Besides a totally new redesign and integration into WordPress, the team at Sundog Media also implemented a variety of custom solutions like a shopping system that allows visitors to search by inventory, manufacturer and product categories.

Services: Web Design/Custom Solutions

Launch Site

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Besides a totally new redesign and integration into the WordPress Multi-site system, the team at Sundog Media working along side APU’s Mike Baker & Travis Johnson also implemented a variety of great features and custom solutions:

• A Custom Interactive Map

• A Custom & Expandable Navigation System

• Dynamic Calendar Integration

• Flickr Photo Integration

• Custom post type for Offices and People

• Over 30 Custom Email Forms

• Unique Photo Presentations throughout the site

• And Much More!

After just four days of being live, the site was featured in the StudioPress Showcase!

Have a look a the new Alaska Pacific University website for yourself »

Be sure to let us know what you think in the comments below!

A portal for GCI Managed Broadband customers. With their login information, customers have access to a robust set of tools, service features, documents, and resources to help them with the services they are receiving from GCI.

Sundog Media had the pleasure of  tackling the user interface design and the great team at Tex R Us handled the build and development.

Launch Site

Founded in 1957 by a group of parents who knew community-based services were better than institutions, The ARC’s goal is to ensure the people they serve have the opportunity to lead rich, full, satisfying lives as valued members of their community.

Services: Conversion from Joomla into WordPress
Sundog Media converted The Arc of Anchorage website from being within the Joomla CMS into the much better and easier to use WordPress CMS. Find out more about WordPress here!

Launch Site

Your needs are their motivation. Ensuring you realize your project is their goal – from Planning through detailed Design into Construction. You need a professional team who delivers innovative and accurate products without loose ends. PDC has approximately 80 employees and two strategic partnerships to serve you.

“PDC – We Transform Challenges into Solutions!”

Services: Conversion from a Static HTML site into WordPress site!
Sundog Media converted the PDC Inc. Engineers website from being just a static html webiste into the much better and easier to use WordPress website. Find out more about WordPress here!

Launch Site

Sundog Media has been focused on custom website design for well over 15 years. We’re a small but passionate team of professionals, and now it’s time for us to add a certain special someone to our team. Someone who is not satisfied with work that is average, but someone who is driven and has a desire to be part of something brilliant!

Perhaps that person is you? Are you passionate about illustration, typography and designing for web and emerging technologies? Do you have experience in UI design, development and project management? Do you have an expert understanding of graphic design principles from typography to color and composition? Do you welcome feedback from co-workers and clients? If you thought to yourself, “Why yes, I do all of those things brilliantly!” Terrific! Then you just might be the person we want! So keep reading!!

Here’s some requirements:

• You need to live in Alaska.

• You need to possess exemplary design skills, including a meticulous sense of detail for exquisite layout and typography.

• You must have the ability to seek out simple solutions to complex design challenges.

• You must have a thorough understanding of interaction design and user experience.

• You need to have a reasonable understanding of HTML/CSS and how design impacts code.

• You are an expert in the Adobe CS Suite, particularly Photoshop, Illustrator and InDesign would be a bonus.

• If you have some WordPress experience & skills that’s A BIG PLUS.

• Your design style should be clean and it should balance beauty with usability.

• You understand how good design affects customer happiness.

• You need to have outstanding written and presentation skills.

• You have to have 1-2 years of web design experience.  Although if you are an amazing graphic artist and are hungry to design for the web than you might just fit.

• You enjoy having a high level of independence, energy and integrity, that also demonstrates respect for a diversity of opinions and styles, and accepts accountability and responsibility.

Some of your responsibilities will include (but won’t be limited to) the following:

• You will have a leadership role in creating, overseeing and communicating the visual direction of a website and UI project and you will provide detailed style guides and specs when applicable.

• You will assist in the build and propagation of text, photos, features.

• You will need to be able to multitask, prioritize & communicate your progress in a fast paced environment.

• You will work closely with customers through all aspects of the design process.

• You will work collaboratively with our production team to materialize the creative vision.

Here’s some of the benefits you’ll receive:

• A competitive wage.

• You’ll be able to work from home.

• You’ll work with team that puts family first.

• This is a full-time gig!

Okay, let’s see what you can do, so show us your portfolio:

Please use the form below to tell us about yourself, and why we should hire you! By all means, send us your current resume as well (in .pdf format)!

NOTE: You MUST provide work samples as part of this application process…so PLEASE provide us links to your portfolio, or provide us with work samples in .pdf format. Also, please do indicate your role and contribution for each project submitted. Feel free to attach a current resume as well.

WordPress plugins are terrific

For those of you who are hosting your WordPress site with us, you know that we are continually maintaining and upgrading the plugins within your site. Because we are responsible for this aspect of your site, we take great care when upgrading any of the plugins we’ve installed. This means that we check out the plugins thoroughly, we make sure that the upgrade is necessary and will work with your current version of WordPress and that there aren’t any reported “bugs” that would impact your site in any way.

There are a plethora of WordPress plugins available. Have a look, and see for yourself. There are literally thousands of them that are free, and there’s a few that only cost a few dollars to use. Sounds great doesn’t it? Well, it is. But one of the things we can’t stress enough to you is…whatever you do…DO NOT INSTALL A PLUGIN ON YOUR OWN!

While all of these plugins are fun to look at and read through and think about, it is entirely possible that some of them can conflict with not only other plugins that are in your site, but they can sometimes conflict with your site as well! And that can have serious repercussions! Imagine if you will, you find a great plugin, you install it, thinking that all is well, and the next thing you know your site is down and offline! Uh-oh. And then, because it’s not a plugin that we approved or installed, you will have to contact us to fix it for you and then we’ll have to charge you for our time.

So please feel free to say to your Account Manager, “Hey Account Manager, I saw this great plugin over here – [insert link to the plugin you like] and I’d love to have that installed and working on my website, what do you think?” Your Account Manager will spring into action, check out the plugin in question, and then let you know if it’s viable, doable, or if there is something else that would do the trick for you even better!

Because as this cliche so aptly puts it – “Better safe, then sorry.”

Thanks from your Sundog Media Team