Let me be upfront with you.
Most “complete guides” about web development in Bangladesh are written by people who’ve never actually hired a developer here, never dealt with a vendor who vanished after taking the advance, and never had to explain to a client why their website looks broken on a Nokia phone.
We have. So this guide is going to be a bit different.
Whether you’re a business owner in Dhanmondi trying to move beyond your Facebook page, a startup founder in Chattogram looking for your first real web presence, or a procurement manager at a mid-size company comparing agencies — this is written for you. Real information. No fluff.
First Things First: What Are You Actually Buying?
Walk into any web development conversation in Bangladesh and you’ll hear “web design” and “web development” used like they mean the same thing. They don’t. And agencies that blur this line — sometimes intentionally — end up selling you things you don’t need, or leaving out things you actually do.
Web design is what you see. Colors. Fonts. Layouts. The way the homepage feels when you land on it.
Web development is what makes it work. The code that processes your order. The server configuration that keeps your site up at 11 PM when a campaign goes live. The database architecture that decides whether your site handles 500 visitors or crashes at 50.
Good web development services do both. Great ones build with SEO structure, mobile performance, and security baked in from day one — not bolted on in the last week before launch.
Here’s what’s actually available in the Bangladeshi market right now:
Custom website development — coded from scratch, tailored to specific business needs. Takes longer, costs more, but fits like a bespoke suit.
WordPress development — the world’s most popular content management system, used by everyone from small tea importers to international media companies. Flexible and affordable when done right. A disaster when done wrong.
E-commerce website development — online stores built on WooCommerce, Shopify, or fully custom platforms, with payment gateways like bKash, Nagad, and SSLCOMMERZ integrated properly.
Web application development — supplier portals for garment factories, patient management systems for hospitals, dashboards for logistics companies. Complex work that needs a real team.
Landing page development — single-page sites built to convert ad traffic into leads or sales. A genuinely different skill from building a full website.
Website redesign and migration — taking your outdated 2019 site and turning it into something that doesn’t send potential clients running.
What’s Actually Happening in Bangladesh’s Web Dev Market
Bangladesh’s IT sector has grown faster than most people outside the industry realize. BASIS (Bangladesh Association of Software and Information Services) puts annual IT export earnings above $700 million — and web development makes up a significant share.
Dhaka is the obvious center. Banani, Uttara, Tejgaon, Motijheel — packed with agencies ranging from two-person outfits working out of a single rented room to proper companies with 50 staff and dedicated QA teams. But Chattogram, Sylhet, Rajshahi, and Khulna all have growing talent pools, especially among BUET, BRAC University, North South University, and SUST graduates entering the field.
So the talent is real. Genuinely real.
The problem isn’t supply — it’s filtering. Knowing how to find the good ones, and knowing how to spot the rest before you hand over any money.
The market spans from freelancers charging BDT 5,000–8,000 for a “complete website” (almost always a barely customized template) all the way up to agencies quoting BDT 3–5 lakh for a full e-commerce build. Both price points can represent real value. Both can be money thrown away. The price alone tells you almost nothing.
The Services, Broken Down Honestly
WordPress Development
WordPress powers 43% of the entire internet as of 2025. Not just blogs — corporate sites, large media platforms, government portals, serious e-commerce operations. In Bangladesh, it’s the most commonly requested web development service. And for most businesses, that’s entirely reasonable.
Development costs are lower than building something from scratch. The plugin ecosystem handles most standard features without reinventing the wheel. Your team can manage content after handover without needing a developer every time. And if you ever switch agencies, finding someone who knows WordPress is never a problem.
But here’s where I’ll be direct: a badly built WordPress site is worse than no site at all.
Bloated premium themes loaded with features nobody will ever use. Forty plugins quietly fighting each other. Shared hosting that can’t handle a moderate traffic spike. Zero caching. Images that haven’t been compressed since 2020. Security patches sitting unupdated for months.
