How to actually vet a redesign company before you pay the advance
In Chittagong, choosing a website redesign company is really one question: who keeps the keys?
Here is what nobody warns you about before you hire a website redesign company in Chittagong. The redesign itself is the easy half. The hard half starts six months later. You need one product page changed before a buyer meeting, so you message the firm that rebuilt your site. The WhatsApp number is dead. Or the junior who did the work has left. Or they want 8,000 taka and ten days for a one-hour change.
The site you paid 90,000 taka to rebuild is a hostage again, just in a newer-looking cell. So the real question for any redesign company in Chattogram is not 'how modern can you make it'. Ask this instead. When it is done, whose name is the domain in? Whose account is the hosting on? Who picks up the phone next year? If a vendor cannot answer those three cleanly, the redesign is a trap, however good the mockups look.
The second thing to check is who actually does the work. In Chattogram, the gap between who pitches and who builds is huge. A 30-person agency off GEC sends a smooth account manager to win the project. Then a junior with under two years of experience gets your rebuild. The senior from the pitch is busy on a bigger job. You only find out when the work comes back generic and the trade pages misread how your business runs.
Then every revision has to climb back through an account manager who was not in the room. A one-person studio has no telephone game. The person you brief on the first WhatsApp message audits your old site. I design the new one in Figma, write the front-end code and reply a year later when you need a line changed. That is one senior developer with about five years of rebuilding Bangladeshi sites, and one thread from advance to launch and beyond.
The third thing is what happens to your live site and Google rankings during the rebuild. Most Chattogram redesign vendors quietly get this wrong. Your current site, slow and dated as it is, still takes inquiries and still ranks for the terms buyers use. A careless redesign launches the new site over the old one in a single day. It deletes the old URLs. Then three years of rankings and a week of inquiries vanish.
I do not do that. I build the new site in staging while your live site keeps running and earning. I map every old URL to its new page and set 301 redirects. I keep the meta titles that already work and submit a fresh sitemap on launch day, so Search Console never panics. You lose no inquiries and keep the rankings you paid for. Your foreign buyers find you through Google and export directories, so that is half the value of the project.
Pricing is plain and fixed, whether your invoice says Chattogram or Chittagong. Most redesigns land at 50,000 BDT for a focused rebuild of a small business site. That fits when the bones are okay but the design, copy and mobile need real work. 90,000 BDT is for a mid-size trading or service firm with deeper content and a full copy rewrite. 1,50,000 BDT is for a heavier corporate or bilingual rebuild with many sections.
Fully custom rebuilds with special features, like booking, member areas or custom dashboards, start from 3,00,000 BDT. You always pay 50% advance and 50% on launch, by bKash, Nagad or bank transfer. You never pay the balance until you approve the full design in writing. There is no surprise invoice in month three. There is no monthly fee to keep your own site running.
See pricing in BDT