The Junky Car Club was established in the spring of 2006 when Mike Foster decided to sell his fully loaded sports car and opt out for a “junky car”. With the desire to give more to worthy causes, Mike began to enlist his friends to join him in his experiment of driving clunkers and giving more. And the best part is that The Junky Car Club provides the opportunity to sponsor a child with a monthly donation that would otherwise be going toward your car. With lively colors, great photography and tons of media resources, this site about as engaging as it gets. This is one of our favorite sites and we guarantee you will see why once you take a look.
Posted on May 13th, 2011 under Green Thumbs by Wes with no comments.
The Bully Proof Foundation is a national organization that aims to eliminate the bullying epidemic in schools by engaging and educating students. Their team clearly understands the territory that comes with such a huge mission and they are making full use of the tools Clover provides. Their great design, videos, photography, and graphics correspond with their philosophy: to raise awareness and be outspoken. Take a look at the Bully Proof Foundation website and see how they have created a successful identity for their organization.
Houston, TX Site Design: Sunset
Posted on May 9th, 2011 under Green Thumbs by Wes with no comments.
It has really been amazing to see how much this feature has been used (and commented on) already. During the first three days (two of which were over the weekend), you guys created over 1000 forms! To be honest, we didn’t realize how much demand was out there for this.
Because of that, and because of your vocal responses, we decided to start working on a reports feature right now. We planned out the details this morning and I think it’s going to be a really nice additional feature. It’ll give you an excel spreadsheet of all the submissions that will be accessible at any time.
Next to the reports feature, the most requested thing by far is the ability to add a form without having to devote a whole page to it. This is a bit embarrassing to say, but we actually never thought about that until now. We’ve been giving it some thought, and we have a couple good ways we could do this, but either way will take some serious work to implement. We hear you loud and clear about how useful this would be, so we’ll keep considering how and when to do this.
As far as the other questions go, as usual, anything that we can do quickly, we’ll try to knock out asap. We already fixed the issue with the enter key inadvertently submitting the form, and we’ve made about a dozen other small fixes, too. There’s nothing like having 1000 people test out a product in three days.
For things like hidden/hard-coded text, rules that show/hide other form items, etc, we’d love to be able to add functionality like that, but it’s probably not something we’re going to do in the near future.
Payment processing is definitely something we would love to add. As always, if/when we add it, we want to get it right, rather than just adding a crappy quick fix. It’s not something we’re going to be able to do immediately, but we may tackle it in the future.
The truth with all the possible features is that we can only do so much at one time. The photo album feature is the next thing on the dock, so the more we go back and try to perfect the form page, the more the photo albums (and everything else) gets pushed back.
The good news is, though, that our development team is getting better and faster all the time. As we speak (or as you read?) we’re working on several projects at the same time, and as usual, we’ll show them to you as soon as we can!
Thanks for being such great fans and customers.
Posted on May 3rd, 2011 under Company News by Ben with 73 comments.
Every Clover website is now equipped with the ability to add form pages.
If you own a Clover site, you now have the easiest way to create a form on the web. Even if you don’t have a need to collect information from your visitors, it’s worth messing with just to see how easy it is to create a form.
Hats off to Jeremy, who has put some long and hard hours into this feature.
Here’s a walkthrough of this new feature:
We’ve also put together a super in-depth help article that has both a written walkthrough and also a reference of all the advanced options that are possible.
Thanks for waiting for this feature! Happy form creating…
Posted on April 29th, 2011 under Company News by Jim with 52 comments.
Here are the ticket winners for the Catalyst Dallas ticket giveaway:
Winner 1: Brett Meyers (@kicklucky)
Winner 2: Joel Keck (via Facebook)
Back-up (just in case Brett or Joel can’t go): Trent Davis (via Facebook)
To claim your prizes and get further directions, contact Mary at mary@cloversites.com (or call us at 805-527-8900 and ask for Mary). If you are a winner and will not be able to make it, please contact us asap so we can let Trent know!
Congrats guys, and thanks again for everyone that entered.
Here is evidence that the drawing was not rigged in any way:
Posted on April 29th, 2011 under Company News by Jim with no comments.
We’re proud to be sponsors at the first ever Catalyst Dallas, happening May 11-13. As most of you know, we’ve been sponsors of Catalyst East & West, and now that they’re deciding to meet folks in the middle of our country, we thought we’d join them there too.
We recently gave away 4 tickets to Catalyst West, and were able to hook up some fine folks with some tickets. Since we’re big fans of hooking people up, we decided to do the same thing with Catalyst Dallas. So we’ll be giving away 4 tickets (2 per winner- 2 winners total) to Catalyst Dallas this week. Here’s how you qualify for the giveaway:
1. Must be willing to travel to Dallas on your own dime. This contest is not limited to locals, but you’ve gotta get yourself out to Dallas and handle your own food and lodging for this event. We’re simply hooking you up with tickets.
2. Must Re-Tweet the following phrase:
@cloversites is giving away 4 tickets to #CatDallas. Go here for more details: http://bit.ly/ep2UCO
Or, if not on Twitter comment “Hey Clover- I want to go to Catalyst Dallas!” on this post off our Facebook page.
Like last time, we’ll do a drawing and announce it on our blog (and Twitter and Facebook). We’ll announce it at 12PM Pacific on Friday (April 29th). We’ll be sure to contact the winners asap, and tell you where at the event to pick up your tickets.
Good luck everyone!
Posted on April 25th, 2011 under Company News by Jim with no comments.
Lately there’s been an uprising of questions on our blog about the progress of our new forms feature. We’ve been working hard on it for a while now, and since a lot of you have been asking about it, we thought it’d be good to give you a quick glance at our progress to date. We’ve been hesitant to show it simply because it looks like it’s just about done… But in true Clover style, we want to make sure it works perfectly and all the glitches are fixed before we release it just so you don’t get frustrated. So to answer your question as vaguely as possible before you ask it, the forms feature will be released to all Clover customers “soon”.
We still have a bit more work to do on it, but here’s your first look at the new forms feature:
Posted on March 31st, 2011 under Company News by Jim with 57 comments.
We’re proud to announce 3 new site designs. Here they are:
Eden:
This site design has a ton of flexibility, and gives you designers out there a chance to make something vibrant and stunning. Demo this site and really mess around with the background gradients… There are some beautiful color combinations that are possible.
Alliance:
We created a kinda retro/grunge/designer site for those out there who want a bit more character in your website. You have the ability to turn the different background layers off (ie. rays of sun and paper) to really create the look you want.
Echo Park:
This site design gives you the ability to have a either a stunning or more reserved look… The site is super easy to navigate, as well as easy to make look good.
Be sure to check all our site designs out when you get a chance. You can demo them all on our website.
Posted on March 30th, 2011 under Company News by Jim with 6 comments.
As some of you already know, we moved locations this past December from Simi Valley to Newbury Park, California (about 25 minutes away). Since this move didn’t impact our customers too much (with the exception of the occasional drill or saw buzzing in the background of a phone call), we’ve kinda kept our move on the hush until we were completed with the entire space.
Last Thursday night (St. Patricks Day – which we thought was perfect) we had our big open house party where we finally were able to show off our new space to a couple hundred friends, family and clients. We had an amazing time, and Ben and I were proud to show off our newly renovated space.
I wanted to post some pics of the party for you guys… Thanks again to all who were able to come out and support us!
We are having the entire space shot over the next couple of weeks, so I’ll be sure to post again when we have some great photos that will tell more of the story of our new offices. In the meantime, check out a couple shots of the night:
Posted on March 21st, 2011 under Company News by Jim with 6 comments.
