What an agency should actually mean in Chattogram
The word "agency" is doing a lot of quiet lying in this city.
When a Chattogram business owner types "website design and development agency in Chittagong" into Google, what they picture is a team of professionals who will handle the whole thing properly. What a lot of them actually get is a brand name on an invoice. Behind it: one salesman who wins the work with a slick deck, then hands your file to whoever on the team is free that week, usually a junior who has never seen a clearing agent's site or an importer's product catalogue.
The design and the development get split across people who never talk to each other, the brief gets diluted at every handoff, and the senior person you were impressed by in the pitch never touches your project again. That is the standard agency model, and in a trade city where a foreign buyer judges you by your site in five seconds, it is the wrong one.
So here is the honest reframe. You do not actually want an agency. You want what an agency promises and rarely delivers: design and development handled together, by one senior pair of hands, with one person accountable for the result. That is what I am. I am RH Fardin, and I work as a one-person studio on purpose.
When you message me, you reach the person who sketches the layout, designs it in Figma, writes the front-end code, wires up the backend, optimises every image, tests it on real phones, and pushes it live. There is no relay, no "let me check with the team," no version of your homepage being quietly assigned to a 22-year-old to keep an agency's margin healthy.
Roughly five years building sites for Bangladeshi businesses means I know the Chattogram brief is its own animal. The money here moves through the port, through Agrabad and Khatunganj, through importers, exporters, C&F and indenting firms whose real customers are often sitting in Guangzhou or the Gulf. Website design and development in Chittagong BD is not about animation and sliders. It is about a site that loads fast on a buyer's phone, reads as a real established company in seconds, and has design and code that were built for each other instead of stitched together by two strangers on a team. One operator owning both halves is exactly why nothing falls through the gap between "designed" and "built."
Pricing is fixed and honest. 50,000 BDT for a clean, focused site, design and development included, 5 to 7 pages, mobile-first, working contact form and basic on-page SEO. 90,000 BDT adds pages, a blog and tighter design polish. 1,50,000 BDT is the full small-business package with custom illustration, conversion-focused copy direction and hosting setup. Fully custom work, built from a blank canvas, starts at 3,00,000 BDT. Always 50% advance and 50% on launch, by bKash, Nagad or bank transfer, and you sign off the full design before I write a single line of code, so the look is fixed on the design board, not after your customers have seen it live.
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