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 26 site redesigns for 15 colleges and universities, including 13 full-scale .edu enterprise redesigns.
Only one of our five employees works in our downtown Oakland office; the others work in Portland, Oregon; Chicago, Illinois; Amesbury, Massachusetts; 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 two are in fields even remotely related to Web design. Three of us have postgrad degrees.
- Four of us are married. Four of us (not the same four) own homes.
- Three of us drive Volkswagens. (Trendy.)
One of us drives a Mini. (Very trendy.)
One of us doesn't drive. (Super trendy!) - Collectively we have four daughters, six cats, and three dogs. Thankfully, they are never all in the same room.
- One of us is a vegetarian. One of us is a hockey fan.
- One of us owns property in Bombay.
- Two of us are musicians. One of us has published books of poetry, another one knows how to knit.