Site launches are a really big deal for us; we work with only a few clients at a time, so by rights we ought to stop the presses and pop champagne whenever one of our clients’s sites opens to the public. But inevitably new client work (and summer vacations) intervene, and our celebrations wind up being more private.
I wrote a blog post the day the Kenyon College site launched, and had intended to do something more splashy. I still might. We at White Whale are all very, very happy with how the Kenyon site came out, and are very proud of Kenyon’s able Public Affairs staff, who did a great job of implementing our CSS/XHTML designs into a sometimes unforgiving CMS; we’ve been there to help, but most of the finishing work was done on their end. So— Shawn, Patty, Rebecca: congratulations again.
But I’m really writing to talk about something specific that is happening to the design, which in my view is the most exciting thing about it.
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And it’s open to the world, for all to see.
We work with a very small number of clients at any given time, and as a result we don’t get to enjoy the experience of a site launch very often; it sounds ridiculous, but our last site launch of major consequence was the Haverford site, which launched almost nine months ago. We’ve certainly been hella busy since then, but this is our first flower to bloom in 2008.
I’ll have more to write about this later, most likely in an article for the main WW site. I don’t think anyone reads this blog yet besides the other White Whalers, but just in case, to mark the occasion: here’s the first collection of Kenyon design ideas that we posted for internal discussion, on October 23, 2007.
My sincere thanks to everyone at Kenyon, everyone at WW, and everyone else reading this blog (which basically means you, Mom).
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