New Joomla Templates Site Live Now – Give Me Feedback
Joomla Templates
This will be a short post as I’m absolutely knackered.
After literally months of work in-between client projects, and probably 160 hours of work I have finally made the new Joomla Bear Joomla Templates site live.
I still have some bugs to iron out and a few things that could do with a bit of a tidy up – but overall I think it’s one of the most interesting and creative sites I’ve ever built.
A bit of a run down on my process and plugins/extensions used will follow in the next few days.
Also the template I built for the new Joomla Template portal lays the groundwork for the next template release 
something for the punters to look forward to.
Leave me your thoughts on the website.
Cheers
Can’t Upload Twitter Background Image – Bug Fix
Update: This fix definitely works as I have now had around 10 people email their images to me and I have stripped meta data from their background images using Photoshop CS4, every single image has then been uploaded successfully to Twitter – however it does appear you need Photoshop CS4 to strip the meta data – I cannot advise how this can be achieved with any version prior to CS4 – if anyone knows please leave a comment or email me and I will update this.
As time allows I am also happy to strip meta from images if you email me – I cannot promise to do them all or very quickly but I will endeavor to as long as I’m not getting more than a few a day.
My method is below, and I promise you it does work as long as you correctly remove the meta data.
There is a bug currently making a few tweeters grumpy and I may have found a fix – at least it worked for me.
See my Twitter background in action: http://twitter.com/JoomlaBear
I was having trouble uploadingmy background image – Twitter would tell me that there was a problem and they were looking into it. I checked their suupport area and the problem seems to have existed for alittle while…
With a little trial and error I found that by removing metadata from the image I was able to upload without issue. Images with metadata I could not.
Simple way to do this is to open your image in photoshop and and from the File menu choose ‘Save forweb and devices’. Then select metadata = none from the dropdown.
See the image below and click to enlarge.
Twitter background image bug fix
You may also like to look at this post from Ian Lee which describes another twitter image method. And if you are interested in adding a twitter widget to your site, my friend Norman Sheppard has put together an easy option for this as well.
Joomla Bears Are Tweeting Like Birds
You can catch me on Twitter now…
I have resisted for a long time, and to be honest I’m still not sure about this whole tweeting thing… I mean really, shouldn’t we just go and visit a friend in the real world? have a cup of coffee and a yarn and tell our friends to their faces “what we are doing now?”
As if I have any more time left in the day, what with overwhelming numbers of emails filling up my inbox, clients calling day and night, and now I must tweet as well!
Still, I have noticed that Twitter does seem to be connecting groups of Joomla developers, and friends of mine who move in internet marketing circles. And perhaps there will be benefits to all of this.
