Southeast Living Magazine
Southeast Alaska's home, lifestyle and real estate magazine, with every issue online
from design to hosting
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Southeast Alaska's home, lifestyle and real estate magazine, with every issue online
The site
Scroll the page, and the phone scrolls with you
A full-length capture of seakliving.com, moving in step with the page.
Custom design & build
Designed around the magazine's content and readers rather than a template, and built on WordPress so the publisher's own team edits every page.
Digital edition archive
Every issue since 2011 embedded as a page-flipping magazine, browsable by month and year — the whole print run in one place.
Advertising store
Ad placements sold as products: a single month, or a monthly subscription that renews and bills itself through WooCommerce Subscriptions and Stripe.
Contributor logins & columns
A dozen columnists with their own accounts, author pages and archives, and role-based access so each can publish only their own work.
Before & after
Then and now
Drag the handle.
The magazine site as it ran in 2018 and as it runs now.
2018Today
We strive to keep the communities of Southeast Alaska connected and to help local businesses prosper.
Photography by the Southeast Living teamPhotography
The photography behind the site
9 photographs in this set · Photography by the Southeast Living team
What we built
8 pieces, one site
Custom design & build
Designed around the magazine's content and readers rather than a template, and built on WordPress so the publisher's own team edits every page.
Digital edition archive
Every issue since 2011 embedded as a page-flipping magazine, browsable by month and year — the whole print run in one place.
Advertising store
Ad placements sold as products: a single month, or a monthly subscription that renews and bills itself through WooCommerce Subscriptions and Stripe.
Contributor logins & columns
A dozen columnists with their own accounts, author pages and archives, and role-based access so each can publish only their own work.
Event photo galleries
Community events shot by the magazine's team and published as galleries: tournaments, festivals, recitals and derbies across Southeast.
Newsletter
A branded newsletter that keeps readers and advertisers posted between print issues.
Smart forms
Contact and submission forms that route to the right inbox, keep a copy in the site and stop spam before it lands.
Managed hosting
Hosted on our Alaska-managed servers since 2012: daily backups, malware scanning, updates and a real person to call.
The story
The brief
Southeast Living is a monthly glossy about life in the Panhandle: homes, food, health, real estate and the people behind them. It is published in Juneau and handed out free at more than a hundred spots from Ketchikan north, with a print run of about 4,000 an issue. The site was our very first hosted client, back in 2012, and its job has never changed: everything that prints goes online the same day, at no extra cost to the advertisers who make the magazine possible.
What we did
Every edition is embedded as a page-flipping digital magazine, with a browsable archive that reaches back to the first issue in 2011. A dozen regular contributors have their own columns and author pages, and the event galleries — Holiday Cup soccer, the Maritime Festival, the Golden North Salmon Derby, the skating recitals — are shot and published by the magazine's own team. Advertisers buy their space right on the site, from a business-directory listing to a two-page spread, either for a single month or as a recurring monthly subscription billed automatically through WooCommerce Subscriptions and Stripe. Contributors sign in with their own accounts, and a newsletter keeps readers posted between issues.
What changed
Fourteen years on, the site holds the complete run of the magazine: more than a hundred digital editions and four hundred-plus articles, all still searchable, while advertisers renew their monthly placements without anyone chasing an invoice.
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