About Haverford.edu
The newly redesigned Haverford Web site represents the result of months of hard work, long conversations, deep thought and spirited debates among a large number of committed individuals. We are excited at the public launch of our site, and look forward to your feedback.
The new Haverford.edu was designed and built by White Whale Web Services in late 2006 and 2007, in collaboration with a dedicated Haverford Web project committee, the Communications Office, 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).
We are thankful to everyone who e-mailed, came to meetings, commented on the blog, and otherwise made your opinions and ideas known to us during the site development process. We hope you all can see the results of your input in this site. Please take the time to provide feedback on our Web feedback form; we will always remain open to your comments, questions, and suggestions.
The Haverford Web Committee and White Whale Web Services
September 1, 2007