Alaskanstar

Alaskan Star Interactive works out of a small Miami Beach, Florida operation, building custom website development, Flash design and content management applications for clients that have included Nickelodeon, Sony, MTV and the U.S. Department of Commerce. The agency has been creating database-driven websites since 1995, giving it a longer track record than most shops working at this scale.

Every site and database is hand crafted rather than assembled from templates, with design and development handled from top to bottom based on what each client actually needs. The agency describes its approach as a marriage of design and functionality, and builds systems so clients can deliver their own data and accept user input in the format and specifications they require, rather than conforming to a fixed system.

Prospective clients can request access to a demo website to test drive the kind of dynamic sites the agency produces before committing to a project. The company points to customer service and more than a decade of experience as the core of its working relationship with clients, an approach shaped by decades of hands-on database and website work rather than one-off builds.