Websites
What you fix, sell or rent and how to reach you, quick on a phone, with a short form that works from a boat.
Petersburg from the air. Photo by John Bortniak, NOAA, public domain
Website design for Petersburg businesses
Elyisius is based in Soldotna, and we work online with businesses in Petersburg. This is a fishing town first, and a lot of your customers are on the water, working odd hours. We build websites that answer them whenever they come up for air.
Call (907) 953-7384 or use the form below.
What we help with
Business Systems
Requests from your website land in one list with the boat, the job and the date, so nothing gets missed during an opening.
Social Media
We help your posts and your website work together, so people who see you online have somewhere clear to go next.
Doing business in Petersburg
Petersburg sits at the north end of Wrangell Narrows on Mitkof Island, and it's built around its harbors. The borough says more than 500 commercial fishing boats are homeported here, with three major seafood plants and some smaller custom processors. The Norwegian roots show every May at the Little Norway Festival.
Visitors come too, but in small numbers. Only small cruise ships call here, about 85 scheduled for 2026, along with the ferry and people flying in to fish or hunt. So most of the year, your customers are fishermen, crews and neighbors. Your website has to tell them what you do and let them reach you at five in the morning or ten at night.
Websites we've built
Pick one and see the work live.
How we build it
We start with a call
We go over your website, your Google Business Profile, your social media and how customers reach you, and we listen to what's been eating your time.
We plan around the fleet
When your customers need you, what they ask first and who's visiting. That decides what goes on each page.
We build it and connect it
The design, the words and the forms, tied into the tools you already use, so a request sent from the harbor reaches you.
We update it between seasons
We change what's changed, from rates to photos, and show you which pages bring people in. It's your site, in your own accounts.
What Petersburg owners ask about website design
Can a Soldotna company build my Petersburg website
Yes, a Soldotna company can build your Petersburg website. We do nearly all of it online with you, on video calls and in accounts that belong to you, so the miles between us don't hold anything up. And if a job truly needs us on Mitkof Island, we'll plan the trip.
Can my website help a marine business in Petersburg
Yes, your website can help a marine business in Petersburg. Boat owners want to know what you work on and how soon you can get to them. Your site answers that and takes the request any time, so it's waiting when you get back to the shop.
Can my website bring in visitors from the small cruise ships
Yes, your website can bring in visitors from the small cruise ships. Those travelers often look up the town before they arrive. Your site can show what you offer, where you are from the dock and how to book.
Does my website need to work on a phone
Yes, your website needs to work on a phone, especially here. Most people looking you up are on a boat, at the harbor or traveling. We build every page to load quickly and read easily on a small screen.
Do you work with businesses near Petersburg
Yes, we work online with businesses in Petersburg and across Southeast, including Wrangell, Ketchikan, Sitka, Haines and Skagway. We're based in Soldotna, with Kenai and Nikiski close by on the peninsula.
Can we meet in person
Yes, we can meet in person. We can meet you at your business, or we can get on a video call.
How much does it cost
What it costs depends on what your business needs, and there are a lot of options, which is why every job starts with discovery and a system evaluation. We build the smallest thing that removes the problem, and it's measured against what that problem already costs you every month. That way you can weigh the work against the time and money you're already losing to it. We're glad to give you some price ranges if that helps. Even better, if you let us know what you'd like to spend and what you need done, we'll put together the best options we can for that.
How long before we see something working
You'll see something working once the first process is built, because we start with the issues that are costing you time, money and frustration. Starting small means you're not waiting on a big project to finish before anything changes. You get to watch it work on your real messages before we build the second one, and if something needs adjusting, that's when we find out.
Contact us
Tell us where to reach you, and we'll get back to you.