Memorial nonprofit honoring lost mariners
A dignified digital memorial honoring the mariners of Wrangell, Alaska lost at sea — backed by a complex custom admin dashboard that took serious development time and budget to build right.
Custom
Admin dashboard for memorial records
Family-managed tribute system + maritime archive
In build
Active development — launching 2026
Heritage
Decades of mariner history preserved digitally
The story
The challenge
Memorial websites carry weight. The Wrangell community needed a site that balanced solemnity with warmth, organized decades of mariner history, and gave family members an authoritative way to submit and update tribute records — without exposing the public-facing tone to the rough edges of an admin interface.
What we built
Two-layer build: a respectful public memorial with maritime heritage storytelling, plus a dedicated admin dashboard for moderating tributes, managing the mariner archive, and handling submission workflows. The admin layer is the unsung hero — extensive logic for record approval, image handling, and historical data structure.
What happened
Currently in active development. Will serve as a permanent digital monument for the Wrangell community and the families of mariners lost at sea, with a maintainable backend the community can operate themselves.
The admin dashboard nobody sees
Behind the public memorial sits one of the most time-intensive admin builds we've shipped — record approval workflows, historical data management, image moderation, and a structured maritime archive system. It's the work the community will rely on for decades, even though visitors will never see it.
The site itself
What this involved
Next project
Wrangell Mariners Memorial Admin
The admin layer behind the memorial — record approval workflows, historical data management, image moderation, and a structured maritime archive.