What "agency" should mean to a Chattogram buyer
In Chittagong, "agency" sounds safe. What you actually need is one person who is accountable for the code.
There is an unspoken belief in Chattogram that to get a serious website you have to ring a web development agency in Dhaka — because that is where the "big" firms are assumed to be.
So a trading house off Agrabad or a supplier near the port pays a capital-city agency rate, 1,50,000 to 4,00,000 BDT for a basic build, then spends the next three weeks explaining a port-city, import-export business to a project manager in Banani who has never stood in GEC traffic and does not know what a C&F agent does. You pay more, and you pay it to people who needed the local context explained to them. That is the deal I want to undo.
A web development agency in Chittagong should understand the Chattogram buyer by default — not bill you for the lesson.
Here is the part most agency pitches in Chittagong leave out: the senior who wins the work is almost never the person who builds it. A salesman closes you, a coordinator forwards your WhatsApp, and a junior with under two years of experience writes the actual code — usually by stacking twenty plugins until it roughly looks right. It holds together until one auto-update collides with another and your homepage breaks three months after they have moved on.
When you hire me, the senior person you brief on the first call is the senior person who draws the wireframes, writes the code, configures the hosting and replies when something needs fixing later. There is no handoff to lose your details and no junior quietly inheriting your firm's website because he was the one free that week.
The reason I use the word "agency" at all is to be clear about scope — design, development, hosting setup, on-page SEO and aftercare, the full service a Chattogram firm expects under one roof. I just run it as a solo senior practice on purpose. That suits the brief here. The Chittagong economy runs on the port: import and export, shipping and forwarding, C&F and indenting, raw-material supply, light manufacturing off the docks.
Your enquiry rarely arrives from a desktop in a quiet office — it comes from a buyer thumbing your site on a mid-range Android, on patchy 4G somewhere between Agrabad and GEC Circle, deciding in seconds whether you look real and worth a call. So I build mobile-first and test on an actual Chittagong connection before launch, not just a clean score on my own line.
Pricing is fixed and honest, the same whether your address reads Chittagong or Chattogram. 50,000 BDT for a focused business site — the pages that get you found and bring the enquiry in. 90,000 BDT for a larger build with custom illustration, a blog and stronger SEO. 1,50,000 BDT for a full small-business site, bilingual Bangla-English where it earns its place, with a basic shop or booking flow. From 3,00,000 BDT for genuinely custom work — buyer portals, dashboards, order tracking, real integrations.
Always 50% advance and 50% on launch via bKash, Nagad or bank transfer, with the full design approved before any code is written. If your budget is honestly under 50,000 BDT, I will say so on the first call and point you to a real template option instead of selling you something thin.
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