What "company" should actually mean when you hire one in Chittagong
In Chattogram, the word "company" on a web vendor's homepage tells you almost nothing about who will actually build your site.
The reason most Chittagong owners search for a website design and development company — rather than a freelancer — is reassurance. A "company" sounds registered, staffed, accountable: someone who will pick up next month when the contact form breaks, who will not vanish with the advance. It is a completely fair instinct. The problem is that in Bangladesh the word "company" on a web vendor's site is mostly decoration.
Plenty of outfits quoting you off a slick page near GEC or Agrabad are, in reality, one person and a borrowed logo — or a sales guy in Dhaka who subcontracts your build to whoever is cheapest that week. You are paying for the reassurance of a company and getting the risk of an anonymous freelancer anyway.
So here is the honest version, because I would rather tell you straight than sell you a fiction. I am not a fifteen-person agency, and I will not pretend to be. I am one senior operator who has spent around five years designing and developing sites for Bangladeshi businesses. The difference from the "companies" above is not headcount — it is accountability. With me there is no front desk to get past, no account manager relaying your changes to a junior, no mystery about who is doing the work.
The person who answers your first WhatsApp message is the person designing your homepage, writing your code, and shipping your site. When something needs fixing in eight months, you message the same number. That single thread of ownership is worth more to a Chattogram trading firm than a roomful of strangers you will never meet.
What makes the Chattogram brief specific is who judges the result. So much of the real business here runs on trade — import, export, shipping and forwarding, C&F, indenting, commodity supply, light manufacturing off the port. The person deciding whether your firm is credible is often not even in Bangladesh: a sourcing office in Guangzhou, a principal in Singapore, a buyer in the Gulf who Googled your company name and wants to confirm you are real before replying to an email. They are not impressed by animation.
They want to see, in about five seconds, that you are an established firm — real office, real years in the trade, a clear line to a decision-maker. A site built by a vanished freelancer or an absent subcontractor cannot keep proving that, because the moment it breaks there is no one home. A site I built, I keep working.
Pricing is fixed and honest, and it does not change because your letterhead says Chittagong instead of Chattogram. 50,000 BDT for a focused business site — who you are, what you do, and a contact line that reaches a real person. 90,000 BDT for the standard multi-page build with service or product pages, client and principal logos, and a notices or careers section. 1,50,000 BDT for a full bilingual site with deeper navigation, downloadable company profile and buyer-facing sections.
From 3,00,000 BDT for fully custom builds designed from a blank canvas. Always 50% advance, 50% on launch — bKash, Nagad or bank transfer — and you sign off the complete design before a single line of code is written.
See pricing in BDT