Case study · Utilities & Energy · Juneau, Alaska

Juneau District Heating

Explaining seawater heat to a whole town

Launched Mar 2017 Live 9 years juneaudistrictheat.com ↗
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Explaining seawater heat to a whole town

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Visit juneaudistrictheat.com Built, hosted and looked after by Hoke Designs.

The site

Scroll the page, and the phone scrolls with you

A full-length capture of juneaudistrictheat.com, moving in step with the page.

1

Custom design & build

Designed around the client's content and customers rather than a template, and built on WordPress so their own staff can edit every page.

2

Smart forms

Contact, request and application forms that route to the right inbox, keep a copy in the site and stop spam before it lands.

3

Learning center

Courses and lessons people take at their own pace, with progress tracked per person.

4

Our photography

Every image on the site was shot by Hoke Designs — people, product and place — so the site looks like the business, not a stock library.

What we built

5 pieces, one site

Custom design & build

Designed around the client's content and customers rather than a template, and built on WordPress so their own staff can edit every page.

Smart forms

Contact, request and application forms that route to the right inbox, keep a copy in the site and stop spam before it lands.

Learning center

Courses and lessons people take at their own pace, with progress tracked per person.

Our photography

Every image on the site was shot by Hoke Designs — people, product and place — so the site looks like the business, not a stock library.

Managed hosting

Hosted on our Alaska-managed servers: daily backups, malware scanning, updates and a real person to call.

The story

The brief

Juneau District Heating proposes to heat downtown buildings with energy drawn from the channel. The site had to make an unfamiliar idea clear: how the system works, what it costs, what it means for a building owner. We paired our night photography of downtown with an illustrated explainer and a resource library.

What we did

A Juneau company developing a seawater heat-pump district heating system for downtown.

2016Moved onto our managed hosting
2017First site launched
TodayOn our managed hosting, 9 years on

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