Portfolio website design in Dhaka where the design gets out of the way and lets your work close the client.
Most portfolio web design in Dhaka is the same $49 template with the colours swapped — a full-screen hero of someone else's photo, a long bio, a grid of thumbnails, and your actual best work three scrolls down where nobody reaches it. I design portfolio websites in Dhaka for creatives and professionals who are tired of looking exactly like the last ten people in their field.
Solo senior designer, ~5 years designing sites in Bangladesh, from 50,000 BDT, 50% advance / 50% on launch, and you approve the design before you pay the second half.
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Here is the thing nobody tells you in a Banani co-working space: the reason your Notion page, your Behance, and your friend-built portfolio all feel forgettable is not your work — it is the design holding it. A portfolio with 32 projects in a grid says "I will take anything." A portfolio with six pieces, paced with real whitespace and a single confident line under each, says "I am the person you call for this." The design is not decoration on top of the work. In a portfolio, the design IS the argument — and most portfolio web design in Dhaka skips the argument entirely.
I am RH Fardin, a solo website designer and developer based in Bangladesh. For roughly five years I have designed portfolio websites for Dhaka creatives — graphic designers in Dhanmondi, wedding and product photographers in Bashundhara, architects in Gulshan, illustrators and motion designers in Mirpur, plus developers and UX designers chasing remote roles abroad. I personally do the discovery, the layout, the type, the visual direction, the build, the speed pass, and the launch. There is no junior "designing" your homepage off a template while I attend meetings.
Portfolio design in Dhaka has its own rules that a corporate-website team gets wrong every time. The hierarchy has to put the work above the words. The pacing has to slow the eye down on your strongest piece and speed it past the filler. The type has to be quiet enough that it never competes with the image. The whole thing has to feel intentional on a 6.3-inch screen at 11 PM, because that is where an art director or a recruiter actually opens your link. I design for that reality first, then make sure it scales up to desktop — not the other way around.
Pricing is fixed and honest. 50,000 BDT for a focused portfolio with a strong grid and contact flow, 90,000 BDT when you need individual case-study pages and a simple CMS, 1,50,000 BDT for motion, bilingual, and a custom editing system. Fully custom builds start from 3,00,000 BDT. Payment is 50% advance via bKash, Nagad or bank transfer, and 50% on launch — and the design-approval guarantee means I keep refining the visual direction until you actually sign off, before the second invoice is due.
Six design decisions that separate a portfolio people remember from the template your batchmate is also using right now.
The first thing a visitor sees is a piece of your actual work, sized and placed to land in two seconds. The bio, the services, the long story — all of it lives below or a click deeper, where it belongs.
I help you cut 30 projects down to the 6-8 that actually win you the work you want. A tight portfolio reads as senior; a crammed grid reads as desperate, whatever the quality.
Typography chosen and spaced so it frames your work instead of fighting it. Clean Bangla and English fallbacks that do not break, sized for thumb-reading on a Dhaka commute.
Most people open your link from a phone after a WhatsApp or LinkedIn ping. I design the mobile layout first and tune it on real budget Androids, not just a desktop preview in Figma.
A floating WhatsApp button, click-to-call, and a short inquiry form — placed so the right client reaches out before they overthink it. No 12-field 'request a quote' form nobody completes.
You see and approve the visual direction before code starts, and you do not pay the final 50% until the design is right. In-scope refinement continues until you say yes — no surprise change-fees.
Walk through how a real client finds you in Dhaka. Someone gets your name in a Gulshan meeting or a WhatsApp group, taps your link on their phone between two appointments, and gives you maybe eight seconds before they decide. In those eight seconds they are not reading your bio — and the hard truth is that the average portfolio website in Dhaka makes them feel you are the cheap, available one before they have seen a single project.
That feeling comes almost entirely from design choices: how much breathing room is around your first image, whether the type feels considered or default, whether the page loads before they lose patience on 4G near Mohakhali. Get those right and a 50,000 BDT portfolio out-converts a competitor's six-lakh agency site. Get them wrong and the best work in Dhaka still gets the tab closed.
This is exactly where portfolio website design in Dhaka usually goes off the rails — because it is treated as a content problem ("upload your projects") instead of a design problem ("decide what the visitor should feel, and in what order"). A photographer and a UX designer can use the same template and both lose, because the template imposes one rhythm on two completely different stories.
Before I touch the layout, we agree on the one impression your portfolio needs to create and who it needs to create it for — a Dhaka agency, a homeowner, a recruiter in Toronto, a brand looking for a freelancer. Then every design decision serves that: a bold, fast, scroll-driven single page for the designer who needs to signal range, or a quieter, structured, deep-dive layout for the architect whose buyers commit for years. That decision is the actual work.
Everything after it is execution — which, for the record, I also do myself.
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
A sharp, credible site that makes the right first impression and brings enquiries.
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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.
The questions Dhaka creatives and professionals actually ask before commissioning a portfolio — starting with the one everyone asks first.
The floor is 50,000 BDT for a focused portfolio — a strong work-first home, a curated projects grid, an about section, and a contact flow with WhatsApp. 90,000 BDT adds individual case-study pages, a blog, and a simple CMS you can update yourself. 1,50,000 BDT covers motion, Bangla/English, and a custom editing system. Fully custom builds start from 3,00,000 BDT. Payment is 50% advance via bKash, Nagad or bank transfer, and 50% on launch. If someone in a Facebook group is quoting you 12,000-20,000 taka for a 'custom' portfolio, it is a marketplace template renamed — and the design is the whole reason you are doing this.
Two reasons: ownership and design control. On Behance or Notion you get the platform's layout, the platform's rhythm, and the platform's branding around your work — the same frame every other creative in Dhaka is stuck inside, so you blend in by default. A designed portfolio on your own domain lets the layout actually argue for you, ranks for your name on Google, and cannot be hidden by an algorithm change or a banned account. Keep Behance and Instagram as feeders that point back to the one URL you control.
No template. Design here means the real decisions: which work leads and which gets cut, the hierarchy of what the eye hits first, the pacing and whitespace between pieces, the typography that frames the work without shouting, and the single clear next step. You see a visual direction and the key screens before any code is written, and we refine until it is right. Colour is the last and smallest part of it — the structure is what makes a portfolio land or flop.
That is the starting point, not an add-on. I design the mobile layout first, because that is where art directors and recruiters actually open your link, then test it on real budget Androids over throttled 4G — the kind of connection you get in a CNG near Farmgate, not the fibre in your studio. Images are compressed and sized properly so a photographer's gallery loads fast, and the first meaningful paint usually lands under two seconds. A beautiful design that takes nine seconds to appear is a failed design.
It should look like the standard your target client expects, which for remote and diaspora work is an international standard at a Dhaka price — that is most of the work I do. The design reads as considered and current to a recruiter in London or Toronto, loads fast on their connection, and proves craft in a few tight case studies rather than a 40-thumbnail wall. You do not have to choose between 'looks Dhaka-priced' and 'costs a fortune.' Done right, a 50,000-90,000 BDT portfolio competes directly with what overseas studios charge ten times more for.
That is what the design-approval guarantee is for. You approve the visual direction before any code is written, and you do not pay the final 50% until the design is signed off. 'In scope' means I will keep refining layout, hierarchy, type, spacing and components until the look is right — I will not rebuild your entire brand identity mid-project for free, but I will absolutely keep iterating the portfolio's design until you genuinely approve it. No 'that is a new package, sir,' no surprise change-fees.
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