Google has released a new search engine tier aptly named “Google Goggles” which can now display real time data like Twitter feeds and Facebook updates. Incredibly informative or incredibly annoying? Read more here.
Who are the people behind Clover? Do we have oompa loompas running the place? Well, to clear up the question of who makes up the Clover team we have set up an interview with Matt, who gives us insight into his background and also informs us of some cool stuff to look at.
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1: What do you do at Clover? What is your role in the team?
3: Give me a little bit of your background? What did you do prior to working at Clover?
I freelanced (not exciting), worked on staff at a church as a graphic designer (still not exciting) and worked at Apple retail (not exciting, but hey, free iPhone).
4: How did you find yourself working at Clover?
I blacked out, when I came to, I was missing a kidney and I was working at Clover. It all happened so fast.
5: How do you come up with an idea? How to you create something? How do you make something out of nothing? How are babies made?
It involves a lot of hard work and a fair amount of concentration.
I know a lot of you have blogs that correspond with your ministry’s website. Our favorite platform for blogging is by far WordPress. Some people get a little carried away and make WordPress blogging templates their actual website… Blogging works best when partnered with a main, foundational website. It’s a great way to cross promote your ministry. More links = more love.
I ran across this great list of WordPress templates this morning while on Smashing Magazine. Check them out. Some of them are kinda lame or niched to a specific industry, but there are some great ones out there.
Remember- some of these templates probably require you to have some understanding of code and programming to get it exactly how you like. They’re probably free to download, but getting everything exactly how you like it (especially if you’re a picky designer) might take a bit of work. You can pay some cash to have someone make it perfect for you, or if you’re a designer and you want to design it yourself, you can use PSD2HTML.com and have them chop it up and “WordPress it” for you for a minimal fee. We are actually in the process of redesigning our blog as I write…
One last warning, though. As we’ve written time and time again: Use tools for what they were created for. Even though you can dig a hole in your backyard to plant a flower with the back side of a hammer (the preferred use of a hammer by my wife), a hammer was created to pound stuff- not dig. Blogging templates were created for blogging. So check these templates out, and blog away!
When people hear good music they are driven to do things that they have not yet done. Whether it be a simple task, a tough undertaking, or an incredible goal, people have always turned to music for their inspiration. Each one of us at Clover takes inspiration from the music that we listen to, so here is a list of the artists that we counted on to get us through the month of September:
We are proud to announce the winners of the Worship Leader Magazine Website Giveaway Contest! We had hundreds of entrants, and 3 applicants emerged. Their story (and current sites) tugged our heart strings and allowed them to be crowned winners.
In true Clover fashion, we couldn’t choose just one… So we gave the winner, runner-up, and second runner-up all free websites. Congrats to all, and thanks everyone who applied!
Here’s a little peek behind the scenes of the Forgotten God DVD that our design company (The Regime) is shooting. You’re looking at Skid Row in downtown L.A. at 6am.
Yesterday morning we awoke to a phone call (well, to be honest Ben was ‘awoked’, I put him down as the emergency contact… genius) from the peeps who own the office building we lease from. They said there was some vandalism in our offices, and that someone had chucked a rock through one of our windows.
After arriving to our office to check out the damage, Ben found out they threw the rock (and Dell computer, ironically) through my office window. Here’s the aftermath…
Video footage revealed that it was just a couple of kids at about 4AM that morning just looking to break some stuff. The crazy thing is that they threw the computer first, then launched the rock right after in the same spot… I actually have a piece of the rock lodged in one of my pictures in my office. I’m definitely going to keep that there for a while.
Praise the Lord nothing was actually ripped off. They also totally missed my 30″ monitor (you can see throught the window on the first picture). So after all was said and done, I escaped with only a few scratches on my desk, monitor, and pictures. It could have been a ton worse.
