In focus
The hidden line item: who keeps the code alive after launch
Here's the part of the website development price in Chittagong almost nobody quotes you on, and it's the part that actually decides what the site costs over its life: maintenance and ownership. A website is not a poster you print once. It's running software that needs the odd security patch, a plugin update that doesn't break the form, a backup that exists before the day you need it, and someone reachable when the port-side office messages at 9pm because the site is down.
The cheap local quote is silent on all of this on purpose — because the moment the template breaks, you're either paying again to fix it or paying me to rebuild it from scratch. That silence is the second invoice, and it's usually bigger than the first.
My floor is 50,000 BDT precisely because that buys a site built to not generate that second invoice in the first place — and every build is handed over with the domain, the hosting and the admin credentials in your name, so even if you never speak to me again, you own a working asset, not a hostage.
So where do the tiers actually land for development in Chattogram? At 50,000 BDT you get a focused, fast, properly-built business site — around five to seven pages, mobile-first, one language, your content laid out cleanly, and a contact line that genuinely reaches you. Right for a showroom near GEC, a service firm, or a smaller trading house whose buyers just need to confirm you're real and get to you.
At 90,000 BDT the build grows: more service or product pages, a structured catalogue or portfolio, a stronger enquiry flow, a blog or notices section, and the early SEO groundwork. At 1,50,000 BDT it becomes a serious working site — full Bangla and English with typography that doesn't break into boxes on older phones, deeper navigation, a downloadable company profile, and buyer-facing sections built for the supplier in Singapore or Guangzhou judging an Agrabad firm in five seconds.
Beyond that, from 3,00,000 BDT, is genuinely custom: logins, admin dashboards, order tracking, real ecommerce with bKash, Nagad or SSLCommerz, anything a template honestly cannot carry. Always 50% advance, 50% on launch, and the full design approved before I write a line of code.