid — WordPress as the editorial backend because your sub-editors already know it, and a custom-coded front end for 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 experience stays familiar and the reader 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 (top banner, in-article rectangle, sticky footer, category sponsor) with reserved height so loading the ad does not shift the article layout. Your ad operator can swap creatives from the admin panel without touching code. I also support a simple sponsor-handover so you can sell a section to a local brand for a week.
Foundational 50,000 BDT portal — around three weeks from kickoff if you have your category list, two or three sample articles, and a logo ready. Mid-tier 90,000 BDT bilingual portal with breaking-news features — four to six weeks. Full 1,50,000 BDT publisher build — six to eight weeks. The bottleneck is almost always content and brand decisions on your side, not the coding. I will tell you on the kickoff call exactly which decisions need to happen first to keep the timeline honest.
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