A portfolio is judged in eight seconds — and half of those seconds are the site loading. In Chittagong, where buyers open your link on phone data, a slow or fragile build loses you the job before your work even paints.
I am RH Fardin, a senior solo web designer & developer. I hand-build portfolio websites for Chittagong professionals — freelancers, RMG merchandisers, marine engineers, photographers, consultants — myself, start to finish. Clean code, fast on real networks, owned by you. Builds from 50,000 BDT.
~5 years building sites in Bangladesh. One pair of hands, no juniors. Design-approval guarantee before any code. 50% advance, 50% on launch. bKash / Nagad / bank.
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A buying-house contact in Dubai, an HR lead at a Dhaka firm, a developer scouting freelancers — they get your name, tap the link, and your portfolio has one shot to load cleanly and frame your work. Design decides whether it impresses. But the build decides whether it loads at all on a Chittagong 4G connection, whether it still works when they revisit in six months, and whether it shows up when someone Googles your name. This page is about that second half — the engineering under the portfolio, not the look on top of it.
I am RH Fardin, a senior web developer based in Bangladesh who works with Chittagong clients fully remote. Close to five years hand-coding sites, and portfolios are where sloppy development punishes you hardest — because the site IS the work being judged, a 6-second hero image or a contact form that silently fails is not a small bug, it is a lost opportunity you never even hear about. I am one operator. The person who writes the HTML, tunes every image, wires the enquiry flow and tests it on a real Android is the same person you message. No agency, no junior shipping a marketplace theme with your photos dropped in.
Most 'portfolio website development' in Chattogram is a pre-built theme with twenty plugins bolted on — fine for the demo, slow and brittle the moment real visitors and real images hit it. I build differently: clean hand-written HTML, CSS and JavaScript, or Next.js where it earns its place. Images served in WebP and AVIF at sized resolutions so a 40-shot gallery does not burn a recruiter's data in Khulshi. First paint under two seconds on a mid-range phone over Banglalink. And the whole thing ranks for your own name, so the site you own outranks the Behance or Facebook page you only rent.
Pricing is posted, no 'koto taka, inbox koren' games. Portfolio website development in Chittagong starts at 50,000 BDT for a tight single-page or 4-5 page build. Most professionals land at 90,000 BDT — multi-page, proper case studies, a blog and a CMS so you add new work yourself. The 1,50,000 BDT tier adds custom interactions and motion; a fully bespoke build from scratch starts at 3,00,000 BDT. Fifty percent advance via bKash, Nagad or bank, fifty percent on launch — and you sign off on the design before I write a line of code.
Six engineering decisions — made by one senior developer, not a plugin — that decide whether a Chittagong portfolio loads, converts and survives.
Tested on a mid-range Android over throttled 4G before launch, not just fibre. Your work paints in under two seconds in Agrabad or Patenga, so the visitor judges the work, not a loading spinner.
Every shot served in WebP and AVIF at the right size and lazy-loaded. A photographer's heavy gallery opens smoothly on phone data instead of stalling halfway and losing the lead.
A short enquiry form that actually emails you, plus a floating WhatsApp button with a pre-filled message — the channel Chittagong clients reach out on. No silent form failures eating your leads.
Clean semantic markup, proper meta and fast load so you surface when someone Googles your name. The site you own beats the social profile you only rent — and the search result is yours to keep.
Domain in your name, hosting in your account, all source files handed over on launch. No template lock-in, no hostage 'maintenance.' If we part ways, you walk out with the whole site.
No twenty-plugin stack that breaks on the next update. Lean, hand-written code that still loads fast and works a year from now — so your portfolio is not quietly dead the next time a buyer checks it.
Chittagong has a buyer profile most generic portfolio advice ignores. A merchandiser in Agrabad chasing a buying house in Dubai or Guangzhou is forwarding your link over WhatsApp, opened on a phone, often on a connection that is fine in the office and patchy in the field. A marine or CUET-trained engineer applying to firms abroad is being screened by someone who skims fifty applicants and gives each one a tap and a glance.
A wedding or product photographer's whole pitch is heavy images — the exact thing that murders load time if the build is lazy. None of these people are sitting at a desktop on fibre giving your site a fair, patient look. They decide on a phone, fast, and a portfolio that is engineered for that wins; one that was built for a pretty demo loses quietly.
So I build for that reality from the first commit, not as an afterthought. The image pipeline is the priority, because on a Chittagong portfolio the images ARE the load — compressed, modern-format, lazy-loaded, sized for the device. The contact flow is real and tested, because a buying-house lead that hits a dead form is gone for good and you never even know it happened.
And once the design is signed off — the design-approval guarantee, no code before you approve the look — the development is fast, clean and handed over in full: your domain, your hosting, your source. That is the difference between portfolio website development that produces a screenshot and the kind that produces a working asset a Chittagong professional can actually win business with for years.
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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A full, professional site that ranks and converts for a growing business.
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An online store built to sell and scale.
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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.
Straight answers to what Chittagong professionals actually ask before commissioning a portfolio build.
Builds start at 50,000 BDT for a tightly scoped single-page or 4-5 page portfolio with a working contact form. Most Chattogram professionals land at the 90,000 BDT tier — multi-page, detailed case studies, a blog and a CMS so you add new work yourself. The 1,50,000 BDT tier adds custom interactions and motion, and a fully bespoke build from scratch starts at 3,00,000 BDT. Payment is 50% advance via bKash, Nagad or bank transfer, and 50% on launch. No hidden charges and no surprise maintenance lock-in.
Design is the decisions — hierarchy, type, layout, how your work is framed. Development is making that real as a fast, reliable, owned website: hand-written code, a tuned image pipeline, a contact form that fires, load speed on Chittagong mobile data, and rankings for your name. I do both as one person, so nothing gets lost in a handoff — but if you already have a design you love, I can build it properly. This page is about the build side, where most Chattogram portfolios quietly fail.
That is the baseline, not an add-on. Every build is tested on a mid-range Android over throttled 4G before it goes live, because that is how your buyer actually opens it — forwarded over WhatsApp, on a phone, sometimes on patchy data. Images are served in WebP and AVIF at sized resolutions and lazy-loaded, JavaScript is kept lean, and first paint usually lands under two seconds. If your link is opened in the field in Patenga or Agrabad, the work still shows up fast.
Often more than the creatives do, because your competition has none. A merchandiser chasing overseas buying houses, or a CUET or marine engineer applying to firms abroad, lands far stronger with one clean URL — your experience, key projects, certifications and a direct contact — than with a CV PDF lost in an inbox. The 50,000 BDT single-page tier is built exactly for this: fast, credible, framed properly and easy to forward over WhatsApp.
No. I work fully remote with Chattogram clients and most I never meet in person. We handle reviews over Google Meet with the work on screen, and day-to-day it is WhatsApp and email. If a project is large enough and you genuinely want a face-to-face kickoff in Chittagong it can be arranged, but it is never a requirement to get senior-level work shipped.
Yes on both. Domain is registered in your name and hosting sits in your account from day one, so you own the whole site and all source files on launch — no lock-in. If you take a tier with a CMS, adding new projects yourself is straightforward and I hand over a short walkthrough. Prefer not to touch it? Optional care plans for updates and patches start at 3,000 BDT per month, billed quarterly. Either way, the site is yours.
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