93 people live in the city of Pelican, in Hoonah-Angoon Census Area. Web design for a Pelican business is mostly about the basics: clear services, a real address and a contact form that works. Aria builds small business websites for Pelican companies for $89 a month, with the domain, business email and hosting included, and you only pay after you approve the website.
No setup fee: you only pay the $89 monthly fee, after you approve your website.
Your Pelican audience
Hoonah-Angoon Census Area: 2,271 residents (2025) in 5 incorporated places. For a city as small as Pelican, the county figures are more reliable: households have a median income of $61,406, and half the residents are older than 50.0. Homeowners are 72.0% of households.
The businesses that compete for customers in Pelican
Hoonah-Angoon Census Area has, among its employer businesses:
- Boat tour and charter operators: 11. Their website should show the trips you run, what to bring, where to meet and a contact form for dates.
- Grocery stores: 5. Their website should show store hours, departments and weekly specials you post by email to us.
In Hoonah-Angoon Census Area, the Census counted 98 businesses with employees and 269 without a payroll in 2023; the second group is where a simple, affordable website changes the most. Transportation and warehousing accounts for 24.5% of the county’s employer establishments, ahead of retail trade (18.4%) and accommodation and food services (14.3%). For any of them, a clear website is the difference between being compared and being skipped.
Mapping the area around Pelican
Within a short drive of Pelican you find Hoonah (31 miles, pop. 960) and Gustavus (37 miles, pop. 610). With 169 residents per square mile on 0.5 square miles of land, Pelican is spread out by Alaska standards. List the towns you actually serve, such as Gustavus and Hoonah, on your website; customers outside Pelican want to know before they call.
Sizing up the Pelican market
Weather in Pelican: plan the website around it
Climate normals for 1991-2020 from Pelican, 0.3 miles away, put the August average high at 62°F and the January average low at 28°F. About 165 inches of rain and melted snow fall in a normal year. Freezing nights (32°F or below) come about 120 times a year. Wet seasons mean roof leaks and water damage, and customers search right after the storm. Plan the website around your busy season: send the changes by email a few weeks ahead.
Running a website from Pelican: the Alaska rules
A website doesn’t need a special license, but the business behind it follows the same Alaska rules as any other.
- If you send marketing email from your new business address, the CAN-SPAM rules (16 CFR Part 316) apply, including an easy way for people to opt out. 16 CFR Part 316
Each business is different; this is general information, not legal advice.
Your website for $89 a month, step by step
Aria is a web design company from Curitiba, Brazil, working since 2008. We work with businesses remotely, so a company in Pelican gets the same plan, at $89 a month, without meetings or visits.
- Start with the online sign-up, which takes about 5 minutes, and send your material by email.
- Your website is ready within 5 business days on a temporary link, so you can check every page before anything is published.
- Ask for adjustments by email, approve, and after the first monthly fee the site goes live on your domain.
Hosting, the SSL certificate, daily backups and security updates are on us, and content changes you send by email are included.
- Business website or online store, same price
- Your domain, registered and renewed by us (or the one you already have)
- Business email on your domain: 5 GB, webmail and spam filtering
- Hosting, SSL certificate and daily backups
- Changes to text, photos and prices, requested by email
- Ready within 5 business days on a temporary link
What Pelican business owners ask us
Do you have an office in Pelican?
No visits: Aria works remotely from Curitiba, Brazil. You send your logo, photos and texts by email, and approve the website on a temporary link.
Is a website worth it for a business in a city of 93 people?
Yes, because the competition is county-wide: Hoonah-Angoon Census Area counts 269 nonemployer businesses and 98 with employees (2023). Being findable outside Pelican is the point of the website.
Who writes the text and chooses the photos?
Your logo, some photos of your work or place and a short description of what you do, all by email. We put it together and you approve every page.
Is there a setup fee?
No. No setup fee: you only pay the $89 monthly fee, after you approve your website. There is no lock-in contract either: you can end the service whenever you need.
Start your Pelican website today
Sign-up in about 5 minutes, website within 5 business days on a temporary link, and the $89 monthly fee only after you approve it.
- Population figures for Pelican: Census Bureau Vintage 2025 estimates. Households, income, commuting and housing: American Community Survey 2020-2024, 5-year, county figures where the town estimate is too uncertain. Businesses: ZIP Code and County Business Patterns 2023 and Nonemployer Statistics 2023. Distances: 2025 Gazetteer, straight line.
- Climate: NOAA National Centers for Environmental Information, U.S. Climate Normals 1991-2020 (station USC00507141).
- State rules come from the official sources linked in that section (checked October 30, 2026); county seats from the USGS National Atlas.