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

After many years building e-commerce sites using platforms like OsCommerce, Shopify, WPECommerece, Magento and others, we think we finally have a solution that looks like it has all the answers. Woo Commerece. Jigoshop was a ground up build as a WordPress plugin and although it looked like it could be a great solution it was [...]

Category navigation for news, shopping carts and general page navigation is often misunderstood or completely ignored by some content managers. Andy Rutledge posted an article ( News redux )  recently that attempted to explain how news websites have gone wrong in navigation design. Worth a look even if you don’t have any news articles on [...]

Big Trousers online ticketing and support introduced today. It is designed for all customers who register  to report problems with content management, wordpress, computer hardware and software, email, photography and general IT.  Also available are articles in the knowledge base designed to assist your and your business. The web is no longer prohibited by desktop [...]

WordPress as a CMS has been of great value to most of our clients and as such is now the only web CMS we use. In this specialisation we have become aware that server requirements can be quite specific. Whilst WordPress itself is fairly straight forward requiring only reasonable hosting in the past, we have [...]

Over the last few months we have been testing various methods of achieving an effective method of speeding up page load times for WordPress for our client sites. Along with numerous site caching plugins and file optimisation we have found a Content Delivery Network (CDN) Amazon Web Services, is the best way to achieve fast [...]

This is a demo of the sort of form you can build with conditional logic. Using our Gravity Forms plugin available to those who build and host with Big Trousers, you too can use this technology to get your clients details into a database. Use it for data collection, application forms, or even some form [...]

With the current trend towards mobile devices like the iPhone, iPad and the slew of Android based systems to be released, most small businesses are struggling to find a workable solution to email. Using a regular POP3 account requires that you keep email on the POP email server as part of your web hosting account [...]

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. [...]

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

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 [...]

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.

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.

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.

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 [...]

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 ! [...]