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Straight answers for small businesses and founders: what a website costs, how long it takes, Next.js vs WordPress, how to choose a studio, and how to design pages that win customers. Written by the team at Northcave Studio in Dhaka.
Business of Freelancing · featured
Web design studio vs agency: which is right for a small business?
Freelancer, studio or agency? How they differ in speed, cost and who you actually talk to, and which one suits a small business.
2 October 2026 · 6 min read
Business of Freelancing
How to choose a web design company in Bangladesh (2026 guide)
There are hundreds of web design companies in Dhaka, and most of them look the same from the outside. Here is how to tell them apart before you sign anything: the questions to ask, the red flags to walk away from, and what a fair price actually looks like.
25 Sept 2026 · 9 min
Development
Next.js vs WordPress for a small business website
WordPress runs a huge share of the web, and Next.js runs a growing share of the fastest parts of it. For a small business that just wants a website that works, which one should you actually pick? An honest comparison, including when WordPress wins.
25 Sept 2026 · 8 min
Business of Freelancing
How much does a small business website cost in 2026?
Real numbers, not ranges designed to get you on a call. What a small business website actually costs in 2026, what changes the price, and where the money quietly disappears if you're not careful.
22 Jul 2026 · 9 min
Business of Freelancing
Do you need a web developer or a website template?
Templates are cheap and fast. A developer is custom and slower to buy. Here's the honest decision framework, from a studio that sells both and has no reason to push you toward the expensive one.
22 Jul 2026 · 8 min
Business of Freelancing
How long does it take to build a website?
The honest answer is 'anywhere from a day to a few months', and the range is almost entirely about process, not difficulty. Here's what really eats the time, and how some studios ship in hours what others take weeks to do.
22 Jul 2026 · 7 min
Business of Freelancing
Is a free website draft actually legit?
A studio offering to design your homepage for free, before you pay anything, sounds like a catch. Sometimes it is. Here's how to tell a real free-draft offer from a bait-and-switch, from a studio that runs on exactly this model.
22 Jul 2026 · 6 min
Business of Freelancing
How to get a quote from us (and actually get a good one)
Our quote form takes about ten minutes. Spend those ten minutes well and you'll get a sharper price, a faster draft, and a lot less back and forth. Here's exactly what to put in each box.
13 Jul 2026 · 8 min
Business of Freelancing
Why 6–12 hour websites are the future of freelance web design
The six-week website is a relic of an era when pixels were pushed by hand. A case for delivering in daylight, and what that asks of the person doing the delivering.
2 Jun 2026 · 7 min
Motion
Three.js is the new typography
For a century, the display face carried a brand's voice. On the modern web, that job is moving to the hero canvas, and the craft rules are the same ones type designers have always known.
18 May 2026 · 6 min
Design
Landing pages that convert: a $0-budget playbook for founders
Eight patterns we use on nearly every landing page we build. None of them cost money. All of them cost discipline.
27 Apr 2026 · 8 min
Business of Freelancing
Bangladesh's next design generation
The country that became a byword for outsourced volume is producing a cohort that competes on taste. What changed, and what's still in the way.
8 Mar 2026 · 6 min
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