OneLife Church has to be one of my all time favorite Green Thumbs, and I think you’ll be hard pressed to disagree. The overall look that OneLife Church embodies is friendly and inviting, with a palette of beautiful colors, and their overall branding matches well with the Venture site design. You’ll find all the ministries that they offer on their site with in-depth info for each, which helps to keep their congregation engaged. With so many resources on this site, you will certainly be engaged once you take a look!
Posted on August 24th, 2011 under Green Thumbs by Wes with no comments.
Homegirl Cafe is an awesome non-profit organization that is a part of Homeboy Industries located in Los Angeles. Their mission is to assist at-risk and formerly gang involved young women and men to become contributing members to the greater community. We love Homegirl Cafe because they are not afraid to the choose a distinctive design direction and stick with it throughout their site. Often times, we see companies create a site with awesome content, but they fail at keeping a consistent brand for their organization. Homegirl Cafe not only has a ton of content, but they back it up with great design.
Los Angeles, CA Site Design: Harmony
Posted on August 18th, 2011 under Green Thumbs by Wes with no comments.
One of our Clover family is featured on philanthroper.com today… Origin Coffee opened this last year as a 501(c)3, and gives every penny above operating costs away to International Justice Mission to help fight human trafficking.
They’re a really great group of people with great coffee, so if you’re up for helping them with their awesome cause, give today on philanthroper.com.
Posted on August 17th, 2011 under Stuff We're Into by Jim with no comments.
Happy Monday. As of today, every Clover website comes with the ability to have photo pages.
We’re super excited to get this new feature to you guys, and thank you for your patience as we tried to get this feature just right. There are a ton of photo players online, but it’s hard to find one that does everything perfectly… We’re hoping the whole experience of your new Clover photo page (from creation to viewing) is about as good as it gets. Here’s some quick features:
Each photo gallery:
- Allows you to have multiple albums (and link to them)
- Allows downloading of photos (at the creator’s discretion)
- Can view as a slideshow
- Can view fullscreen
- Can add captions
- Allows huge photo sizes for great quality photos
- Has a mobile version
There are a ton more features, but you have to check it out for yourselves. Try it out on your Clover website’s Greenhouse, or demo it here.
For those of you that want a walkthrough of this new feature, check this out:
Posted on August 1st, 2011 under Company News by Jim with 40 comments.
You read that correctly.
In honor of the launch of our brand new Photo Page, we are paying out 100% more for every referral to Clover that purchases a Clover website for the month of August. We felt this would be even more of a motivation to spread the word this summer (as if our normal $100/referral was too small) to all the people out there that need a touch of Clover in their lives.
The release of the Photo Page really opens Clover up even more to photographers, designers, realtors, and everyone else who has a huge need to have photo galleries on their websites. So keep doing what you’re already doing and spread the word!
Remember, though- This promotion is for the month of August. The person or organization you refer needs to purchase a Clover website by August 31st, 2011 for you to get the cash. You also need to be a Clover Friend, so if you haven’t signed up for our affiliate program do it today.
Good luck!
Posted on August 1st, 2011 under Company News by Jim with no comments.
Hey everyone -
We’re just about to launch the photo page, but we actually have a little surprise feature that we’re rolling out today. We just made it so you can embed external videos in your media player.
That means that instead of using the video conversion that’s built into Clover, you can directly embed videos from Vimeo or YouTube or any other video service!
This is especially useful for those of you who already put your videos on both your website and another video sharing site. Now you’ll only have to upload and convert them once, which should save quite a bit of time.
It also means that you can put full HD videos in your media player, taking advantage of the super high quality video that services like Vimeo offer.
The new feature is very easy to use and your videos will be organized in your media player just like normal. So you can still add a title/speaker/description/etc and even attach a document to each one.
The only caveat is that embedded videos won’t be included in your podcast (because iTunes can’t handle them).
Try it out on your website or in a demo on cloversites.com.
Posted on July 25th, 2011 under Company News by Ben with 20 comments.
We will be launching this new feature in the next few weeks, but we thought we’d give you a sneak peak at what the feature will look and function like. As always, this new feature will be added automatically (for free) to your Clover website.
Check it out:
Posted on July 12th, 2011 under Company News by Jim with 40 comments.
We know this feature was a bit under the radar, but we’re excited to get this new way of connecting your Clover website to your various forms of social media into your hands.
This is a feature we know a lot of you have been wanting for a while now, and have even been using some full pages and even logo space to point people towards your social media presence. But not anymore… Introducing our new “Social Links” feature!
This feature allows you to have a section on your website dedicated to providing links to your various forms of social media. They are located in different places in each of the different site designs… Below is an example of social links on the “Neue” site design.
To add this feature to your Clover site, go to your Greenhouse Dashboard and go to the “Site Settings” tab and you’ll see a button titled “Social Links”. You can add this new feature to your site here.
I created a quick walkthrough video highlighting this new feature. Check it out if you’d like:
We give you the ability in your Greenhouse Dashboard to not only customize the location these links point to, but even choose from a wide variety of icons and customize the directions you give your visitor when they rollover your icon.
The most common uses are pointing your visitors to your Facebook page, Twitter account, or other social media profiles. The feature will work great for that, but it can also be used for a ton of other things too… Here are some other (more creative) ways of using this new feature:
Link to any type of page on any social network. For example, you can link to your Facebook photos instead of your Facebook wall. You basically have the ability to link to any public URL you can find… So get creative!
Link to an email address by simply entering it in the URL field. Here’s how: Choose “Other” as the service, enter the email address in the url field, and then make the title something like “Contact Us”. You can use any icon you’d like, although the mail envelope might be the most appropriate…
Consider linking to the html/mobile version of your site and using the “accessibility” icon (the man in the circle). The url is just your website address with “?view=mobile” tacked onto the end.
Just some extra ideas with this new feature. Be sure to let us know if you have any questions. Enjoy!
Posted on June 30th, 2011 under Company News by Jim with 39 comments.
We randomly snuck this one in over this past month… We’ve had the Venture site design actually designed for about 2 years now, but haven’t put the finishing touches on it until just now (great job Matt & Kirby).
Venture is a super clean and simple site, and makes good use of the font “Archer“. If you haven’t messed with it yet, check it out in our demo today.
Posted on June 30th, 2011 under Company News by Jim with no comments.