I’ve seen Bangladeshi WordPress sites take fourteen seconds to load. Fourteen. That’s not a website — that’s a waiting room that tells visitors you’re not serious.
Any developer worth hiring understands Core Web Vitals, knows how to set up WP Rocket or LiteSpeed Cache properly, and can configure a CDN for sites with national audiences. If they can’t explain those things clearly — keep looking.
Custom Web Application Development
At some point, off-the-shelf tools stop fitting your business. The garment factory that needs real-time supplier tracking. The insurance company building a custom claims management workflow. The hospital group launching a patient portal with appointment scheduling and integrated reports.
These are web applications. They need a different level of engineering.
Good Bangladeshi teams work with React.js or Next.js on the frontend, Laravel or Django or Node.js on the backend, and cloud infrastructure through AWS, Google Cloud, or DigitalOcean. If an agency can’t name their stack and explain why it suits your specific project — that’s already a red flag.
Custom development costs more and takes longer. That’s just true. But when your business process is genuinely unique, or when you’re building something that needs to handle thousands of users reliably, custom is the only path that actually holds up.
E-Commerce Website Development
Daraz, Chaldal, Shajgoj — these proved the Bangladeshi e-commerce market works. Now mid-size businesses want their own storefronts, and rightly so.
WooCommerce (WordPress-based) handles most small to medium catalogues well. Shopify is easy to manage but comes with recurring monthly costs that add up, and customization has real limits. Fully custom stores make sense when you have complex inventory, B2B pricing tiers, or very specific checkout requirements.
One thing people consistently underestimate: payment gateway integration in Bangladesh is not plug-and-play. Getting bKash, Nagad, and SSLCOMMERZ working properly — with real testing, fallback handling, and transaction reconciliation — takes actual work. Don’t assume it’s included unless it’s spelled out in the project scope.
And mobile-first isn’t a feature you can skip. Over 70% of web traffic in Bangladesh arrives on a mobile device. If your product pages aren’t fast and clean on a mid-range Android, most of your potential customers are gone before they ever reach the add-to-cart button.
Landing Page Development
If you’re running Facebook or Google Ads in Bangladesh and pointing that traffic at your homepage — stop.
Your homepage is for people who already know who you are. A landing page is for people who just clicked an ad. Those are completely different visitors with completely different needs, and treating them identically is one of the most common and most expensive mistakes in Bangladeshi digital marketing.
A proper landing page isn’t just a nice-looking page with a contact form. It’s a specific discipline — combining clear copywriting, UX thinking, and technical speed optimization into one page with one job. Fast load times. Above-the-fold clarity. A CTA that’s impossible to miss. Forms short enough that people actually fill them out.
Most web developers can build a landing page. Far fewer can build one that converts.
Website Redesign
Let me say something a bit uncomfortable: a lot of businesses in Bangladesh would genuinely be better off with no website than with the one they currently have.
A 2017-era site with a non-responsive layout, no HTTPS, and an eight-second load time isn’t a digital asset. It’s a liability. Every visitor who lands on it and immediately leaves is a signal to Google that your content isn’t worth ranking.
Redesign projects are more than a visual refresh. The technical side matters just as much — auditing what exists, migrating content without breaking things, setting up 301 redirects to protect existing Google rankings, and relaunching cleanly without a traffic collapse. A poorly handled redesign can hurt your organic search performance for months.
What This Actually Costs
Here are realistic BDT price ranges based on current market rates — not the template jobs at BDT 5,000, and not the inflated quotes some agencies give to clients who don’t know the local market. What a real Bangladeshi business should expect to pay a competent local team:
| Project Type | Price Range (BDT) |
|---|---|
| Basic informational website | 15,000 – 50,000 |
| WordPress business website | 30,000 – 1,20,000 |
| E-commerce store (WooCommerce) | 60,000 – 2,50,000 |
| Custom web application | 1,50,000 – 10,00,000+ |
| Landing page | 10,000 – 40,000 |
| Website redesign | 25,000 – 1,00,000+ |
| Monthly maintenance | 3,000 – 15,000 |
A few honest things about these numbers.
