One of the coolest things about the church media crowd is that you guys are at the forefront of technology buzz. You’re the early adopters and the first ones to know about the latest technologies and trends. Because of that, you’re also the most concerned about HTML5 and the future of the web.
To be honest, I’ve delayed writing about HTML5 because I didn’t feel like it was important for us to be in the argument. Clover has long provided the best of what’s available on both Flash and HTML, and nothing has changed about that. But recently we’ve realized that there’s so much misinformation floating around that it was time to debunk some myths and give our perspective on the issue.
What Is HTML
I’ll start at the beginning. HTML is one of the languages that the web is written in. It’s been around for a long time and it’s evolved and expanded in spurts as different programming groups have added features. The most difficult sticking point for HTML is that it is handled differently by different browsers, and it has to be backwards-compatible (meaning that any new features still have to work with the old ones, unless you’re Microsoft and you don’t care).
There have been several versions of HTML, and for most of the past decade, XHTML was hailed as the latest and greatest (i heart validator, anyone?). Unfortunately, after years of hopeful work, XHTML was never actually ratified and is now dead.
Enter HTML5, the new latest and greatest. Read More…
Posted on July 1st, 2010 under Our Opinions by Ben with 7 comments.
Clover is proud to be a sponsor of the Story Conference that is happening in Chicago on September 23-24th. Story’s intention is to gather artists from the church who are communicating the greatest story ever told. Read More…
Posted on June 25th, 2010 under Stuff We're Into by Jim with no comments.
As of today, all site design switches are only $200.
With the new Greenhouse launched and more capabilities available to Clover users, we wanted to give you a chance to “freshen up”. If you haven’t noticed the earlier post, we’ve also released some brand new site designs to inspire you. Read More…
Posted on June 22nd, 2010 under Company News by Jim with 6 comments.We’ve just released 3 new site designs for you. We know it’s been a while since we’ve released new designs, but with the launch of the new Greenhouse things have been a bit hectic around here. The new site designs are Brighton, Vetica, and Woodland. Read More…
Posted on June 22nd, 2010 under Company News by Jim with 1 comment.A couple weeks ago we gave away an iPad on Justin Taylor’s blog “Between Two Worlds”. To enter the contest, visitors were asked to post a comment about “someone in your life who has taught you how to love Christ more, and follow him more closely.”
In the six days the contest ran, people wrote in on what is quite possibly the first blog post in the history of the internet to have 1091 encouraging comments in a row.
The woman who won had an especially touching story. It’s definitely worth reading: http://thegospelcoalition.org/blogs/justintaylor/2010/06/07/and-the-ipad-giveway-winner-is/
If you have some extra time, the entire list of comments is pretty amazing to read as well. It definitely encouraged us to be that kind of person in someone else’s life.
Posted on June 17th, 2010 under Company News by Ben with no comments.
Clover has been a proud sponsor of Justin Taylor’s blog for a while now, and after hearing a little of Clover’s story decided to interview me on his blog. You can check out the interview here.
We are also planning on doing an iPad giveaway through his site sometime early next week, so stay tuned for that.
Posted on May 28th, 2010 under Randomisms by Jim with 2 comments.If you’ve been to any conferences Clover has sponsored, you’ve probably met some of our people representing us at our booth. We’ve got a great team of people who rep us all over the country- some on staff, and some volunteer.
If you had a chance to go to Catalyst West Coast a couple of weeks ago, you might have run into our friend, Mondo Scott. Mondo is the Student Life Pastor at Cornerstone Church in Moorpark (and Clover user), and graciously accepted the invitation to represent us at Catalyst. Read More…
Posted on May 5th, 2010 under Randomisms by Jim with no comments.For those we met at Catalyst West Coast, here is the official drawing for the iPad.
And the winner is…
MARK ZIEGLER from Desert Cross Community Church
Congrats, Mark, and thanks to everyone who entered.
Posted on April 30th, 2010 under Company News by Jim with 3 comments.As of 2:30AM this morning, all sites have been officially switched over. It’s been a long few weeks getting all the final little bugs worked out, but it’s done. Thanks everyone for your ample amounts of patience on this roll out. We couldn’t be more happy to get this new tool out to all you guys!
Here are a few videos highlighting the new Greenhouse (Thanks Jacob and Bjorn for the great 3 out of 4 videos below… I did horribly capturing the bottom video. Sorry.):
60 Second Promo:
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It’s coming… We have a video to prove it. Will you guys get excited, already?
We’ll put this bad boy up soon on our Greenhouse Updates page.
Posted on April 23rd, 2010 under Company News by Jim with 29 comments.