Big Trousers, Web, Design, Photography and new media.

The new home of Big Trousers

Posted on 14. Aug, 2010 by Philip in Big Trousers News

Just thought I would post an early warning that we are on the move. The old shop in Essex Street has served us well but we are on an expansion drive. The new place is a warehouse conversion 9 Bute Street Seddon.

Full 5 metre high photographic studio and large office floor is a bonus. We will be getting this building up to speed over the next month.

Japara Neighbourhood House gets online

Posted on 20. Apr, 2010 by Philip in Big Trousers News, Web design

After a very long wait for staff changes and committee approval the new website for Japara Neighbourhood House has gone live.
Features a CMS for event calendar

Timor Adventures

Posted on 05. Apr, 2010 by Philip in Big Trousers News, Web design

If you are looking for a trip with a difference perhaps East Timor by motorbike is your answer. Shirley and David Carlos run Timor Adventures as a small operation a few times a year guiding small groups through East Timor by motorcycle. Their new website has just gone live and includes pictures of the areas of the country their tour covers.

Ride the Worlds Newest Nation here.

Andy Steward, Forge Designs gets off the ground

Posted on 25. Mar, 2010 by Philip in Big Trousers News, Web design

After a few years messing around we get a site running on WordPress for Andy Steward.
Early days but up and about is good. Check out his new site.

Fusion Digital Print Benalla go live

Posted on 24. Mar, 2010 by Philip in Big Trousers News, Web design

After many months of strategy and design, Fusion Digital Print of Bennalla now have a new website complete with and uploader for client file.
We wish them well and hope their new site we have provided serves them well.

HD Video workflow

Posted on 18. Mar, 2010 by Philip in Big Trousers News, Digital imaging, Hardware, Photography, Software, Video

Bruce from benallaonline.com.au gets up to speed with HD video.
Includes 24 inch iMac, Canon 7D DSLR shooting 1080p video, loaded to Aperture 3 and edited in iMovie. Export at 720p and embedded from Vimeo upload.

Keynote on auto schedule shutdown-startup

Posted on 04. Mar, 2010 by Philip in Apple, Big Trousers News, Digital imaging, Hardware, Software, Video

A very recent installation job nearly went pear shaped when a new “feature” in iWork 09 Keynote stopped us from scheduling a shutdown of a kiosk style big screen sideshow on 3 screens.

The job is a display of news and coming events on 3 big screens for The West Footscray Neighborhood House. The screens run separate keynote presentations containing HD video and slideshows all with audio in 3 different locations within the center complex. Three Mac mini’s run the program files in full HD resolution and they could not be more happy with the quality of the presentations.

There were a number of hurdles to overcome however and in the interests of others trying to achieve the same result we will list solutions to some of the problems we encountered.

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Sick Australia site goes up, taste in T-Shirt design goes down.

Posted on 18. Feb, 2010 by Philip in Big Trousers News, Web design

We made live the new site built for Fang and Dome from Sick Australia T-Shirts.
Jean-Luc is the guy with the designs and is probably better known for his work on the comic Modern Gentleman, the movie Cannibal Suburbia, and his own movie productions.
A talented man with a warped mind..bring it on JL !

sickaustralia.com.au

Merry Christmas from Big Trousers

Posted on 14. Dec, 2009 by Philip in Big Trousers News

Christmas is for kids….

Louie Prez live stream from The Dog

Posted on 29. Nov, 2009 by Philip in Big Trousers News, Digital imaging, Video

The webcast from The Dog theatre went well last night and we will continue to improve our assembly of technical specifications for this type of event. The concept was for a lightweight portable and affordable two camera streaming solution.
Video to follow soon of the recorded stream.

Window Wonders record build attempt

Posted on 27. Nov, 2009 by Philip in Big Trousers News, Web design

Well after about 8 hours solid we have the rebuild for Karen at Window Wonders. Her old OsCommerce application was retired after an attack of the Trojans and a new WordPress theme installed and modified for her purpose. We shot the whole shop content on a lightbox and uploaded the product images.

Well done Karen. Take a look and let us know if we need to sleep on it and rebuild in the morning.

Trojan in Woo Themes footer code

Posted on 27. Nov, 2009 by Philip in Big Trousers News, Software, Web design

Whilst trying to fix a WordPress install, I found some errant code in the footer.php for site files installed by a client. After a bit of sluething I discovered that the Premium Woo Theme used had come from a filesharing site or had come in via bit torrent and had been altered to subject the user to potentially dangerous callback connections for information carried within the site. Now at Big Trousers we have seen this sort of thing injected into shopping carts but never before delivered via a Premium WordPress theme over file sharing.

This is a word of warning to all those who attempt the ‘something for nothing’ route and again a warning to those using a bit torrent client.

My advice is to pay WooThemes for their fine WordPress Themes. The other advantage of owning a license to your Premium theme is that it comes with a lifelong upgrade so that new improved code and bug fixes are downloadable in order to improve your site functionality. Some Themes are available from Woo for free in any event but if you are reading this to find a solution this is it.

TPG dealer code VBIGTR

Posted on 13. Nov, 2009 by Philip in Big Trousers News

Big Trousers is an authorised TPG dealer and offer account registration, support, installation and configuration for Mac and PC systems. We also offer an optional alternative hardware service that includes an on site installation using Linksys Cisco or Billion ADSL2+ modems and Apple wireless routers. Network cabling and Gigabit switches are also an option as is ongoing assistance with network troubleshooting.
Book an on site custom hardware installation
ring 03 9689 6790 or get a quote online here.

New Web Design for Big Trousers

Posted on 11. Nov, 2009 by Philip in Big Trousers News

Well it has been a year or so without a refresh, so this is it.
We are aiming to show a more corporate layout for our content and make changes to content more frequently.

MYOB frustration

Posted on 10. Jul, 2009 by Philip in Apple, Big Trousers News, Software

Due to MYOB’s current software licensing practices it is no longer possible to buy a new copy of MYOB Account Edge and upgrade your datafile unless you pay MYOB an extra $29 to remove the previous serial from your datafile. That is our current understanding at least, your experience may vary.

To do this you need to email your datafile to MYOB and sign a form with payment details included.

To avoid this procedure we recommend purchasing an upgrade to your software directly from MYOB.

Big Trousers will no longer sell MYOB software for installation on the Mac Platform as we consider this licensing model to be draconian and not one we would recommend being locked in to.

As rival software is available we will look into those alternatives.

Quickbooks has been around for a while and that may be an alternative.

Connected Precision Accounting Software may not be suitable for everyone but worth a look too.

We will continue to look for other, more Mac friendly accounting software packages and report back as they are tested.

UPDATE:

Perhaps there is a version of MoneyWorks that will prove useful and competitive?