Not the most sexy of new features, but for those who’ve needed to verify to Google that you own your domain, this domain verification process used to be a time-consuming and techy process. We’ve made it super easy for you in your Dashboard to complete this verification process. Domain verification is needed if you want to use some of Google’s services (like Google Apps and Webmaster Tools).
All you need to do to get to your Google Domain Verification settings is go to the “Site Settings” tab in your Greenhouse Dashboard and click the button titled “Google Domain Verification”.
Once you’re there, you just paste the “Meta Tag Code” Google gives you, click “Save”, and you’re done. Just like that.
Posted on June 30th, 2011 under Company News by Jim with no comments.
About a month ago we launched a feature in your Clover Dashboard that allows you to add a browser icon (also known as a “favicon”) to your website. A favicon is the little 16 x 16 pixel image that shows up in web browsers when someone visits a website. They show up differently in each browser (see pics below), but all modern browsers support them. Here are examples of cloversites.com in:
Firefox:
Chrome:
and Safari:
Not all sites have them (or even want them), but for a while now people have asked about the possibility of having this little feature on their Clover website. We’ve thought about adding this feature for a while, and never quite got around to it till now. Thanks for your patience everyone… Especially you, Justin, since you were the first to request this feature!
This feature is pretty subtle, but for those designers out there this is a big deal. This means that most times when people bookmark your Clover site, your site’s title (which you can change in the Dashboard too) as well as this icon will show up in the menu. Just a little branding help for you guys… And for those non-designers who still want to have a cool icon next to their URL, have no fear- it’s super easy to add. Just go to you your Clover Dashboard, and under your “Site Settings” button you’ll find a new button called “Browser Icon (Favicon)”. This will give you the easy steps to add this icon on your site.
Posted on June 30th, 2011 under Company News by Jim with no comments.
As most of you know by now, we’ve launched a bunch of new features over the past few weeks. As usual, we’ve done a not-so-great of job communicating what we’ve done on our blog… It seems that our giftedness really is in the creation of the feature, not necessarily blogging about it. Oh well.
With that being said, I’m going to do some individual posts for the next little while highlighting these new features. Hopefully the following posts show you a feature you didn’t notice before (or didn’t care about), and/or give you some ideas on how you can make your Clover site a little more robust.
Posted on June 30th, 2011 under Company News by Jim with no comments.
Along with the rest of the features we’ve been releasing recently, we’re launching two more today!
Form Reporting
This was the most requested addition to the new form page feature. As of right now, you can enable reporting on any of your form pages, and we’ll start storing all the submissions that come in. Then you can download a spreadsheet report that combines all the submissions from that form.
Check it out by going to the settings on any form page that you have (in your Greenhouse), or feel free to try it in a demo site. Here is a quick article with some form reporting tips.
Social Links
Easily add social media links on your site. In your Dashboard you can now set up links to your social networking sites by simply going to the “Site Settings” tab, then clicking “Social Links”. This new features adds icons on your site that link to each of your profiles or pages.
We know a lot of you have been using your logo space and even have entire pages dedicated to pointing your visitors in the direction of your social media, so now you don’t have to jimmy-rig it anymore!
I made this quick video showing you how to set it up. We hope you enjoy this awesome new feature:
Posted on June 22nd, 2011 under Company News by Jim with 26 comments.
Hey guys -
Here’s a quick update of what we’ve been doing for the past month. We’ve got a significant amount of the photo page feature built, the form page reporting tool is also getting close, and we’re trying to finish up a new feature that will let you put social networking links on your site. All three of those features will launch one after another in the coming weeks!
Also, we launched several little things at the same time as the form page, but we never publicized them. Here’s a rundown:
- Favicons! You can now change the little icon that appears next to the title of your site at the top of your browser window. For you designers out there, we know your hearts are swelling with joy.
- Super-easy Google domain verification. For some of Google’s services (like Google Apps and Webmaster Tools), you have to prove to Google that you own your domain. This has always been an annoyingly techie process, but we just made it so you can copy and paste one piece of text and it’s done!
- New Site Design: Venture. It’s clean and conservative… and it’s one of my new favorites. Check it out on the websites page.
To add a favicon to your site, or to use the new google verification tool, go to the settings page on your Greenhouse Dashboard. We hope you enjoy these new little features while we get ready to launch some more big ones!
Posted on June 13th, 2011 under Company News by Ben with 10 comments.
YesMan is an organization based out of Norway, and they specialize in event consulting, entertainment, and even supporting a collection of musicians and artists. The YesMan site has done a great job of promoting not only their services, but also profiling the artists they represent. The presentation for each of their events is creatively designed with eye catching full page layouts and excellent photos. Even if you don’t speak Norsk, you’re going to appreciate what the YesMan organization has done with their website!
Posted on June 8th, 2011 under Green Thumbs by Luke with no comments.
Intown Community School is an organization that is committed to cultivating a love of learning among their students. Their site helps keep the parents and students connected and informed with the events and services they provide, and they incorporate great design at the same time. The photographs on their site are beautifully taken and include actual students and staff, which help to make their site more “real” and inviting. Check out how they have made use of all the Clover resources and be inspired!
Posted on June 1st, 2011 under Green Thumbs by Wes with no comments.
Theatre for Young Audiences is a national service organization whose mission is to promote the power of professional theatre for young audiences and they has been doing just that for over 45 years. Their website makes great use of all the features that Clover offers and showcases all of the programs, publications and projects they endorse. The use of colors, fonts and photos is consistent throughout the site, and the overall brand for Theatre for Young Audiences is simply beautiful. Check out their site to see some creative solutions!
Posted on May 27th, 2011 under Green Thumbs by Wes with no comments.
FrancisChan.org is the website for speaker and author, Francis Chan. The design elements are fairly minimalistic throughout, and it features beautiful black and white photography capturing Francis’ dynamic speaking style. This definitely helps to strengthen his brand as both an author and a speaker. On his site you’ll find a wealth of resources with media items, a schedule for his upcoming speaking engagements, and a way to contact him for speaking events.
We guarantee you’ll find some great inspiration at this site!
FrancisChan.org
Posted on May 20th, 2011 under Green Thumbs by Wes with 2 comments.