The low end of each range is achievable — but it usually means fewer pages, simpler design, faster timelines, and limited revisions. The high end reflects complexity, custom functionality, and proper testing. And everything after launch costs money too: hosting, maintenance, security monitoring, content updates.
Monthly maintenance packages covering security patches, backups, uptime monitoring, and minor changes typically run BDT 3,000–15,000 depending on scope. Some agencies fold this into the initial project. Most don’t bring it up at all until something breaks at 2 AM on a Friday.
How to Tell a Good Agency from a Bad One
This is the part that actually matters.
Ask for live URLs, not portfolio screenshots. Visit their past work on your phone. Run it through Google PageSpeed Insights. A developer who’s proud of what they build hands you live site links without hesitation.
Notice how they communicate before you sign anything. Are timelines vague? Is the scope fuzzy? Did they send you a generic quote within an hour of first contact without asking a single question about your business? These aren’t good signs. Good agencies ask questions before they quote.
Test their technical knowledge directly. Ask what Core Web Vitals are. Ask how they handle image compression. Ask what happens to your existing Google rankings when the site relaunches. If the answer is a blank stare or “don’t worry, we handle all that” — keep looking.
Find out what happens after launch. This is where most horror stories begin. Project finishes, site goes live, agency disappears. Something breaks three weeks later. Nobody answers the phone. Any serious web development company in Bangladesh should offer 30–90 days of documented post-launch support.
Get references you can actually call. Facebook reviews are almost worthless — too easy to manufacture. Ask for two or three past client contacts, call them, and ask what working through a project with this agency was actually like. That conversation tells you more than any portfolio or Google rating.
Technical Benchmarks for 2026
Google isn’t subtle about its requirements anymore. Sites that miss these marks don’t rank — regardless of how good the content is.
Core Web Vitals. Three metrics every developer should know by heart. LCP (Largest Contentful Paint) under 2.5 seconds — that’s how fast your main content loads. INP (Interaction to Next Paint) under 200 milliseconds. CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift) under 0.1, meaning your page doesn’t shift and jump while loading, which frustrates users and hurts rankings.
Mobile-first design. Not a preference — the baseline. More than 70% of your Bangladeshi audience arrives on mobile. Build for that screen first.
HTTPS. Any site without an SSL certificate gets flagged as “Not Secure” by every major browser. That warning banner alone loses you visitors. It’s also a ranking signal.
Schema markup. Structured data helps search engines understand your business — who you are, what you sell, where you operate. Especially valuable for local Bangladeshi businesses targeting searches in Dhaka, Chattogram, Sylhet, or other cities.
Clean URLs. /web-development-services-dhaka/ is readable, rankable, and makes sense to users. /page?id=47&ref=3 is none of those things.
The Facebook Page Problem Nobody Talks About
Here’s something worth saying plainly: your Facebook page is not a website. It was never designed to be one.
Facebook reaches people well. For many Bangladeshi businesses, it drives real sales. Ignoring it would be a mistake.
But it comes with a structural problem: you don’t own it. Meta decides what your posts reach organically. Meta restricts or suspends pages, sometimes with no clear reason and no functional appeals process. Meta changes the algorithm and your visibility can drop 60% overnight with zero warning.
And Google doesn’t index Facebook posts the way it indexes websites. If someone searches “leather goods exporter Dhaka” or “private hospital Sylhet” — your Facebook page doesn’t appear in those results. A properly optimized website does.
Your website is the only online presence you actually control completely. It builds SEO authority over time. It generates leads at 3 AM when nobody from your team is online. It’s what corporate clients, international buyers, NGOs, and government procurement offices check before they decide whether to engage with you at all.
Freelancer or Agency: A Straight Answer
Neither is automatically better. The right call depends entirely on what you’re building and how much support you need around it.
