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 in Sylhet for a website design and development price and you will get three numbers that cannot all be describing the same thing. A boy doing it on the side off the Zindabazar point says 8,000 taka. A small outfit near Amberkhana says 35,000. A Dhaka agency, once they hear you have a brother sending money from Birmingham, floats two and a half lakh. The reason the spread is that wild is that nobody is telling you which half they are quoting. "Website" bundles two jobs — the design (how it looks and reads) and the development (the code that makes it actually load, work on a phone, and let a customer pay or enquire) — and the cheap numbers quietly drop one of them. The 8,000-taka job is a free template with your logo pasted on: no real design, no real build, just a swap. This page prices both halves as one honest job and tells you exactly what each tier of website design and development in Sylhet BD buys.
What makes the price confusing is that a pretty design and a working website are not the same purchase, and most Sylhet buyers find that out the expensive way. You can buy a gorgeous mockup cheap from someone who only designs — and then discover there is no one to build it, or the build is handed to a stranger who turns it into something slow and broken. Or you buy a cheap "developer" who can wire up a template but has no eye, and you get a site that works but looks like every other recoloured theme in Bandar Bazar. The number on this page covers both under one set of hands on purpose: I draw the screens and I write the code, so you are paying once for a site that looks right and runs right, not twice for two people who blame each other when it doesn't. That single fact — one operator owning design and development — is the biggest reason the price holds and the site survives onto a real phone.
The second thing that moves the number in this city, more than in most, is who actually opens your site. Sylhet runs on people abroad — the probashi family in London and the Gulf, the customer back from two years in Manchester, 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 instantly. That raises the bar on the development specifically, not just the design: a Sylhet site has to load in under three seconds on a mid-range Android on GP or Banglalink 4G and look current to an eye trained on British websites, or it quietly reads as a small, risky outfit. Building to clear that bar is real work, and the tiers exist so the price maps to that instead of being invented on the spot when someone hears your family sounds well-funded.
When you hire me, the person quoting the website design and development price sylhet is the same person who designs the homepage and ships the code — no salesman lowballing to win you and a junior padding scope later, no agency tower-office margin baked into the figure. The ladder is plain and it covers both halves: 50,000 BDT for a clean, mobile-first site of up to five core pages, designed and built by me, with basic on-page SEO and bKash/Nagad payment instructions set up. 90,000 BDT adds more pages, a blog or notice section, 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. Genuinely custom work from a blank canvas starts at 3,00,000 BDT. Always 50% advance to start and 50% on launch — bKash, Nagad or bank transfer — and you sign off the full design before I write a single line of production code, so the final invoice never lands bigger than the quote.
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