Web Design

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

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.

Configure your dashboard for inbound links

Posted on 13. Nov, 2009 by Philip in Web design

This is a bit of a tip. In order to get better feed back from your Wordpress backend hop in and configure your display for inbound links. You can show the date of the link and alter the number displayed.
Well worth having a look as most are unaware that this exists in their backend and also not looking for what others are saying about their content.

Timba Windows get a refresh

Posted on 19. Aug, 2009 by Philip in Web design

Noel Britt from Timba Windows had asked for a site design refresh after a recent flurry of business activity. An order from CERES sustainability centre for the supply of windows with a emphasis on eco friendly materials and construction has given the company a boost in sustainability construction credentials. As the project progresses information will be released by Timba Windows on their WordPress powered site. Visit Timba Windows to see the new design.

Websites and Mail down

Posted on 06. Jul, 2009 by Philip in Big Trousers News, Software, Web design

We are currently experiencing a delay in upgrading the hardware of the web server.

When all the bugs are ironed out we hope that an improvement to services will be evident but the change over has not gone as smoothly as we had hoped.

Keep an eye on this page for up to date details.

UPDATE:

It looks as though there is a DNS problem inherit in our issues here as well. The new server needs time to be seen by various ISP’s for it’s new location. Some domains are working fine and others are slower to propagate. This will resolve itself over the next few hours.

If we look at the sites hosted over different connection they are starting to appear and the good news is that the sites load a lot faster.

UPDATE 2:

It also seems that when the server was down for repair your ISP cached DNS failures. For those wishing to access mail in the interim you can see your site via anonymouse.org and use the webmail service attached to your hosting service by adding /webmail to your domain url.

UPDATE 3:

All should be getting back to normal now and the new server is a much better unit.
Twice the ram, dual SATA raided drives, faster dual multi threaded CPU – should be a noticeable difference in performance.
Still waiting on upload permissions to be sorted.

Benalla Online now online

Posted on 12. Jun, 2009 by Philip in Big Trousers News, Web design

Bruce Keogh has been working hard for 3 months or more converting his entire site to the Wordpress format.

Benalla Online is a local news/directory that grew from a few pages in html to now an extensive database of local interest.
This site is perhaps the most recent we have built that suits the Wordpress structure perfectly.

Sound Acoustics website now live

Posted on 04. May, 2009 by Philip in Big Trousers News, Web design

After a few years on an old html site James at Sound Acoustics has embraced WordPress as a Content Management System for his business.

Sound Acoustics designs, tests, maufactures and sells a range of acousctic foam panels for recording studios and home theatre rooms. This site has a Twitter Feed, Flickr link, and a shopping cart using code supplied by WP-Ecommerce.

Good luck James and get the blog going… at soundacoustics.com.au

Louie Prez goes live

Posted on 14. Apr, 2009 by Philip in Big Trousers News, Web design

New site with photography by Phil and web by Big Trousers.

Ray Pereira, Leo Dale and Doug DeVries take the passion and poetry of Brazilian guitar, add a whole truckload of percussion from West Africa and throw in some cool grooves from French heist movies. The music is composed, yet improvised. It may sound like Jazz to you, but then again!

It’s got a hell of a groove and it sure sounds sweet.

Features downloadable music sales and video all as content managed backend.
Get online and take a squizz, louieprez.com

100 Megabit Broadband for Australia

Posted on 07. Apr, 2009 by Philip in Big Trousers News, Web design

Prime Minister Rudd today announced a 43 Billion Dollar investment in a new broadband network for Australia. Due to economic conditions and the lack of private sector involvement, the Australian government is to become the major shareholder in a new company charged with the job of building a new broadband infrastructure.

This is great news for small business as most struggle with outmoded, expensive and unreliable internet connection in the current forms widely available. As businesses move to provide online services and conect with customers and suppliers through these services as a way of streamlining their business practice a reliable connection at high speed is becoming essential. Content managed web sites alone cause small business in rural areas extreme problems.

Also with private homes also benefiting from increased access to high speed broadband, the ability for business to allow customer access to media, services and general web content will be greatly improved.

Business will also find more capacity to allow employees to work from locations remote to the central office arrangement thus giving greater work flexibility. An improved environmental outcome is also a possible upside to high speed access.

Unlike the Opposition leader who thinks data connection is about wireless laptops accessing the internet, I believe data via optic fibre to houses and businesses is the way of the future. As devices in the home become data connected a local wireless network connected to a fibre modem will make more sense. Stationary devices like display screens for film and television, bedside radios with internet radio, weather, and daylight savings time server services are all do-able. Imaging your washing machine connecting to a service agent to ask for repairs, on it’s own. What if your car could “talk” to service computers online everytime it was parked in tha garage? The internet is about to become means of communication for all our technology and a hardwired network is the place to start that revolution.

wp-eCommerce spam fixed

Posted on 30. Mar, 2009 by Philip in Big Trousers News, Software, Web design

So after 5 days or so of ongoing sales spam the guys at Instinct have released a fix.

Good to hear.

Here is a full list of changes:

More fixes to stop the spamming of purchase logs
New dashboard widget
Donations widget now refreshes the cart when on the checkout page
Fixes to remove backslashes from product names with single quotation marks
Admin purchase log RSS feed fixed
Paypal Express shipping module fixed
Target Markets feature added

Download now and upgrade your installation

wp-eCommerce attacked

Posted on 28. Mar, 2009 by Philip in Big Trousers News, Software, Web design

From the 22nd of March wp-eCommerce plugin installations have been attacked by some zombie robot attack. The attack bombs an account with hundreds of false purchase’s with no product listed and $0.00 sale price.

Not a huge dilemma in a security sense but the false entries would take a user all day to delete through the backend.
We are looking at deletion through the database just to clean things up but we will wait till the version 3.6.11 proves not vulnerable to such attacks.
Here’s hoping..

Glenroy Neighbourhood Learning Centre

Posted on 26. Feb, 2009 by Philip in Web design

New site up and ready to go at Glenlink.

Glenroy Neighbourhood Learning Centre is an adult and community education organisation and neighbourhood house. As a not for profit, community owned and managed organisation, they offer many life long learning courses and activities at affordable prices. They are also committed to working with local people to improve community wellbeing. Take a look at Glenlink and see how Wordpress is setup to work for them.

Jos Van Hulsen

Posted on 24. Nov, 2008 by Philip in Web design

New website for Jos Van Hulsen Post Industrial Design.

Just the beginning with a few articles and biographical information. Soon to include an online shop for small sculptural items.

Artistic Reflections

Posted on 26. Sep, 2008 by Philip in Web design

New site for Chris this week at Artistic Reflections Pty Ltd. Chris has a growing picture framing factory and specialises is multi opening photo frames.

The new site has an online shop, CMS DIY newsletter and is all built on WordPress and CMS newsletter function enabled.

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