Web Design in Selawik, Alaska

Small business website advice, Selawik edition

Selawik sits on the Selawik River. Water also means storms, insurance and repairs, and owners search for people who know the conditions. If your work is on or near the water, say which waters, marinas or shorelines you serve; that is exactly what people type.

What Selawik customers look for before they call

10.4% of Selawik residents are under 5 years old. Parents of small children plan around naps and pickups; hours and prices on the first screen save them a call.

94.9% of residents were born in Alaska. A rooted community still looks businesses up before calling, if only to find the hours.

Getting to and around Selawik

Within a short drive of Selawik you find Kiana (28 miles) and Noorvik (32 miles). The county seat, Kotzebue, is 71 miles west. The city spreads over 2.0 square miles of land and 1.0 square miles of water, with roughly 368 people per square mile. Selawik Airport (WLK) is 0.4 miles southeast of Selawik in a straight line. Selawik sits about 0 feet above sea level. Customers in Noorvik and Kiana will ask the same thing: do you work here? A service area page answers before they have to.

Northwest Arctic Borough: 7,095 residents (2025) in 10 incorporated places.

The city of Selawik in numbers

The businesses that compete for customers in Selawik

Across Northwest Arctic Borough, County Business Patterns counts, among others:

• Grocery stores (8): hours, weekly specials and departments.

Northwest Arctic Borough as a whole had 65 employer establishments in 2023 and another 186 nonemployer businesses, the one-person shops and independent contractors that often have no website at all. Retail trade accounts for 23.1% of the county’s employer establishments, ahead of transportation and warehousing (13.8%) and other services (repair, personal care, organizations) (12.3%). Each of these businesses competes for the same search: someone in Selawik typing what they need and picking from the results that look trustworthy.

Paperwork and rules for Alaska businesses online

Before your website goes live, it helps to have the basics of the business in order.

• Newsletters and promotions sent from your business email must include a working way to unsubscribe (16 CFR Part 316). 16 CFR Part 316

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

Affordable web design: what you get and how it works

Based in Curitiba, Brazil, Aria has been building business websites since 2008. We work with businesses remotely, so a company in Selawik gets the same plan, at $89 a month, without meetings or visits.

1. Start with the online sign-up, which takes about 5 minutes, and send your material by email.
2. Your website is ready within 5 business days on a temporary link, so you can check every page before anything is published.
3. Approve it: the first monthly fee is issued and your domain starts showing the new site.

Later on, you send changes by email (a new price, a new photo, a new service) and the team makes them, with no extra charge.