We've been in business since 2000.
- First business license: 2000
- First whitewhale.net site: 2000
- Second employee: 2002
- First non-home office: 2002
- First shredder: 2003
- First bookkeeper: 2003
- Incorporated: 2004 (RI); 2006 (CA)
We have over 40 combined years of experience in higher ed Web design and development.
In the last six years, we've completed 24 site redesigns for 13 colleges and universities, including 11 full-scale .edu enterprise redesigns.
Two of our five employees work in our downtown office; the others work in Portland, Oregon; Chicago, Illinois; and New York City.
And here's some other things you might not know about us:
- All five of us have college degrees, but only one is in a field even remotely related to Web design. Four of us went to really good colleges. Three of us have postgrad degrees.
- Three of us are married. Three of us (not the same three) own homes. Four of us cohabitate.
- Three of us drive Volkswagens. (Trendy.)
One of us drives a Prius. (Very trendy.)
One of us doesn't drive. (Super trendy!) - Collectively we have four cats and two dogs.
- Two of us have kids.
- Two of us are vegetarians.
- One of us owns property in Bombay.
- Two of us are musicians. Two of us have published books of poetry. Only one of us knows how to knit.