Freelancers make sense for simpler projects — a five-page informational site, a landing page, a straightforward WordPress build — especially when budget is tight and you’re comfortable managing the relationship directly. The risk is that a freelancer is one person, and one person gets sick, takes on a big client, or simply goes quiet when you need them.
Agencies make sense when the project is complex, the timeline is tight, or you need a full team — designer, developer, SEO, project manager — coordinating across the build. You pay more. In return you get accountability, process, and someone who answers the phone when things go sideways.
A middle path that genuinely works: hire an agency for the initial build and strategy, then transition ongoing maintenance to a trusted freelancer or in-house person. Lower long-term cost, higher quality on the part that matters most.
Red Flags That Should Stop You
“Complete website in 3 days, BDT 8,000.” What you’ll get: a ThemeForest template with your logo dropped in. No custom development, no SEO structure, no performance work. A website that looks like 400 other websites.
No written agreement. Scope, timelines, payment milestones, revision limits, handover terms — all of it in writing, signed by both parties. In this industry, handshake deals almost never end well.
They can’t explain their technology choices. A competent developer tells you exactly why they recommended WordPress over a custom build, or why React.js suits your application’s requirements. “It’s what we always use” is not an answer.
They quoted before asking anything about your business. If a price lands in your inbox within an hour of first contact — without questions about your customers, your goals, your competitors, or what success looks like — they’re not thinking about your project. They’re thinking about closing a sale.
Six Questions to Ask Before You Sign Anything
These apply whether you’re talking to a solo developer or a 30-person agency:
- Can you send me URLs — not screenshots — of 3–5 sites you’ve built in the last year?
- What’s the tech stack you’re recommending for my project, and why specifically?
- How do you handle SEO during the build — URL structure, page speed, meta data?
- What does handover look like? Will I have full admin access to everything?
- What’s included in post-launch support, and exactly how long does it run?
- Walk me through what happens when a deadline slips or scope changes mid-project.
Pay more attention to how they answer than what they say. Confident, specific, honest responses tell you a lot about how the next three months of working together will go.
Why Getting This Right Actually Matters
Think of your website less like a one-time purchase and more like infrastructure. A well-built, properly optimized site generates value that compounds over time.
Google organic traffic costs nothing per click. Once you rank for the right keywords — “garments supplier Dhaka,” “IT services Bangladesh,” “accounting firm Gulshan” — you’re getting found by people who are already looking for exactly what you offer. That’s fundamentally different from paid advertising, which stops the moment your budget runs out.
Better UX and faster load times convert more of your existing visitors into leads. Even a 1% lift in conversion rate on a site getting 1,000 monthly visitors is 10 additional inquiries. At a reasonable deal value, that’s meaningful additional monthly revenue from a single investment.
And the credibility signal is real. Before corporate clients, international buyers, NGOs, or government agencies engage with you seriously, someone checks your website. What they find — or don’t find — often determines whether the conversation goes anywhere.
Wrapping Up
Web development in Bangladesh has genuinely matured. The talent is here. The technical capability is here. The tools and platforms are the same ones used by agencies in Singapore or London.
The challenge is the noise — the volume of options, the wildly inconsistent quality, and the difficulty of separating serious professionals from people who learned to install WordPress three months ago and are now taking on client projects.
Do the upfront work. Ask hard questions. Check actual references. Visit live sites on your phone. Get everything in writing before any money moves.
If you’re looking for a team that takes both technical quality and Bangladeshi business context seriously — Triple A Tech has been building websites and digital solutions across industries for years. Not just things that look good. Things that rank on Google, convert visitors, and hold up over time.
Book a free consultation and get a straight answer about what your project would actually involve.
Related reading:
- SEO Services in Bangladesh: What You Need to Know Before Hiring
- Digital Marketing for Bangladeshi Businesses: The Full Picture
- Ready-Made Websites in Bangladesh: When They Make Sense (and When They Don’t)
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