The Haverford College Web site, designed and built by White Whale, launched to the public on September 18, 2007.
The new Haverford.edu was designed and built by White Whale in late 2006 and 2007, in collaboration with a dedicated Haverford Web project committee, the Office of Marketing & Communications, and the greater community of Haverford students, faculty, staff, alumni and parents.
In addition to a new design, the new Haverford.edu includes a suite of custom-built Web applications, including a new enterprise-wide calendar; a news management application; a searchable database of Tri-College course descriptions; profiles for students, faculty and student organizations; a quick access page offering immediate one-click access to all Haverford departments, centers, programs, offices, and services; and an enhanced search results page that combines Web results from Haverford's newly purchased Google appliance with custom add-ons to extend search to news and events, profiles, and directory. The Haverford.edu site design is fully standards-based and XHTML compliant.
Our redesign process began in earnest in late September of 2006 with the Residency, an intensive week-long colloquium among Haverford's Web Committee, staff, faculty, students, alumni, and our designers. The collaborative process that followed is documented in White Whale's redesign blog, which operated during the most active months of the redesign process (March-June 2007). Since June we have been fine-tuning, completing our application development, and preparing for the public launch of the site (soft launch September 4, full launch September 18).