Web Design in Anvik, Alaska

Designing for Anvik: the facts that matter

The city of Anvik has been around since 1969; that is more than half a century of local history. In a place with that much history, families tend to stay with the businesses they know, and a newer business has to earn trust one job at a time. If the business has served Anvik for a while, say so plainly and prove it with photos of the shop over the years.

Your Anvik audience

Anvik is one of 18 municipalities in Yukon-Koyukuk Census Area, a county of 5,028 people. At the county level, where the estimates are more precise: households have a median income of $55,741, and half the residents are older than 37.8. Broadband reaches 64.2% of homes, and 16.0% of households are online only through a phone plan.

Census facts about Anvik

Where Anvik customers come from

The closest municipalities to Anvik are Grayling (18 miles north), Shageluk (21 miles east) and Holy Cross (33 miles south). The city spreads over 9.6 square miles of land and 2.3 square miles of water, with roughly 7 people per square mile. Shageluk Airport (SHX) is 21 miles east of Anvik in a straight line. Customers in Holy Cross and Shageluk will ask the same thing: do you work here? A service area page answers before they have to.

The businesses that compete for customers in Anvik

Some of the business types in Yukon-Koyukuk Census Area, from the 2023 County Business Patterns:

• 9 grocery stores: what you carry, local products and directions.

Across Yukon-Koyukuk Census Area, County Business Patterns counted 92 employer establishments in 2023, and the Nonemployer Statistics add 401 businesses with no payroll, most of them self-employed owners. By number of employer establishments, retail trade leads in Yukon-Koyukuk Census Area (32.6%), followed by construction (10.9%) and transportation and warehousing (10.9%). Most of these businesses are small, and the website does the job a front desk would do in a bigger company.

A web designer for Anvik businesses, working online

Based in Curitiba, Brazil, Aria has been building business websites since 2008. We don’t have an office in Anvik: the whole process happens online, and the plan is the same $89 a month in any city.

1. Register your business online in about 5 minutes; the logo, photos and texts you already have go by email.
2. Review the website on a temporary link, ready within 5 business days, and request any changes.
3. Once you approve it, the first monthly fee is issued and the website goes live on your domain.

Changes after launch go by email and are included, and so do quick questions.

Before you publish: Alaska and federal rules

These are some of the Alaska and federal rules a small business with a website runs into:

• Under ADA Title III, a business open to the public should make its website usable by people with disabilities, according to the Justice Department’s guidance. ADA.gov guidance

Each business is different; this is general information, not legal advice.