News portal website development in Dhaka built for traffic, not trophies.
I build Bangla and English news portals for Dhaka publishers that load fast on Robi 4G, publish in under thirty seconds, hold up when a story goes viral on Facebook, and give your ad sales team real inventory to sell. One senior developer from start to launch, starting at 50,000 BDT.
From 50,000 BDT - 50% advance - design approval before code - ~5 years building for Dhaka media
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Most Dhaka news portals were built by someone who treated the homepage like a landing page. Then a story breaks, ten thousand readers hit it from Facebook in five minutes, the shared hosting cracks, the admin panel goes blank, and the editor messages you at 11 PM asking why the breaking news won't publish. I have rebuilt enough of these portals to know the pattern by heart - and to design around it from day one.
I am RH Fardin, a senior website designer and developer working with Dhaka publishers, online magazines, community news sites, and citizen journalism teams. I build news portals that hold up when traffic spikes, that let your reporter publish from a phone in Mirpur traffic, and that put your AdSense and direct ads in the right slots without turning the site into a banner farm. Around five years of doing this, and every single project is built by me - not handed to an unnamed junior in a back room.
The Dhaka media market is brutal. You are competing with Prothom Alo, Daily Star, Kalbela, Jugantor and a hundred Facebook-first pages. You will not win on budget. You can win on speed, on a clean reading experience, on a portal that shows up in Google News and Discover, and on a backend your editors actually enjoy using. That is what I build for - the boring fundamentals that other Dhaka developers skip because they are harder than dropping in a free theme.
I work direct, one-on-one. You message me on WhatsApp, I reply. You approve the design before a single line of production code is written - that is a written guarantee. Pricing starts at 50,000 BDT for a focused news portal, with larger publishing platforms at 90,000 and 1,50,000 BDT. Payment is 50% to start, 50% on launch, by bank transfer, bKash or Nagad. No retainers, no recurring fees you did not agree to.
Built specifically for how news works in Dhaka - mobile readers, viral spikes, multiple authors, and ad revenue that needs to clear hosting cost in month one.
Over 90% of your Dhaka readers will land from Facebook on a mid-range Android over 4G. The portal is designed for that screen and that connection first, desktop second.
Cached pages, optimised images, lazy-loaded ads. Stories open fast even when 20,000 readers hit the same URL after a Facebook share. No spinning loader, no white screen of death.
Clean URL structure, NewsArticle schema, sitemap_news.xml, AMP-ready templates, author bios and publish timestamps wired correctly so you can apply for Google News and Discover.
Roles for editor, senior reporter, junior reporter, photographer. Draft, review, schedule, publish. Bangla and English typing both work cleanly with Avro and Unicode.
Predefined zones for AdSense, direct campaigns, sponsored posts and homepage takeovers. Your sales team can sell concrete inventory instead of begging for whatever space is free.
Optimised for cPanel hosting from local providers like Hosting Bangladesh, ExonHost and Bytes Hosting - or for VPS / cloud if you want to scale. I configure caching and CDN either way.
Three things kill Dhaka news portals: traffic spikes, ad clutter, and an editor backend nobody wants to use. Traffic spikes happen the moment a story crosses 5,000 Facebook shares - cheap shared hosting falls over, the database locks up, and your readers see a 503 right when your story matters most. I solve this with full-page caching that serves static HTML to logged-out readers (90%+ of your traffic), image CDN, and a database structure that does not re-query the homepage on every hit. Same hosting plan, ten times the headroom.
Ad clutter is the second killer. The temptation to stuff every centimetre with banners is real - hosting bills are in dollars, advertisers in taka, and AdSense RPMs in Bangladesh are low. But a portal that takes 8 seconds to load loses 60% of mobile readers before they see the headline, and Google demotes it in Discover. I design the layout with ad zones planned in - so your sales team has clear inventory to sell, your AdSense placements pass Core Web Vitals, and your readers actually finish the article.
The third issue - the backend - is solved by building on WordPress with a custom editor flow tuned for Bangla typing, scheduled publishing, and a dashboard that shows what is performing right now. No CMS your reporters refuse to use.
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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Need something bigger? Custom & enterprise builds from ৳3,00,000. Pay by bKash, Nagad, bank transfer or card. Ask for an exact price or send an email.
Real questions from Dhaka publishers I have spoken with - answered straight.
A focused news portal starts at 50,000 BDT and covers homepage, category pages, article template, author pages, search, and a working editor backend. A mid-size publishing platform with multiple sections, video embeds, ad zones and Google News setup is 90,000 BDT. A full multi-author, multi-language portal with custom dashboards, podcast/video sections and AdSense optimisation is 1,50,000 BDT. Truly custom platforms with mobile apps, paid subscriptions or live blogs start from 3,00,000 BDT.
Yes. I build with the technical requirements Google checks - permanent URLs, clear publish dates, author bylines, NewsArticle structured data, sitemap_news.xml, and clean site navigation. I will not promise Google will approve you - that is a manual review they do - but I make sure the technical side is not the reason you get rejected.
That is exactly the scenario I plan for. The portal is built with full-page caching so logged-out readers get static HTML directly from the cache, not a fresh database query. Images go through a CDN. On standard Bangladesh cPanel hosting you can handle ten to twenty thousand concurrent readers without going down. For more than that I will recommend VPS or Cloudflare in front - and configure both for you at launch.
Yes. The editor supports Unicode Bangla via Avro, Bijoy, or Google Input - whatever your team already uses. Headlines, body text, image captions and meta descriptions all support Bangla and English in the same article. Comments, search and category pages all handle Bangla correctly. I test with actual Bangla content before launch, not a Lorem Ipsum demo.
I build the ad zones into the layout and integrate AdSense auto-ads or manual placements - whichever you prefer. I will not apply for your AdSense account (you must do that), but I make sure the site meets AdSense policies, has the right pages (About, Contact, Privacy, Terms), and that ad slots are positioned for both revenue and reader experience. For direct ad sales I build a simple admin interface where you can swap banners yourself.
You buy hosting from a Dhaka provider in your name - I recommend Hosting Bangladesh, ExonHost or Bytes Hosting for cPanel, or DigitalOcean / Hetzner for VPS. I help you choose based on expected traffic, then configure everything on it. You own the hosting account, the domain and the database from day one. I am not a reseller and I do not lock you in.
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