Pricing the whole job, design and the build, without the koto-taka guesswork
Why a Sylhet website quote swings from 8,000 taka to several lakh, and why most of those numbers aren't pricing the same job
Ask three people for a website design and development price in Sylhet and you'll get three numbers. They can't all describe the same job. A boy working on the side off the Zindabazar point says 8,000 taka. A small outfit near Amberkhana says 35,000. A Dhaka agency hears your brother sends money from Birmingham and floats two and a half lakh. The spread is wild because nobody says which half of the job they are quoting.
"Website" bundles two jobs. Design is how it looks and reads. Development is the code that makes it load, work on a phone and let a customer pay or enquire. The cheap numbers quietly drop one of them. The 8,000-taka job is a free template with your logo pasted on. There is no real design and no real build, just a swap. This page prices both halves as one honest job. It shows exactly what each tier of website design and development in Sylhet BD buys.
The price gets confusing because a pretty design and a working website are not the same purchase. Most Sylhet buyers learn that the expensive way. You can buy a gorgeous mockup cheap from someone who only designs. Then you find nobody can build it, or a stranger turns it into something slow and broken. Or you hire a cheap "developer" who can wire up a template but has no eye. The site works, but it looks like every other recoloured theme in Bandar Bazar.
My price covers both halves under one set of hands, on purpose. I draw the screens and I write the code. You pay once for a site that looks right and runs right. You don't pay twice for two people who blame each other when it fails. One operator owning design and development is the biggest reason the price holds and the site survives on a real phone.
The second thing that moves the number here is who opens your site. Sylhet runs on people abroad. Think of the probashi family in London and the Gulf, or the customer back from two years in Manchester. Think of the relative booking your venue for winter wedding season from overseas. They use fast, clean UK and Gulf apps every day. So they feel a cheap, stretched build under their thumb right away.
That raises the bar on development, not just design. A Sylhet site must load in under three seconds on a mid-range Android on GP or Banglalink 4G. It must also look current to an eye used to British websites, or it reads as a small, risky outfit. Clearing that bar is real work. The tiers exist so the price maps to that work, not to how well-funded your family sounds.
When you hire me, the person quoting the website design and development price sylhet buyers ask about is the person who designs and ships it. No salesman lowballs to win you while a junior pads the scope later. No agency office margin is baked into the figure. The ladder is plain and covers both halves. 50,000 BDT buys a clean, mobile-first site of up to five core pages, designed and built by me, with basic on-page SEO and bKash and Nagad payment instructions.
90,000 BDT adds more pages, a blog or notice section, a gallery and a booking or enquiry flow. 1,50,000 BDT covers a bigger Bangla and English build with a small store and deeper structure. Truly custom work from a blank canvas starts at 3,00,000 BDT. You always pay 50% advance and 50% on launch, by bKash, Nagad or bank. You sign off the full design before I write any production code, so the final invoice never beats the quote.
See pricing in BDT