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Every time we speak with other developers, whether they are tinkering with pre-built templates or building from the bottom up, in-browser Web Developer Tools always seems to play an important part of the conversation. They're normally brought into the conversation with the sentence "If I didn't have insert-tool-set-here I would have insert-pain-here".

With this in mind, the next Joomla! User Group Adelaide will feature a presentation on Firefox (Firebug) and Chrome Developer Tools by our resident Search Engine Optimist August Boehm.

So if you are new to developing templates or already enjoy spending hours elbows deep in CSS, come along to share your experiences with these quintessential development tools. You never know what you may learn from a room filled with web bothans.

As always, if you'd like to come, network and get some free web advice and share in some awesome company, let us know by sending myself an email to myself or tweet me.

Also, please don't forget to bring $5 donation for group pizza - the drinks and sweets are on us.

Recently, I was asked by Young Republic to create some artwork for their upcoming official launch and after working collaboratively with the Young Republic team and thrashing out some ideas together the little bird & bunting was the winner.

I received my invitation just the other day in my inbox inviting me to the Young Republic official launch party. It’s in Sydney on the 12th of July and unfortunately, I won’t be able to go because it’s in Sydney and I’m here in Adelaide with work to go to the next day. It’s all good though. I know it’ll be a fantastic night and I’m really looking forward to seeing photos of the event afterwards. I’m just really thrilled to have been asked to create something for this exciting new venture.

Our talented colleague and friend, Cohen Gum is presenting some of his amazing illustration work at his first major exhibition along with Minette Michael who is a creator and maker of really cute jewellery.

A little bit of info about the exhibition if you would like to go and experience some of the amazing work these guys produce…

The event will be held at the Urban Cow, which is located at 11 Frome St Adelaide. The Urban Cow features a new exhibition each month, dedicating a large room on their second floor for artists. The opening night will be the 6th July, at 6pm.

Joomla! 1.6 extensions by Joomtraders is the topic of this month's Joomla User Group Adelaide meeting, to be held from 6pm on the 14th of June at Alltraders.

Key Joomtraders developer Jeremy will be presenting a demo and presentation of the Joomla 1.6 beta version of allArticleAnnounce to the group.

Well hello there! This here is my first official post on the Alltraders Blog. You may call me Eli (and that's pronounced ee-lahy, by the way).

OK, so, down to business. Last week, on Tuesday the 17th at around 7pm to be precise, I did a little bit of a talk on Joomla! 1.6 template creation and I'm glad that people seemed to enjoy it! Here I am just letting you know, whether you were there or not that I have put up a little recap of what I went through on my Blog.

Check it out here: Joomla! 1.6 Template Resources

Read more to see The Hotshot Developer giving my presentation the thumbs up!

Are you a Facebook Page admin? Stumped why the "Use Facebook as ..." function doesn't allow you to post and comment on your pages as yourself? Want to make a personal opinion on your company or organisation's Facebook page but are an administrator of that page?

The feature is indeed there, and the default to always comment and post as the page is set for privacy, such that any official posts can't link to the individual's personal profile. However, differentiation is sometimes important to denote whether the comments, posts or any opinions made on the page are representative of the individual, or the company or organisation that the page represents.

So, how do I comment on a Facebook page as myself?

Well not quite cheesecake, but pavlova was the key award of choice as our newest Alltraders team member BJ recently celebrated receiving his Official Australian Citizenship.

Work stopped for a moment to mark the occasion and hear BJ's speech on his impressive history, followed by the presentation to Birendra of a large pavlova (from the Cheesecake Shop), together with perhaps the most iconic edible Australiana goodies - a platter of Vegemite. One of our managers, Vic presented BJ with the goods, which were thoroughly and enjoyably consumed within a short space of time.

From everyone at Alltraders, we congratulate you, BJ!

Security is always an important issue when you have a website on the internet. Whether it is keeping your website up to date with Joomla’s security patches or making sure your website has the correct file permissions.

One very simple but important way of keeping your site secure is by removing key distinguishable elements that make the website recognisable to the public as being powered by a particular content management system.

Removing the generator meta tag in Joomla’s code is one such part of this process. I recently wrote up a DIY article on how to remove this meta tag with possible security issues. Hop over to my blog over at hotshotdeveloper.com to find out how.

It has been brought to our attention that people are looking for the next JUGA date - sorry guys and girls.

The next Adelaide Joomla! User Group will be held here at Alltraders on Tuesday the 17th of May, 1 Hawke St Albert Park, starting at 6pm.

Eli Burford, one of our web designers, will be giving a demonstration in the basics of template creation in the new, and fantastic Joomla! 1.6.

Not too long ago, I wrote an article discussing the benefits of spending a little for several plugins that slam into the JCE (Joomla! Content Editor).

'Linking to articles/sections/categories through the [TinyMCE] editor was the equivalent of slowly scrapping your face against a brick wall – it felt like a painful, pointless exercise.'

That opinion still stands - if you are looking for the much needed extended capabilities of image, caption, video, Flash and file management in JCE, then look no further - Spend around AU $15 for the JCE and get a lot of bang for buck. If you are still using TinyMCE however (the standard WYSIWYG editor), then start off by downloading JCE for free. This is one upgrade you will not regret in the slightest.